Contestation and Polarization in Global Governance: European Responses(Leuven Global Governance series)

Building a thorough and comprehensive understanding of the limits of the international rules-based liberal order across a variety of issue areas, this topical book highlights how the discourse and values inherent in these long-established political arrangements are now facing a backlash. Leading scholars examine how, with a greater dispersion of power and heterogeneity of preferences, Europe navigates a system characterized by a growing deadlock in major international institutions and a lack of compliance with international rules on global governance. Chapters analyse the challenges within international organizations and the international order itself, where the global balance of power is shifting towards a multipolar system. Challenges explored include populist-nationalist movements; rising geopolitical tensions; and growing inequality, political polarization and diminishing trust in political institutions. With the pull of global competition and rising power politics, the book identifies the limits to multilateral cooperation and the shortfalls of the traditional state-based liberal order in addressing global problems, finding a need for more diversity in governance structures to deal with increased connectivity and interdependence. Multi-disciplinary in scope, this forward-thinking book will prove vital to students and scholars of international relations, politics, and law, particularly those interested in the contestation and polarization in global governance, European responses to these challenges, and the transformation of the international liberal order.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Introduction to Contestation and Polarization in Global Governance 1 Michelle Egan, Kolja Raube, Julien Chaisse and Jan Wouters PART I CONTESTATION AND POLARIZATION IN GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AND CHANGING GLOBAL ORDERS 1 Global governance in the twenty-first century: end of the Bretton Woods moment? 18 Miles Kahler 2 Recasting world order: power politics, contestation and international institutions 38 Shawn Donnelly 3 The era of un-institutionalized regions: explaining the diminished prospects of regional integration in the twenty-first century 55 Nicolas de Zamaróczy 4 The European Union and United States in the era of shifting global order 76 Karol Chwedczuk-Szulc 5 Why create another Development Bank? China and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank 95 Tamar Gutner 6 Contesting international economic governance: the ‘people’ and trade in the Trump and Brexit rhetoric 109 Angelos Chryssogelos 7 Populists at the G20 and G7: informal cooperation in turbulent times 125 Alex Andrione-Moylan and Jan Wouters PART II CHANGING GLOBAL ORDERS AND EUROPEAN RESPONSES 8 Contesting transatlantic relations: how weaker relations influence EU foreign policies 145 Akasemi Newsome and Marianne Riddervold 9 Divide and conquer? Europe, China and policy coherence 161 Terrence Guay and Michael H. Smith 10 What role for the EU? Domestic contestation of the EU’s global role(s) in its neighbourhood 180 Magdalena Góra 11 “Don’t stop believin’”: Germany’s turn from reflexive to strategic multilateralism 197 Niklas Helwig 12 A Trump effect on European Union climate ambitions? The European Council and Council of the EU’s responses to US climate contestation 214 Katja Biedenkopf and Franziska Petri 13 Normative power Europe in the Belt and Road Initiative: challenge for constructing the self or an opportunity for changing others? 230 Xueji SU 14 Localizing the responsibility to protect: European and Brazilian perspectives 248 Jan Wouters and Francisca Costa Reis 15 The AI global order: what place for the European Union? 265 Matthieu Burnay and Alexandru Circiumaru PART III CHANGING GLOBAL TRADE ORDER AND EUROPEAN RESPONSES 16 Keep on trading in the Free World 284 Fernando Dias Simões 17 The EU and the US on investor-state dispute settlement reform 303 Emily Gilson 18 The European Union’s global actorness in the climate change era: using Sustainable Development Goals to bring China and the US together 325 Doga Ulas Eralp 19 Tackling labour rights and environmental protection through trade and Sustainable Development Chapters: the European approach 344 Iulianna Romanchyshyna 20 Reform of international investment agreements and sustainable development: contrasting the EU and Global South approaches 358 Gudrun Zagel 21 The ‘object and purpose’ and incrementalism of investment treaties: can international investment law reinvent its identity? 379 Güneş Ünüvar Index

About the Author :
Edited by Michelle Egan, Professor and Jean Monnet Chair ad personam, School of International Service and Co-Director, Transatlantic Policy Center, American University, Washington, DC, US, Kolja Raube, Associate Professor for European Governance and EU External Action, Faculty of Social Sciences, Director of the Centre for European Studies and Senior Member, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven, Jan Wouters, Full Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam EU and Global Governance, and Director of the Institute for International Law and Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium and Julien Chaisse, Professor, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong and Chairman, Asia Pacific FDI Forum, Hong Kong SAR

Review :
‘The “liberal international order” that the United States and Europe dominated not so long ago is now seriously contested through a combination of the rise of rival authoritarian powers and the ascent of nativist/populist leaders. This thoughtful and compelling volume addresses the strategic responses across policy fields that a constrained Europe is pursuing in this changing global order.’ ‘This new and important book offers a comprehensive account of the various forces that are currently at play around the globe and those that have shaped the past century, having produced the international liberal order that is faced with a myriad of pressures. Drawing on a wide range of authors, representing different backgrounds and disciplines, this book offers new insights into the challenges that we are facing today. Focusing in particular on European responses to these pressures in the global economic political order, the authors in this volume provide the reader with in-depth analyses and point to a variety of paths that lie ahead.’ ‘This book delivers a much needed and thorough analysis of the European Union in the global order. The contributors explore crucial challenges and contestation - both internal and external - facing the EU across an impressive variety of policy areas and geographical regions. These timely analyses provide essential insights and lessons for scholars and policymakers interested in a Europe that finds itself at a crossroads and needing to adapt to significant changes in the global landscape.’