This book examines the ability of the EU and European actor networks to coherently and effectively navigate, manage, and influence debates and policy on the international stage. It also questions whether increasing complexity across a range of critical global issues and networks has affected this ability.
Engaging with the growing theoretical and conceptual literature on networks and complexity, the book provides a deeper understanding of how the European Union and European actors navigate within global networks and complex regimes across a range of regulatory, policy cooperation, and foreign and security policy issue areas. It sheds light on how far they are able to respond to and shape solutions to some of the most pressing challenges on the global agenda in the 21st century.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of EU/European and global networks and more broadly to European and EU studies, Global Governance, International Relations, International Political Economy, and Foreign Policy and Security Studies.
Introduction: Networks, complexity, and the global order PART 1: Conceptualising Networks in the Face of Complexity 1. Networks, transnational networks, and global order 2. World politics as a complex system: Analyzing governance complexity with network approaches 3. Controlling governance issues in professional-organizational networks PART 2: Case Studies in Global Networks and European Actors 4. Ruling in a complex world: Private regulatory networks and the export of European data protection rules 5. Navigating an emerging knowledge structure: Where does the EU stand on sustainable finance? 6. The rise of the EU in international tax policy 7. Transnational networks of the sovereign debt restructuring regime 8. Environmental governance networks: Climate change and biodiversity 9. Global complexity, civil society, and networks 10. Multi-level diplomacy in Europe in the digital century: The case of science diplomacy 11. European Union networking against transnational crime 12. Conclusions: Global Complexity, Networks, and the Role of EU and European Actors
George Christou is Professor of European Politics and Security at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK. Jacob Hasselbalch is Assistant Professor at the Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
Reviews for Global Networks and European Actors: Navigating and Managing Complexity
This book widens the horizon of international studies by highlighting the rise of networks. This is particularly interesting since in recent years we spoke more about global disorder, witnessing attacks on multilateral organisations and declining resilience to financial crises, but also health emergencies. Reaching out to taxation, science diplomacy as well as anti-crime cooperation, this volume highlights a new dimension, with particular attention to the role and potential of European actors. Laszlo Andor, Secretary General of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies.
