The European Union is often depicted as a dominant global regulator. The purpose of this volume is to move beyond establishing that the EU influences global regulation towards an emphasis on the conditions with which it exerts that influence. Toward that end, it focuses on the EU's active efforts, both bilateral and multilateral, to shape regulations beyond its borders. The empirical chapters in this volume are explicitly comparative, among foreign partners, across international contexts, over time, and across issues. The more conceptual contributions posit an explanation for the EU’s choice of regulatory cooperation strategy and take stock of Market Power Europe as a dynamic conceptual framework for understanding and researching the EU as a power. Collectively, this volume advances three arguments: the utility of the EU’s regulatory power resources is context-specific; debates about what kinds of power projection the EU has been found to be, at least as currently conceived, unproductive; and that the EU’s engagement in the world is better explained through general theories of international political economy.
This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.
1. The European Union as a Global Regulator? Context and Comparison
2.
Liberalizing Trade, Not Exporting Rules: The Limits to Regulatory
Coordination in the EUs New Generation Preferential Trade Agreements
3.
Coercion with kid gloves: The European Unions role in shaping a global
regulatory framework for aviation emissions
4. Man Overboard! Was EU
influence on the Maritime Labour Convention lost at sea?
5. Putting the EU in
Its Place: Policy Strategies and the Global Regulatory Context
6. Market
Power Europe: Exploring a Dynamic Conceptual Framework
Alasdair Young is Professor of International Affairs and Jean Monnet Chair in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also Chair of the European Union Studies Association (2015-17).
