EU’s Role in Fighting Global Imbalances

Edited by Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt, Professor of European Law and Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg Professor of Legal Science (2015–2018), Stockholm University, Moa Mårtensson, PhD, Researcher, Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden, Lars Oxelheim, Professor, School of Business and Law, University of Agder (UiA), Kristiansand, Norway, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm and Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM), Lund, Sweden and Thomas Persson, Associate Professor, Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden

• Contents: 1. The EU and Global InbalancesAntonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt, Moa Mårtensson, Lars Oxelheim and Thomas Persson2. Transformative Power or Political Dwarf? European Leadership and Global ImbalancesLisbeth Aggestam3. The Role of Aid in Reducing Global Imbalances: The EU and AfricaArne Bigsten4. Superentrepreneurship and Global Inbalances: Closing Europe’s Gap to Other Industrialised RegionsMagnus Henrekson and Tino Sanandaji5. Global Imbalances in Climate Protection, Leadership Ambitions and EU Climate Change LawSanja Bogojević6. Human Trafficking as a Result of Global Imbalances: The Role of the European UnionAnna Jonsson Cornell7. Can the European Union Use Agreements to Even Out the Global Imbalance in the Protection of Human Rights?Andreas Moberg8. The Imbalances Between the European Union and ChinaAri Kokko9. The EU’s Relations With Russia: Off Balance and Beyond Repair?Anke Schmidt-Felzmann10. External Perceptions of the EU: Obstacle or Asset in the Fight Against Global Imbalances?Ole ElgströmIndex

‘This collection of chapters constitutes a highly valuable and informed input to the debate on the European Union’s present and potential role in the shaping of our common future. Together, the contributors take a comprehensive perspective covering legal, political and economic imbalances in the world that are of acute relevance for the possibilities to effectively tackle challenges common to us all, such as climate change, poverty, trafficking and the supply of scarce fundamental commodities. To what extent can the European Union be a constructive force in ameliorating these imbalances, and thereby in world politics, and how ought it to proceed?’