The EU’s Role in Fighting Global Imbalances - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1784716723 ISBN 13: 9781784716721

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

The EU's Role in Fighting Global Imbalances looks at the role of the European Union in addressing some of the greatest challenges of our time: poverty, protectionism, climate change, and human trafficking. The recent crisis has depleted the Union s economic and political resources. At the same time the Union is, like never before, expected to confront these global challenges on the world political arena, where new regional power centres are establishing themselves. Based on a broad and interdisciplinary understanding of the concept of global imbalances, this book argues that these challenges follow from pervasive global imbalances, which at root are economic, political, and legal in character.

Contributions from ten leading scholars in the fields of economics, law, and political science provide in-depth analyses of three key dimensions of EU foreign policy, namely: the internal challenges facing the EU, as its 28 member countries struggle to coordinate their actions; the external challenges facing the EU on the global arena, in areas where global imbalances are particularly pervasive, and where measures taken by the Union can have an important impact; and the EU´s performance on the global arena, in the eyes of other key actors.

This policy-oriented, interdisciplinary volume offers real insight into the European Union and its role in global affairs and will appeal to academics and policy-makers alike.

Contributors: L. Aggestam, A.Bakardjieva Engelbrekt, A. Bigsten, S. Bogojevi , O. Elgström, M. Henrekson, A. Jonsson Cornell, A. Kokko, M. Mårtensson, A. Moberg, L. Oxelheim, T. Persson, T. Sanandaji, A. Schmidt-Felzmann

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Edited by Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt, Professor of European Law and Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg Professor of Legal Science (2015–2018), Stockholm University, Moa Mårtensson, PhD, Researcher, Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden, Lars Oxelheim, Professor, School of Business and Law, University of Agder (UiA), Kristiansand, Norway, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm and Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM), Lund, Sweden and Thomas Persson, Associate Professor, Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784716723
• ISBN 13: 9781784716721
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Bakardjieva Engelbrekt Antonina, Mårtensson Moa, Oxelheim Lars, Persson Thomas