The EU's Role in Global Governance: The Legal Dimension
Bart Van Vooren, Steven Blockmans, and Jan Wouters
Abstract
For years the European Union has been looked on as a potential model for cosmopolitan governance, and enjoyed considerable influence on the global stage. The EU has a uniquely strong and legally binding mission statement to pursue international relations on a multilateral basis, founded on the progressive development of international law. The political vision was for the EU to export its values of the rule of law and sophisticated governance mechanisms to the international sphere. Globalization and the financial crisis have starkly illustrated the limits of this vision, and the EU's dependence ... More
For years the European Union has been looked on as a potential model for cosmopolitan governance, and enjoyed considerable influence on the global stage. The EU has a uniquely strong and legally binding mission statement to pursue international relations on a multilateral basis, founded on the progressive development of international law. The political vision was for the EU to export its values of the rule of law and sophisticated governance mechanisms to the international sphere. Globalization and the financial crisis have starkly illustrated the limits of this vision, and the EU's dependence on global forces partially beyond the control of traditional provinces of law. This book takes stock of the EU's role in global governance. It asks: to what extent can and does the EU shape and influence the on-going re-ordering of legal processes, principles, and institutions of global governance, in line with its optimistic mission statement? With this ambitious remit it covers the legal-institutional and substantive aspects of global security, trade, environmental, financial, and social governance. Across these topics this book has taken the central question of the extent of the EU's influence on global governance, providing a broad view across the key areas as well as a detailed analysis of each.
Keywords:
European Union,
cosmopolitan governance,
international law,
financial crisis,
globalization,
global governance
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199659654 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2013 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199659654.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Bart Van Vooren, editor
Assistant Professor of European Law and Integration, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen and Associate Fellow, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies
Steven Blockmans, editor
Senior Research Fellow and Head of Unit EU Foreign Policy, Centre for European Policy Studies, Professor of EU External Relations and Governance, University of Amsterdam, and Visiting Professor at the University of Leuven
Jan Wouters, editor
Jean Monnet Chair, EU and Global Governance, Professor of International Law and International Organizations, and Director of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, University of Leuven
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