The Performance of the EU in International Institutions

ISBN-13: 9780415622394 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 176 str.

Sebastian Oberthur; Knud Erik J. Rgensen; Jamal Shahin

Opis

This text focuses on the role of the EU in decision-making within international organizations and regimes as a major locus of global governance. The book unpacks the concept of EU performance into four core elements: effectiveness; efficiency; relevance; and financial/resource viability.

Spis treści

1. Assessing the EU’s Performance in International Institutions – Conceptual Framework and Core Findings  2. The Legal Framework for the Participation of the European Union in International Institutions  3. The EU at the World Bank: Institutional and Policy Performance  4. The Performance of the European Union in the International Labour Organization  5. The European Union’s Performance in the International Climate Change Regime  6. The European Union’s Performance in the International Telecommunication Union  7. The EU’s Performance in the World Health Organization: Internal Cramps after the ‘Lisbon cure’  8. The Rise and Fall(?) of the EU’s Performance in the Multilateral Trading System  9. The EU's Performance in the United Nations Security Council 10. The EU’s Performance with and within NATO: Assessing Objectives, Outcomes and Organisational Practices

O autorze

Sebastian Oberthür is Academic Director of the Institute for European Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Recent publications include Managing Institutional Complexity: Regime Interplay and Global Environmental Change (MIT Press, 2011). Knud Erik Jørgensen is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University. Previous publications include The European Union and International Organisations (Routledge, 2008). Jamal Shahin is Assistant Professor in the Department of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, and Senior Fellow at the Institute for European Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.Previous publications includeThe Idea of aUnited Europe: Political, Economic and Cultural IntegrationSince the Fall of the Berlin Wall(Macmillan, 2000).