Table of Contents
List of illustrations, List of contributors, List of abbreviations, Introduction, PART I: European studies and global governance, 1. Obsolete if obstinate? Transforming European Union studies in the transnational era, 2. When a fusing Europe and a globalizing world meet?, 3. The European Union as an emerging global actor, 4. The European Union in the world: Critical theories, 5. European integration, global governance and international relations, PART II: Institutions, 6. The European Commission: How the European Commission constructed European Union governance policy and how it attempts to export it, 7. The European Parliament, 8. The Council: How the member states agree on Europe’s external policies, 9. The European Council and the presidency, 10. The European Court of Justice and external relations: Internationalist objectives or integrationist priorities?, PART III: Policy and issue areas, 11. Global governance and the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union, 12. The European Union and global environmental governance, 13. The Common Commercial Policy and global economic governance, 14. Global governance and the Common Agricultural Policy, 15. Development policy: The European Union as a bilateral and multilateral donor, 16. European Union accession policy, 17. The ‘European’ ‘Neighbourhood’ ‘Policy’: A holistic account, 18. The European Union and conflict transformation, PART IV: The global multilevel governance complex and the European Union, 19. The European Union, its Common Commercial Policy, and the World Trade Organization, 20. European Union-United Nations co-operation in conflict and development, 21. The European Union and interregionalism, 22. The European Union and East Asia, 23. The European Union and Africa: Partnership, governance and (re-)evolving relations, 24. The European Union and Latin America, 25. The European Union, the USA and global governance, 26. The European Union and Russia, 27. The European Union and Eastern Europe, 28. The European Union’s emerging relations with Central Asia: A test case for European Union foreign policy, 29. The European Union and the Mediterranean, 30. The European Union and subregional co-operation, 31. Civil society in an integrating Europe, References and bibliography, Index