After its defeat at the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009, the EU can be considered to
have scored a relative success with the Paris Agreement adopted in December 2015. With …

We start with two puzzles: first, how to explain the European Union (EU)'s decline as a
climate change leader at the Copenhagen summit? Second, how to understand the partial …

ABSTRACT The Paris Agreement on climate change adopted in December 2015 reflects EU
policy objectives to large extent. To find an explanation, we develop a general framework …

The article examines the consequences of functional overlap among regulatory international
institutions for governance within institutional complexes. Whereas the existing literature …

The transatlantic dispute over genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has brought into
conflict the United States and the European Union, two long-time allies and economically …

In this article we examine the relationship between the institutional set‐up of the EU foreign
policy‐making process and the international actorness of the EU in two particular cases: the …

For well over a decade, the European Union (EU) has proclaimed its leadership role in
global environmental governance (GEG). In this article, we examine both the nature of its …

This contribution analyses the actorness, cohesiveness and effectiveness of the European
Union (EU) in international environmental negotiations and examines the impact of the …

Delreux examines how the EU functions when it participates in international environmental
negotiations. In particular, this book looks at the internal EU decision-making process with …

The environmental sector has witnessed the transformation and internationalization of the
problems, processes and actors that compose it. The policy problems of global warming, for …