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Transnational Networks and EU International Cooperation

This book provides a timely evaluation of the EUs ability to act internationally and coordinate policy in a time when it also seeks to meet shifting demands of international cooperation. These include global sustainable development, the challenge of multilateralism and the changing geopolitical order.

Analysing the networks of officials and policy professionals in EU development policy, the book yields theoretical insights into dominant processes that characterise EU governance in international cooperation and assesses their role for policy coordination. Overall, this book concludes that EU policy coordination evades intergovernmental control and demonstrates how the agency of EU institutions depends on efforts of member state officials to defend their priorities and identities. Finally, it shows the need to better understand the EU as a collective international actor, beyond the widespread concern with institutional adjustments, which continuously fail to produce the intended outcomes.

This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of European and EU politics, EU foreign policy, EU external relations and more broadly to international relations and international development.

Sebastian Steingass is Academic Assistant of Political Science and International Relations in the European Interdisciplinary Studies Department at the College of Europe, Natolin campus, Poland.

Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies

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Chad Damro

University of Edinburgh, UK

Elaine Fahey

City University London, UK

and

David Howarth

University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, on behalf of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies

The primary objective of the new Contemporary European Studies series is to provide a research outlet for scholars of European Studies from all disciplines. The series publishes important scholarly works and aims to forge for itself an international reputation.

Editorial Board: Grainne De Brca, European University Institute and Columbia University; Andreas Fllesdal, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo; Peter Holmes, University of Sussex; Liesbet Hooghe, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; David Phinnemore, Queens University Belfast; Ben Rosamond, University of Warwick; Vivien Ann Schmidt, University of Boston; Jo Shaw, University of Edinburgh; Mike Smith, University of Loughborough and Loukas Tsoukalis, ELIAMEP, University of Athens and European University Institute.

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Transnational Networks and EU International Cooperation

In Pursuit of Effectiveness

Sebastian Steingass

Transnational Networks and EU International Cooperation

In Pursuit of Effectiveness

Sebastian Steingass

First published 2021

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2021 Sebastian Steingass

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ISBN: 978-0-367-36769-5 (hbk)

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Contents

The origins of this book can be traced back to late 2012 when I decided to embark on a long-term research project studying the European Union and international development. Since then, the EU has experienced many more challenges and, with Brexit, lost one of its members. The UK not only takes up a good part of this book, but it was also largely written in the UK. In many ways, this project benefitted from Britains membership in the EU.

This book is partially based on my PhD thesis, which I completed at the University of Cambridge in 2018. It would not exist without the support of many individuals which I received over the last few years. First of all, my gratitude goes to Geoffrey Edwards who spent an enormous amount of time commenting on previous drafts and discussing various aspects of European foreign policy and external relations. Without his trust, confidence and mentorship, the research for this book would not have been possible. He supported me on the journey to this book from the beginning to the end. I would also like to acknowledge the financial support from the Economic and Social Research Council (grant number 1372197) during my time in Cambridge and to thank the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and St Catharines College Cambridge. The years in Cambridge were exceptional and I am grateful for the support that I received there.

In addition, I would like to thank those individuals whose comments, feedback and critical engagement have directly contributed to the book: Julie Smith, Simon Lightfoot, Maurizio Carbone, James Mayall, Chris Bickerton, Niels Keijzer, Julian Bergmann and Laura-Theresa Krger. With Laura-Theresa Krger I also collaborated on a project on EU joint programming. Some of our joint thoughts have found their way into this book. A special thanks extends to Lonie de Jonge who has not only provided critical feedback on large parts of the book but also provided a great deal of encouragement over all those years. A significant part of the books empirical evidence comes from interviews, which I conducted in Brussels, Berlin, Bonn and London between 2015 and 2016. While the individuals remain anonymous, and not all my interlocutors found their way into this book, I would like to thank all my interviewees for their time, collaboration and openness, which is not self-evident. Without their insights and willingness to share their views, this book would have been very different.

I finalised the manuscript in Warsaw at the College of Europe (Natolin) and during exceptional times in early 2020. I would like to thank the editorial team at Routledge (especially Sophie Iddamalgoda) for their patience, trust and professional assistance during the publication process. I would also like to thank the series editors for their trust in the project and the reviewers for their helpful comments. Over the years, various people have provided comments and input, which found their way into this book in one way or another. It is impossible to name all of them and I apologise for my omissions.

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