EU and Effective Multilateralism

Edith Drieskens is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Leuven International and European Studies (LINES) at KU Leuven, Belgium. She is co-editor of The Sage Handbook of European Foreign Policy (2014).Louise G. van Schaik is Senior Research Fellow at the Clingendael Institute In The Hague. She is author of EU Effectiveness and Unity in Multilateral Negotiations: More than the Sum of Its Parts? (2013).

• 1. Introduction: A Framework for Analysing Effective Multilateralism, Edith Drieskens 2. The EU’s search for effective participation at the UN General Assembly and UN Security Council, Edith Drieskens, Laura Van Dievel and Yf Reykers 3. The EU's Role Playing in the Act of a More Effective WHO, Louise van Schaik and Samantha Battams 4. The role of the EU in the reform of the FAO: Bridge builder or structural engineer?, Robert Kissack 5. The EU and Multilateralism in the Environmental Field: UNEP Reform and External Representation in Environmental Negotiations, Tom Delreux 6. Discreet Effectiveness: The EU and the ICC, Laura Davis 7. Effective multilateralism in the IAEA: Changing best practice, Johanne Grøndahl Glavind 8.From ‘Effective’ to ‘Selective Multilateralism’: The European Union's Relations with NATO, Margriet Drent 9.Effective Multilateralism Between Unequal Partners: The EU in the OSCE, Niels van Willigen 10. Between effective multilateralism and multilateralism light: The EU in the G8, Judith Huigens and Arne Niemann 11. Effective minilateralism: The EU’s pragmatic embracement of the G20, Peter Debaere, Dries Lesage and Jan Orbie 12.Conclusion: The Compatibility of Internal and Eexternal Reform, Edith Drieskens