The rise to power of such countries as China and Brazil, as well as the EU sovereign debt crisis, have deeply affected the capacity of the EU to influence global realities. This book brings together prominent legal scholars and practitioners to investigate the extent to which the EU can shape this on-going re-orientation of the international scene.

1. The Legal Dimension of Global Governance: What Role for the EU? ; PART I: THE EU AS A LEGAL POWER IN GLOBAL GOVERNANCE? ; 2. Entrenching Global Governance: The EU's Constitutional Objectives Caught Between a Sanguine World View and a Daunting Reality ; 3. Why Choose Europe? The Place of the European Union in the Architecture of International Legal Cooperation ; 4. EU External Relations: The Governance Mode of Foreign Policy ; 5. From the Nation State to the Market: The Evolution of EU Private Law as Regulation of the Economy Beyond the Boundaries of the Union? ; PART II: THE EU AND GLOBAL SECURITY GOVERNANCE ; 6. The European Union in the Global Security Architecture ; 7. The EU and the Responsibility to Protect ; 8. EU Global Peace Diplomacy: Instruments to Support Status Processes ; 9. International Responsibility for EU Military Operations: Finding the EU's Place in the Global Accountability Regime ; PART III: THE EU AND GLOBAL TRADE GOVERNANCE ; 10. Institutional Aspects of Global Trade Governance from an EU Perspective ; 11. Expanding the Internal Market: An External Regulatory Policy for the EU? ; 12. Access to Raw Materials: The EU's Pursuit of Trade Disciplines on Export Control ; PART IV: THE EU AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE ; 13. Ambition, Complexity, and Legitimacy of Pursuing Mutual Supportiveness through the EU's External Enivronmental Action ; 14. Contingent Unilateralism: International Aviation in the European Emissions Trading Scheme ; 15. The Role of the EU in Shaping the Trade and Environment Regulatory Nexus: Multilateral and Regional Approaches ; PART V: THE EU AND GLOBAL FINANCIAL GOVERNANCE ; 16. What Role for the European Union in Shaping Global Financial Governance? ; 17. The EU at the G20 and the G20's Impact on the EU ; 18. The Global Reach of the Proposed Financial Transaction Tax Directive: Creating Momentum at the G20 through International Legislation? ; PART VI: THE EU AND GLOBAL SOCIAL GOVERNANCE ; 19. Towards International Migration Governance? The European Contribution ; 20. Economic Partnership Agreements: Enhancing the Labour Dimension of Global Governance? ; CLOSING PART ; 21. Conclusion: The Role of the EU in the Legal Dimension of Global Governance

The first comprehensive legal study of the role of the European Union in global governance Examines the potential of the European Union to export its legal framework to the broader sphere of international governance Covers all major areas of EU external policy, including security, trade, financial regulation, the environment, and social governance

Dr. Bart Van Vooren is Assistant Professor of EU Law at the University of Copenhagen, and associate fellow at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies. He graduated from New York University School of Law and subsequently received his doctoral degree from the European University Institute. He has published one monograph EU External Relations Law and the European Neighbourhood Policy: A Paradigm for Coherance (Routledge, 2011), and has also published several articles in the field of EU external relations law in journals such as the Common Market Law Review, European Law Review, and the European Foreign Affairs Review. Prof. Dr. Steven Blockmans is Senior Research Fellow and Head of Unit EU Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Policy Studies, Professor of EU External Relations Law and Governance at the University of Amsterdam, and member of the governing board of the Centre for the Law of EU External Relations. He has published extensively on issues pertaining to the role and position of the EU in the world. Prof. Dr. Jan Wouters (LLM Yale) is Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair of EU and Global Governance, and Director of the Institute for International Law and the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies at the University of Leuven, an institute recognized as Centre of Excellence which furthers interdisciplinary research on the EU and global governance. He is Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges), at the University of Barcelona, and in the European Master's in Human Rights and Democratisation (EMA, Venice). He is Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts, has been référendaire at the European Court of Justice and practises law as Of Counsel at Linklaters, Brussels. He is Editor of the International Encyclopedia of Intergovernmental Organizations and Vice-Director of Revue belge de droit international. He has published widely on the EU, international law, and international organizations.

The first comprehensive legal study of the role of the European Union in global governance Examines the potential of the European Union to export its legal framework to the broader sphere of international governance Covers all major areas of EU external policy, including security, trade, financial regulation, the environment, and social governance