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Parliamentary Cooperation and Diplomacy in EU External Relations: An Essential Companion

Parliamentary Cooperation and Diplomacy in EU External Relations: An Essential Companion

Author: Kolja Raube; Meltem Muftuler-Bac; Jan Wouters
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781786438843
Published In: May 2019
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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This insightful companion examines the role of parliaments in the external relations of the EU, a relatively under-explored topic of research in an increasingly complex international relations environment. In fact, this volume challenges the dominant perspective, demonstrating the increased networking of parliaments both within the EU and with external actors, shedding light on the growing role of parliamentary scrutiny, control and conflict mediation.

Providing a comparative overview of parliamentary action in EU external relations, this book considers both the conceptual basis of these actions and examines key case studies for empirical analysis. It situates the EU’s internal and external dimension of parliamentary cooperation in a wider context, engaging in a debate that goes beyond the EU into relationships with neighbouring regions as well as parliamentary institutions from other areas of the globe.

Advanced students and researchers of EU external relations and global governance will greatly benefit from reading this timely book. At the same time, international relations and political science scholars will also appreciate this thorough and comprehensive volume.

Introduction: A world of parliamentary relations? Parliamentary cooperation and diplomacy in EU external relations

Kolja Raube, Jan Wouters and Meltem Müftüler-Bac

PART I PARLIAMENTARY COOPERATION AND DIPLOMACY IN EU EXTERNAL RELATIONS: CONCEPTIONS AND THEORETICAL APPROACHES

1. Off or on field? – The multilevel parliamentary field of EU external relations

John Erik Fossum and Guri Rosén

2. Inter-parliamentary cooperation in the Europe Union: Towards institutionalization?

Thomas Christiansen and Afke Groen

3. Bringing transnationalism (once again) back in: Insights for the parliamentary dimension of European foreign policy

Daan Fonck and Kolja Raube

4. EU entrepreneurship, norm diffusion and the parliamentarization of regional economic organizations

Tobias Lenz

5. Rationales of inter-parliamentary cooperation in European security politics: From the Inter-Parliamentary Union to the IPC-CFSP

Wolfgang Wagner

PART II INTER-PARLIAMENTARY COOPERATION AND DIPLOMACY ARENAS IN EU EXTERNAL RELATIONS

6. How can inter-parliamentary cooperation contribute to the legitimacy of the EU as an international actor?

Christopher Lord

7. Emerging interregional parliamentarism: The case of the Baltic Assembly

Robert M. Cutler and Alexander von Lingen

8. The inter-parliamentary conferences of the European Union: Discussion forums or oversight bodies?

Ian Cooper

9. Actor, network, symbol: The Interparliamentary Conference on CFSP/CSDP

Dirk Peters

10. The European Parliament in inter-parliamentary cooperation and diplomacy

Diane Fromage

11. The parliamentary dimension of the EU rotating presidency: Bringing back national concerns through the “backdoor”?

Stelios Stavridis and Maria Gianniou

12. The NATO Parliamentary Assembly in parliamentary diplomacy

Zachary Selden and Linda Oehman

PART III INTER-PARLIAMENTARY COOPERATION AND DIPLOMACY IN THE EU’s NEIGHBOURHOOD

13. The Role of the European Parliament in the Enlargement Process Insights from Inter-Parliamentary Relations with Turkey

Seda Gürkan

14. External Europeanization through parliamentary cooperation. The EU – Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee and EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee in comparative perspective

Jakub Wodka and Agnieszka Cianciara

15. The Turkish-EU Cooperation on the Refugee Crisis: The Turkish Perceptions in the Parliamentary Debates

Ipek Demirsu and Meltem Müftüler-Bac

16. The European Parliament as a ‘normative actor’ in inter-parliamentary cooperation?

Cosima Glahn

17. The European Parliament as an agenda setter of EU policy toward its neighbourhood

Magdalena Gora

18. Servants or rivals? Uncovering the drivers and logics of the European Parliament’s diplomacy during the Ukrainian crisis

Daan Fonck

PART IV MULTILATERAL PARLIAMENTARY COOPERATION AND DIPLOMACY IN EU EXTERNAL RELATIONS AND BEYOND

19. The Euro-Latin America Parliamentary Assembly (EUROLAT): Constructing a common bi-regional agenda

Gustavo G. Müller

20. Cooperation between the European Parliament and the Parliament of Mercosur: Strategic partnership towards effective interregionalism and effective multilateralism

Ana María Moure

21. Asia and the EU: How to add a regional dimension to the parliamentary relationship

Xavier Nuttin

22. Parliamentary deliberation in inter-regional relations: Insights from the ACP-EU JPA

Sarah Delputte

23. Parliamentary cooperation within the Economic Community of West African States

Harrison Kofi Belley

24. Assessing the institutional capability of international parliamentary institutions and parliamentary networks in the Western Balkans and South East Europe

Franklin De Vrieze

25. Inter-parliamentary cooperation in post-Soviet space: Exploring blind spots of regional dynamics

Irina Petrova

PART V PARLIAMENTARY DIPLOMACY ISSUE AREAS: TRADE, ENVIRONMENT AND INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT

26. The European Parliament in EU trade relations with China: A norm and policy advocate?

Shaohua Yan

27. The European Parliament and International Climate Negotiations

Katja Biedenkopf

28. EU-Canada Relations and CETA: A Tale of Legislative Trade Diplomacy

Davor Jančić

29. MEPs as Mediators: An Emerging Trend of Parliamentary Diplomacy?

Lorinc Redei