Contestation and Polarization in Global Governance

Edited by Michelle Egan, Professor and Jean Monnet Chair ad personam, School of International Service and Co-Director, Transatlantic Policy Center, American University, Washington, DC, US, Kolja Raube, Associate Professor for European Governance and EU External Action, Faculty of Social Sciences, Director of the Centre for European Studies and Senior Member, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven, Jan Wouters, Full Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam EU and Global Governance, and Director of the Institute for International Law and Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium and Julien Chaisse, Professor, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, and President, Asia Pacific FDI Forum, Hong Kong SAR

Contents:

Introduction to Contestation and Polarization in Global Governance 1
Michelle Egan, Kolja Raube, Julien Chaisse and Jan Wouters

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? 18
Miles Kahler
2 Recasting world order: power politics, contestation and
international institutions 38
Shawn Donnelly
3 The era of un-institutionalized regions: explaining the
diminished prospects of regional integration in the
twenty-first century 55
Nicolas de Zamaróczy
4 The European Union and United States in the era of
shifting global order 76
Karol Chwedczuk-Szulc
5 Why create another Development Bank? China and the
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank 95
Tamar Gutner
6 Contesting international economic governance: the
‘people’ and trade in the Trump and Brexit rhetoric 109
Angelos Chryssogelos
7 Populists at the G20 and G7: informal cooperation in
turbulent times 125
Alex Andrione-Moylan and Jan Wouters

PART II CHANGING GLOBAL ORDERS AND
EUROPEAN RESPONSES
8 Contesting transatlantic relations: how weaker relations
influence EU foreign policies 145
Akasemi Newsome and Marianne Riddervold
9 Divide and conquer? Europe, China and policy coherence 161
Terrence Guay and Michael H. Smith
10 What role for the EU? Domestic contestation of the EU’s
global role(s) in its neighbourhood 180
Magdalena Góra
11 “Don’t stop believin’”: Germany’s turn from reflexive to
strategic multilateralism 197
Niklas Helwig
12 A Trump effect on European Union climate ambitions?
The European Council and Council of the EU’s responses
to US climate contestation 214
Katja Biedenkopf and Franziska Petri
13 Normative power Europe in the Belt and Road Initiative:
challenge for constructing the self or an opportunity for
changing others? 230
Xueji SU
14 Localizing the responsibility to protect: European and
Brazilian perspectives 248
Jan Wouters and Francisca Costa Reis
15 The AI global order: what place for the European Union? 265
Matthieu Burnay and Alexandru Circiumaru

PART III CHANGING GLOBAL TRADE ORDER AND
EUROPEAN RESPONSES
16 Keep on trading in the Free World 284
Fernando Dias Simões
17 The EU and the US on investor-state dispute settlement reform 303
Emily Gilson
18 The European Union’s global actorness in the climate
change era: using Sustainable Development Goals to bring
China and the US together 325
Doga Ulas Eralp
19 Tackling labour rights and environmental protection
through trade and Sustainable Development Chapters: the
European approach 344
Iulianna Romanchyshyna
20 Reform of international investment agreements and
sustainable development: contrasting the EU and Global
South approaches 358
Gudrun Zagel
21 The ‘object and purpose’ and incrementalism of
investment treaties: can international investment law
reinvent its identity? 379
Güneş Ünüvar

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