The EU as a Global Governance Actor

Abstract

The European Union (EU) has received a lot of attention in comparative politics and International Relations scholarship regarding its institutional design and the question whether and how it can be conceptualized in terms of statehood, or (only) in terms of an international organisation (sui generis). Building on its internal complexity and the relatively late consolidation of a Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), its "actorness" in international politics is so far poorly understood. The literature has focused on defining roles of the EU, looking at Europe as a normative power, an ethical power, a trade power or a structural power. However, recent developments have raised questions concerning the nascent geopolitical nature of the EU global presence. In this context, the panel aims to analyse the evolving approaches of EU external policies dealing with emerging challenges such as climate change and the need for a green transition. To this, our panel adds an understanding of recent inter-institutional dynamics with both the European Parliament and the European Commission trying to renew their approaches of the EU external actorness. The papers on this panel look at the composition of these different EU institutions and their negotiations of external "actorness", particularly in relation to the EU contribution to global governance efforts.

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Studying the EU as a global governance actor: A nascent research agenda and its methodological challenges	View Paper Details
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