EU Presence in International Organizations

Spyros Blavoukos is Lecturer at the Department of International and European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics and Business. Dimitris Bourantonis is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Athens University of Economics and Business. His previous books include The History and Politics of UN Security Council Reform (Routledge, 2006) and The UN’s Role in Nuclear Disarmament Negotiations, (Dartmouth, 1993).

• 1. Introduction: The EU Presence in International Organizations Spyros Blavoukos and Dimitris Bourantonis 2. EU Contribution to and Cooperation with Multilateral Organizations Emil J. Kirchner 3. The European Union and NATO: Subordinate Partner, Cooperative Pillar, Competing Pole? James Sperling 4. The EU as a Security Actor: In and with the UN and NATO Hanna Ojanen 5. The Big Three and the High Representative: Dilemmas of Leadership Inside and Outside the EU Christopher Hill 6. The EU, the US and International Organizations: Trade Politics in the Global Political Economy Michael Smith 7. Effective Multilateralism on Trial: EU Compliance with WTO Law Alasdair R. Young 8. The European Commission in the WTO’s DDA Negotiations. A Tale of an Agent, a Single Undertaking, and Twenty-Seven Nervous Principals Bart Kerremans 9. Commonwealth and the European Union: A Multilateralism of International Institutions Paul Taylor 10. Conclusions Spyros Blavoukos and Dimitris Bourantonis

"Written by an impressive group of established experts and firmly grounded in empirical research, the volume contains a mine of information that will be useful for future research along these lines. Both the collective authority of the contributors and the empirical depth of their contributions make this volume a timely and welcome complement to the literature on the EU as an international actor." - Edith Drieskens, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy 6, 2011