The influence of international institutions on the EU. When multilateralism hits Brussels

The contributors to this volume analyze the EU from a surprisingly rare perspective, namely by exploring how it is influenced by multilateral institutions. There has recently been a dramatic increase in interaction between the EU and multilateral institutions, yet this interaction has almost without exception been studied from the bottom-up perspective.

This volume reverses the causal arrow and shows that international institutions shape EU policies and the policy-making process, as well as acting as a source of preferences and strategies for EU stances internationally. The impact is (under certain conditions) strong and rather frequently unintended and unexpected. Sometimes the influence goes as far as to foster small-scale processes of EU integration. Scholars with expertise in different areas have contributed to this endeavour, thus allowing the volume to cover a wide range of international institutions and their effects on the EU.

Contents:

1. The influence of international institutions on the EU: a framework for analysis - Oriol Costa & Knud Erik Jørgensen
2. Less than you might think: the impact of WTO rules on EU policies - Alasdair R. Young
3. Playing into the hands of the Commission? The case of EU coordination in the ILO - Marianne Riddervold & Helene Sjursen
4. The external institutional context matters: the EU in international negotiations - Tom Delreux, Edith Drieskens, Bart Kerremans & Chad Damro
5. The influence of international institutions on access to justice in environmental matters in the EU and its Member States - Anne Wetzel
6. The influence of global internet governance institutions on the EU - George Christou & Seamus Simpson
7. Combating the financing of terrorism together? The influence of the United Nations on the European Union's financial sanctions regime - Sarah Léonard & Christian Kaunert
8. Linking up levels of governance: agencies of the European Union and their interaction with international institutions - Martijn Groenleer
9. NATO's influence on the evolution of the European Union as a security actor - Joachim A. Koops
10. The influence of the Council of Europe on the European Union: resource exchange and domain restriction as venues for inter-institutional influence - Barbara Schumacher
11. How do international institutions influence the EU? - Xinyuan Dai & Gina Martínez
12. The top-down dimension of the relationship between the EU and international institutions: taking stock - Robert Kissack
13. When multilateralism hits Brussels: generalizations and an agenda for further research - Knud Erik Jørgensen & Oriol Costa