Europe and the Management of Globalization
European politicians often speak of their efforts to manage globalization. At one level, this is merely a rhetorical device to make globalization more palatable to citizens and prove that policy-makers are still firmly in control of their countrys fate. This volume argues that the advocacy of managed globalization goes beyond rhetoric and actually has been a primary driver of major European Union (EU) policies in the past twenty years. The EU has indeed tried to manage globalization through the use of five major mechanisms: 1) expanding policy scope; 2) exercising regulatory influence; 3) empowering international institutions; 4) enlarging the territorial sphere of EU influence; and 5) redistributing the costs of globalization. These mechanisms are neither entirely novel, nor are they always effective but they provide the contours of an approach to globalization that is neither ad hoc deregulation, nor old-style economic protectionism.
The recent financial crisis may have seemed initially to vindicate the European efforts to manage globalization, but it also represented the limits of such efforts without the full participation of the US and China. The EU cannot rig the game of globalization, but it can try to provide predictability, oversight, and regularity with rules that accommodate European interests.
This book was based on a special issue of Journal of European Public Policy.
Wade Jacoby is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for the Study of Europe at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Jacoby has published articles in World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Politics and Society, The Review of International Political Economy, The Review of International Organizations, and many other journals. Jacoby received the DAAD Prize for his scholarship on Germany and the EU in 2006 and was a Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute in 2009-2010.
Sophie Meunier is a Research Scholar in Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, and the Co-Director of the European Union Program at Princeton. She is the author of Trading Voices: The European Union in International Commercial Negotiations (Princeton University Press, 2005); and the co-editor of Making History: European Integration and Institutional Change at Fifty (Oxford University Press, 2007).
Journal of European Public Policy Series
Series Editor: Jeremy Richardson is a Professor at Nuffield College, Oxford University
This series seeks to bring together some of the finest edited works on European Public Policy. Reprinting from Special Issues of the Journal of European Public Policy, the focus is on using a wide range of social sciences approaches, both qualitative and quantitative, to gain a comprehensive and definitive understanding of Public Policy in Europe.
Towards a Federal Europe
Edited by Alexander H. Trechsel
The Disparity of European Integration
Edited by Tanja A. Brzel
Cross-National Policy Convergence
Causes Concepts and Empirical Findings
Edited by Christoph Knill
Civilian or Military Power?
European Foreign Policy in Perspective
Edited by Helene Sjursen
The European Union and New Trade Politics
Edited by John Peterson and Alasdair R. Young
Comparative Studies of Policy Agendas
Edited by Frank R. Baumgartner, Christoffer Green-Pedersen and Bryan D. Jones
The Constitutionalization of the European Union
Edited by Berthold Rittberger and Frank Schimmelfenig
Empirical and Theoretical Studies in EU Lobbying
Edited by David Coen
Mutual Recognition as a New Mode of Governance
Edited by Susanne K. Schmidt
France and the European Union
Edited by Emiliano Grossman
Immigration and Integration Policy in Europe
Edited by Tim Bale
Reforming the European Commission
Edited by Michael W. Bauer
International Influence Beyond Conditionality
Postcommunist Europe after EU enlargement
Edited by Rachel A. Epstein and Ulrich Sedelmeier
The Role of Political Parties in the European Union
Edited by Bjrn Lindberg, Anne Rasmussen and Andreas Warntjen
EU External Governance
Projecting EU Rules beyond Membership
Edited by Sandra Lavenex and Frank Schimmelfennig
EMU and Political Science
What Have We Learned?
Edited by Henrik Enderlein and Amy Verdun
Learning and Governance in the EU Policy Making Process
Edited by Anthony R Zito
Political Representation and EU Governance
Edited by Peter Mair and Jacques Thomassen
Europe and the Management of Globalization
Edited by Wade Jacoby and Sophie Meunier
Negotiation Theory and the EU
The State of the Art
Edited by Andreas Dr, Gemma Mateo and Daniel Thomas
To Idir and Ines Aitsahalia, who have managed to become global citizens and to Taylor, Mackenzie, and Kendall Jacoby, who are globally unmanageable
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