The European Union at the United Nations

This is the first book to examine in depth the European Union's relationship with the United Nations and to analyze critically the EU's contribution to "effective multilateralism". The contributors show that the EU most often fails to make the UN as effective as it should be in addressing global challenges: the EU is failing to lead within the UN, and yet it is still developing itself as a credible and reliable partner for the UN.

KATIE VERLIN LAATIKAINEN is Associate Professor of Political Science at Adelphi University. KAREN E. SMITH is Reader in International Relations and Director of the European Foreign Policy Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

List of Tables and Figures

vii

Notes on the Contributors

viii

List of Abbreviation

xi

1 Introduction The European Union at the United Nations: Leader, Partner or Failure?

1

(24)

Katie Verlin Laatikainen and Karen E. Smith

Part I Background and framework

25

(22)

2 EU Representation and Coordination within the United Nations

27

(22)

Mary Farrell

Part II The Politics of National Interest and EU Policy Coordination in the UN

47

(66)

3 The European Powers in the Security Council: Differing Interests, Differing Arenas

49

(21)

Christopher Hill

4 Pushing Soft Power: Middle Power Diplomacy at the UN

70

(22)

Katie Verlin Laatikainen

5 Returned to Europe? The Central and East European Member States at the Heart of the European Union

92

(23)

Elisabeth fohansson-Nogués

Part III The EU in UN Policy Arenas

113

(80)

6 Effective Multilateralism and Collective Security: Empowering the UN

115

(18)

Sven Biscop and Edith Drieskens

7 The EU in Geneva: Coordinating Policy in the Economic and Social Arrangements of the United Nations System

133

(21)

Paul Taylor

8 The European Union, Human Rights and the United Nations

154

(21)

Karen E. Smith

9 EU-UN Environmental Relations: Shared Competence and Effective Multilateralism

175

(18)

Chad Damro

Part IV Conclusions

193

(19)

10 Intersecting Multilateralisms: The European Union and Multilateral Institutions

195

(17)

Knud Erik Jørgensen

Bibliography

212

(15)

Index

227

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