Parliamentary diplomacy in European and global governance / / edited by Stelios Stavridis and Davor Jančić.

• Superior document: Diplomatic studies ; Volume 13
• TeilnehmendeR: Stavridis, Stelios,; Jančić, Davor,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Diplomatic studies ; Volume 13.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 393 pages)

In Parliamentary Diplomacy in European and Global Governance , 27 experts from all over the world analyse the fast-expanding phenomenon of parliamentary diplomacy. Through a wealth of empirical case studies, the book demonstrates that parliamentarians and parliamentary assemblies have an increasingly important international role. The volume begins with parliamentary diplomacy in Europe, because the European Parliament is one of the strongest autonomous institutional actors in world politics. The study then examines parliamentary diplomacy in relations between Europe and third countries or regions (Mexico, Turkey, Russia, the Mediterranean), before turning attention to the rest of the world: North and South America, Asia, Africa and Australia. This pioneering volume confirms the worldwide nature and salience of parliamentary diplomacy in contemporary global politics.

Table of Contents

Introduction : the rise of parliamentary diplomacy in international politics / Stelios Stavridis and Davor Jančić -- World diplomacy of the European Parliament / Davor Jančić -- The role of the European Parliament president in parliamentary diplomacy / Luigi Gianniti and Nicola Lupo -- The diplomatic role of the European Parliament's standing committees, delegations and assemblies : insights from ACP-EU inter-parliamentary cooperation / Sarah Delputte, Cristina Fasone and Fabio Longo -- The diplomatic role of the European Parliament's political groups in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Yoav Shemer-Kunz -- The international role of the European Parliament's intergroups / Laurent Dutoit -- The EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee and Turkey's EU accession process / Valentina Rita Scotti -- The impact of parliamentary diplomacy, civil society and human rights advocacy on EU strategic partners : the case of Mexico / Monica Velasco Pufleau -- A bridge with Russia? : the parliamentary assemblies of the OSCE and of the Council of Europe in the Russia-Ukraine crisis / Andrea Gawrich -- The south-east European cooperation process and its new parliamentary assembly : regional dialogue in action / Franklin De Vrieze -- The Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean and its contribution to democracy promotion and crisis management / Andrea Cofelice -- Parliamentary diplomacy and the US Congress : the case of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly / Zlatko Sabic -- Challenges for parliamentary diplomacy in South and South-East Asia and Europe : a practitioner's perspective / Xavier Nuttin -- Parliamentary diplomacy in the Chinese constitution and foreign policy / Wang Liwan -- Parliamentary diplomacy in northeast Asia : lessons from the Parliamentarians' Unions in Japan and South Korea / Jiun Bang -- Australia's parliamentary diplomacy : a study of the bilateral relationship with South Korea / Jeffrey Robertson -- Regional integration and parliamentary diplomacy : experiences of the MERCOSUR, Andean and Latin American Parliaments / Karina L. Pasquariello Mariano, Regiane Nitsch Bressan and Bruno Theodoro Luciano -- Understanding success and failure in the quest for peace : the Pan-African Parliament and the Amani Forum / Konstantinos Magliveras and Asteris Huliaras -- South Africa's parliamentary diplomacy and the 'African agenda' / Lesley Masters and Fritz Nganje -- Conclusions : parliamentary diplomacy as a global phenomenon / Stelios Stavridis.