The European Union at the United Nations: Intersecting Multilateralisms

✍ Scribed by Katie Verlin Laatikainen, Karen E. Smith (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 240
• Series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is the first book to examine in-depth the EU's relationship with the UN and to analyze critically the EU's contribution to 'effective multilateralism'. The contributors show that the EU most often fails to make the UN as effective as it should be in addressing global challenges.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction — The European Union at the United Nations: Leader, Partner or Failure?....Pages 1-23
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
EU Representation and Coordination within the United Nations....Pages 27-46
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
The European Powers in the Security Council: Differing Interests, Differing Arenas....Pages 49-69
Pushing Soft Power: Middle Power Diplomacy at the UN....Pages 70-91
Returned to Europe? The Central and East European Member States at the Heart of the European Union....Pages 92-111
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Effective Multilateralism and Collective Security: Empowering the UN....Pages 115-132
The EU in Geneva: Coordinating Policy in the Economic and Social Arrangements of the United Nations System....Pages 133-153
The European Union, Human Rights and the United Nations....Pages 154-174
EU-UN Environmental Relations: Shared Competence and Effective Multilateralism....Pages 175-192
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
Intersecting Multilateralisms: The European Union and Multilateral Institutions....Pages 195-211
Back Matter....Pages 212-232

✦ Subjects

European Union Politics;Political Science;International Relations;International Organization