United We Stand? The European Union's International Actorness in the Cases of the International Criminal Court and the Kyoto Protocol*

Groenleer, Martijn; Schaik, Louise G. van

doi:10.1111/j.1468-5965.2007.00756.x

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“…By focusing on which actors are recognized as leaders by UNFCCC negotiation participants, and why, this study seeks to make an important contribution to leadership theory which hitherto has been focused nearly exclusively on the supply-side of leadership and the words and deeds of would-be leaders (Ringius 1999;Gupta and Ringius 2001;Vogler 2005;Groenleer and Van Schaik 2007;Schreurs and Tiberghien 2007). To fully understand the role played by leadership in international climate change negotiations it is, of course, valuable to have a firm understanding of what aspiring leaders actually say and do in their efforts to affect the behavior of other actors.…”

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The Legitimacy of Leadership in International Climate Change Negotiations

Karlsson

Hjerpe

Parker

et al. 2012

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Leadership is an essential ingredient in reaching international agreements and overcoming the collective action problems associated with responding to climate change. In this study, we aim at answering two questions that are crucial for understanding the legitimacy of leadership in international climate change negotiations. Based on the responses of three consecutive surveys distributed at COPs 14-16, we seek first to chart which actors are actually recognized as leaders by climate change negotiation participants. Second, we aim to explain what motivates COP participants to support different actors as leaders. Both these questions are indeed crucial for understanding the role, importance, and legitimacy of leadership in the international climate change regime. Our results show that the leadership landscape in this issue area is fragmented, with no one clear-cut leader, and strongly suggest that it is imperative for any actor seeking recognition as climate change leader to be perceived as being devoted to promoting the common good.

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The Legitimacy of Leadership in International Climate Change Negotiations

Karlsson

Hjerpe

Parker

et al. 2012

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“…Subsequently, acknowledging this accidental consensus, support of the ICC became an aspect of the EU's international identity and coordination efforts were enhanced. The European position changed from accidental to precious, especially when the EU came under attack from abroad, the Bush Administration not least (Groenleer and Rijks, 2009;Groenleer and van Schaik, 2005).…”

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confidence: 97%

The European Union as a Diplomatic Actor

Koops¹,

MacAj

2015

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Please respect intellectual property rightsThis material is copyright and its use is restricted by our standard site license terms and conditions (see http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/connect/info/terms_conditions.html).plan to copy, distribute or share in any format including, for the avoidance of doubt, posti websites, you need the express prior permission of Palgrave Macmillan. To request perm please contact rights@palgrave.com.'This volume provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the EU's growing role as a diplomatic actor, covering policies, processes and outcome in key foreign policy fields. It is one of the first attempts to systematically evaluate the build-up of the EU's diplomatic capacity in the post-Lisbon era and is therefore a must-read for all interested in recent changes of EU diplomatic actorness. I find the volume's ambition to link the changing diplomatic role of the EU to the changing nature of modern diplomacy especially interesting.' -Ole Elgström, Professor of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden 'As one of the most complex and constantly evolving international actors on the planet, the EU poses a major challenge for those interested in understanding its global purpose and political capabilities. Different perspectives and conceptual tools are often necessary to complete the picture, and this volume combines both in a wide-ranging treatment of how the EU behaves as a diplomatic actor. It also draws upon insights from both practitioners and scholars to explain the considerable variance across different EU foreign policy domains despite the best efforts of the EU to make itself more coherent.' -Michael E. Smith, Professor and Chair in International Relations, University of Aberdeen, Scotland 'Based on contributions by an excellent international team consisting of both senior and junior academics as well as knowledgeable practitioners, this incisive volume both fills a vacuum and provides the most up to date overview of the growing role of the EU as a diplomatic actor in the post-Lisbon era.' -Walter Carlsnaes, Senior Professor (emeritus), Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden 'This volume underlines that the role of the EU within the emerging multipolar and fragmented world is slowly gaining in importance after the Treaty of Lisbon (2009) -despite external obstacles as well as internal deficits of consistency and coherence. The action of the EU as an unprecedented diplomatic actor and of the EEAS are analysed in an accurate and comprehensive way in the main policy fields of trade, human rights, climate change, and finance, with special attention given to the EU's impact within multilateral organizations and regimes. This panel of contributors offers fresh analyses and contributes to enriching the literature on a crucial issue in EU studies and international relations.' Thanks to consecutive rounds of enlargement and the stepwise broadening and deepening of internal integration, the EU now undeniably plays a key role in international politics, law and economics. At...

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“…In negotiations on climate change, the EU is mostly represented by the Presidency, assisted by the next Presidency and the Commission (together the ''troika'') (Groenleer & van Schaik, 2005;van Schaik & Egenhofer, 2005). The Presidency, as lead negotiator, expresses a common position that has been agreed on by the member states in the Council and by the representatives of the member states during the international negotiations.…”

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confidence: 99%