Table of Contents

Contents: Finn Laursen: The EU in the Global Political Economy. Overview of Institutions, Instruments and Relations – Amy Verdun: The EU as a Global Actor. The Role of EMU and the Euro – Antonis Antoniadis: The EU’s Implied Competence to Conclude International Agreements after the Reform Treaty. Reformed Enough? – Rafael Leal-Arcas: The European Union and the BRIC Countries. Unilateralism, Bilateralism and Multilateralism – Christian Marfels/James Sawler: The Significance of EU Merger Policy in the Global Economy and the Persistence of the Criterion of Dominance – Declan Walsh: Is the United States Facing Competition from Europe? – Osvaldo Croci/Livianna Tossutti: Canada and the European Union. A Story of Unrequited Attraction – Jerome D. Davis: Natural Gas and EU Energy Security. Russian-EU ‘Co-Dependency’? – Finn Laursen: The EU and Japan. What Happened to the Persistent Trade Deficit? – Jing Men: Building a Long-Term EU-China Partnership – Stephen Dearden: Delivering the EU’s Development Policy. Policy Evolution and Administrative Reform – Yanna Gutiérrez Franco/José Manuel Martínez Sierra: EU Environmental Cooperation with Developing Countries – Joaquín Roy: Spain Takes the Lead in EU Policy towards Cuba – Peter Abrahamson: European Union Influence on Central American Integration. The Case of the Coming Association Agreement – Colette Mazzucelli: E3 Diplomacy with Iran. Reaching the Limits of the European Union as a Global Actor.

About the Author

The Editor: Finn Laursen, Ph.D. in Political Science (1980), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, holds a Canada Research Chair as well as an ad personam Jean Monnet Chair in EU Studies at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is also Director of the EU Centre of Excellence (EUCE) at Dalhousie. Before moving to Canada in 2006, he taught at the University of Southern Denmark. He has published extensively on various aspects of European integration.