The Influence of International Institutions on the EU - (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics) by O Costa & K Jørgensen (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

An exploration of how the EU is influenced by multilateral institutions. There has recently been a dramatic increase in interaction between the EU and multilateral institutions. This book shows that international institutions shape EU policies, as well as acting as a source of preferences and strategies for EU stances internationally.

Review Quotes

'Whereas the 'Brussels effect' stresses the influence of the European Union on policies around the world, this book innovatively turns the tables around and asks how international institutions such as the ILO, the WTO and NATO influence the EU itself. Arguing that international institutions help Brussels pressure member states to adopt policies they might oppose, it suggests that the EU is more open to such outside influence when this expands Brussels's own governance spheres. The Influence of International Institutions on the EU thus opens up an array of new questions and ideas about the EU in the world.'

- Judith Kelley, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Duke Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, USA

'Most scholarship on the EU is surprisingly inward-oriented. It looks at the emergence of EU institutions and policies and their effects on member states. There is also increasing work on the diffusion of EU institutions and policies outside Europe. But there isalmost no literature on external influences on the EU itself. This book fills this gap. It investigates through detailed case studies the influence of multilateral institutions on the EU itself. An extremely important contribution to EU studies and to our understanding of international institutions in general!'

- Thomas Risse, Professor of International Politics, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

About the Author

GEORGE CHRISTOU Associate Lecturer in European Politics at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK XINYUAN DAI Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA CHAD DAMRO Senior Lecturer of Politics and IR and Co-Director of the Europa Institute at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is also Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium TOM DELREUX Associate Professor in Political Science at the Institut de Sciences Politiques Louvain-Europe, at the UCLouvain, Belgium EDITH DRIESKENS Assistant Professor of International Relations, Katholieke Universiteit, Belgium MARTIJN GROENLEER Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University, the Netherlands CHRISTIAN KAUNERT Lecturer in European Politics and International Relations at the University of Salford, UK, and Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow at the European University Institute Florence, Italy BART KERREMANS Professor of International Political Economy and American Politics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium ROBERT KISSACK Junior Professor at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), Spain JOACHIM A. KOOPS Assistant Professor of Political Science and Academic Director of the European Peace & Security Studies (EPSS) Programme at Vesalius College, Free University of Brussels (VUB), Belgium SARAH LÉONARD Lecturer inInternational Security at the University of Salford, UK GINA MARTINEZ Ph.D. student, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA MARIANNE RIDDERVOLD Research Fellow at ARENA, Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway SEAMUS SIMPSON Professor of Media Policy in the School of Media, Music and Performance at the University of Salford, UK HELENE SJURSEN Research Professor at ARENA Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway BARBARA SCHUMACHER PhD candidate at the Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany ANNE WETZEL Researcher at the Centre for EU Studies at Ghent University, Belgium ALASDAIR R. YOUNG Associate Professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA