The European Union's Engagement with Transnational Policy Networks

ISBN-13: 9781138309425 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 170 str.

Stephen Kingah; Vivien Ann Schmidt; Wang Yong

Opis

This book explores the channels of influence as between the European Union and transnational policy networks. It presents some of the tensions in decision making especially between efficiency in decision making and the amenability of such a process to popular oversight or legitimacy. It was published as a special issue of Contemporary Politics.

Spis treści

1. Setting the scene: the European Union’s engagement with transnational policy networks 2. Assessing the European Union’s Engagement with transnational policy networks on conflict-prone natural resources 3. The European Union and transnational health policy networks: a case study of interaction with the Global Fund 4. The European Union and its energy security challenges: engagement through and with networks 5. Transnational policy networks and the European Union’s energy policy 6. Energy Security in China – European Union relations: framing further efforts of collaboration 7. Transnational policy networks in the migration field: a challenge for the European Union 8. The European Union’s networked approach to human trafficking 9. Regulating money laundering for terrorism financing: EU-US transnational policy networks and the financial action task force 10. The EU in transnational climate networks: the case of the partnership for market readiness 11. The European Union’s role in networks on removal of fossil fuel subsidies and disclosure of climate change information

O autorze

Stephen Kingah is research fellow, United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies, Bruges, Belgium. He previously served as an ad hoc administrator in the European Union Commission. Recent publications include Access to Medicines and Vaccines in the South: Coherence of Rules and Policies Applied by the European Commission (2011) and Global and Regional leadership of BRICS countries(2015).

Vivien Schmidt is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, founding director of the Center for the Study of Europe, director of the Center of International Relations and Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University.

Wang Yong is Professor at the School of International Studies and the director of the Center for International Political Economy, Peking University.