2020
DOI: 10.1080/23340460.2021.1885988
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“United we stand, divided we fall”. The effects of US contestation on EU foreign climate policy ambition

Abstract: A number of key governments' active diplomacy and leadership, including the European Union (EU) and the United States of America (USA), drove the adoption of the Paris Agreement on climate change in December 2015. Less than two years later, international climate politics looked very different: Former key proponents strongly contested climate policy, most prominently exemplified by President Trump's 2017 announcement to withdraw the USA from the Paris Agreement. Our analysis focuses on the EU's response to this… Show more

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“…Above that, several contributions stressed that internal contestation is often linked to populist actors and parties (e.g. Petri & Biedenkopf, 2021). Future research should analyse how the role of these various internal EU and external actors played out in other cases of EUFP and if by analysing them in parallel, alliances between these actors can be identified.…”
Section: Cross-case Lessons On Eu Foreign Policy Contestationmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Above that, several contributions stressed that internal contestation is often linked to populist actors and parties (e.g. Petri & Biedenkopf, 2021). Future research should analyse how the role of these various internal EU and external actors played out in other cases of EUFP and if by analysing them in parallel, alliances between these actors can be identified.…”
Section: Cross-case Lessons On Eu Foreign Policy Contestationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The two categories of internal and external factors leading to contestation are by no means antithetical, and contestation might result from both internal and external stimuli. Indeed, Petri and Biedenkopf (2021) show the impact of the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on internal EU climate ambitions. While on the one hand, the external contestation stimulus raised ambitions, on the other hand, it also strengthened the more climate sceptic political parties inside the European Parliament.…”
Section: Causes Of Contestationmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…International commitments are pivotal in the fight against climate change. The Paris Agreement, a landmark international treaty adopted in 2015, exemplifies global efforts to combat climate change [10]. The agreement's central aim is to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius, preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels [11].…”
Section: The Role Of International Commitments In Climate Change Miti...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The EU also circumvented the White House to engage with sub‐state actors such as the State of California. On the rhetorical level, too, the EU engaged in containment of the US contestation of multilateral climate policy (Petri and Biedenkopf 2020). The EU's initial response to the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement has thus been largely successful.…”
Section: The Eu's Efforts To Sustain Multilateral Institutions Since ...mentioning
confidence: 99%