European Union's Emerging International Identity

Henri de Waele, Ph.D. (2009) in Law, Radboud University Nijmegen, is Associate Professor of European Law at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and currently also serves as Guest Professor of European Institutional Law at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.Jan-Jaap Kuipers, Ph.D (2011) in Law, European University Institute, is an Associate at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek in Amsterdam. He has published extensively on issues relating to civil cooperation within the European Union.

• AcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsAbbreviationsChapter 1The Emerging International Identity of the European Union – Some Preliminary ObservationsHenri de Waele and Jan-Jaap KuipersChapter 2Identity and Difference: The EU and the UN as Part of Each OtherGeert De Baere and Esa PaasivirtaChapter 3Arma fero, ergo sum? The European Union, NATO and the Quest for ‘European Identity’Joris LarikChapter 4EU Identity from the Perspective of the WTO – The Spillover Effects of the Union’s Internal Market in the International Trading ArenaTamara PerišinChapter 5Fraternal Twins: The European Union and the Council of EuropeThomas StreinzChapter 6The EU-ILO Partnership and the Global Identity of the Union’s Social ModelRudi DelarueChapter 7The European Union and the Hague Conference on Private International Law – Forced Marriage or Fortunate Partnership?Jan-Jaap KuipersChapter 8The EU’s International Identity – The Curious Case of the OECDJoren Verschaeve and Tamara TakácsChapter 9The EU and the IMF: The Financial Crisis as a Catalyst for a Stronger Union Representation?Laura PuccioChapter 10‘Name Me Your Friends, and I Will Tell You Who You Are’ – The EU and its Member States in the Global ArenaHenri de WaeleIndex

"[...]the book offers a comprehensive overview of the EU’s presence in the global arena. As mentioned on several occasions in the book itself, the analysis does not permit a far-reaching conclusions. However, this is an interesting read for those looking to get an overall view of the EU as an actor on the international scene [...].The title of the book therefore covers the subject well: the book describes the status quo of the EU’s identity in the international arena, mainly written from a legal perspective, and indeed, as the editors intended, provides an (at least partial) overview of the EU’s accomplishments in the eyes of others." Common Market Law Review, 2016