Contestation and polarization in global governance : : European responses / / edited by Michelle Egan [and three others].

• Superior document: Leuven Global Governance
• TeilnehmendeR: Egan, Michelle P.; Edward Elgar Publishing,
• Place / Publishing House: Northampton : : Edward Elgar Publishing,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Leuven global governance.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (418 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

Building a thorough and comprehensive understanding of the limits of the international rules-based liberal order across a variety of issue areas, this topical book highlights how the discourse and values inherent in these long-established political arrangements are now facing a backlash, and how Europe is responding towards it.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Contestation and polarization in global governance and changing global orders -- 1. Global governance in the twenty-first century: end of the Bretton Woods moment? -- 2. Recasting world order: power politics, contestation and international institutions -- 3. The era of un-institutionalized regions: explaining the diminished prospects of regional integration in the twenty-first century -- 4. The European Union and United States in the era of shifting global order -- 5. Why create another development bank? China and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank -- 6. Contesting international economic governance: the 'people' and trade in the Trump and Brexit rhetoric -- 7. Populists at the G20 and G7: informal cooperation in turbulent times -- Part II Changing global orders and European responses -- 8. Contesting transatlantic relations: how weaker relations influence EU foreign policies -- 9. Divide and conquer? Europe, China and policy coherence -- 10. What role for the EU? Domestic contestation of the EU's global role(s) in its neighbourhood -- 11. "Don't stop believin'": Germany's turn from reflexive to strategic multilateralism -- 12. A Trump effect on European Union climate ambitions? The European Council and Council of the EU's responses to US climate contestation -- 13. Normative power Europe in the Belt and Road Initiative: challenge for constructing the self or an opportunity for changing others? -- 14. Localizing the responsibility to protect: European and Brazilian perspectives -- 15. The AI global order: what place for the European Union? -- Part III Changing global trade order and European responses -- 16. Keep on trading in the Free World -- 17. The EU and the US on investor-state dispute settlement reform.

18. The European Union's global actorness in the climate change era: using Sustainable Development Goals to bring China and the US together -- 19. Tackling labour rights and environmental protection through trade and Sustainable Development Chapters: the European approach -- 20. Reform of international investment agreements and sustainable development: contrasting the EU and Global South approaches -- 21. The 'object and purpose' and incrementalism of investment treaties: can international investment law reinvent its identity? -- Index.