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Introduction: The EU as International Mediator – Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

2018

AbstractIn this introductory article of the special issue, we examine European Union (EU) mediation practice and identify different conceptual and empirical perspectives from which it can be analyzed. We present different understandings of mediation in research and practice a definition and conceptual clarification ofEUmediation practice, and offer a definition that covers mediation efforts and mediation support activities. Then, the institutional architecture forEUmediation activities is presented. Next, the focus of this special issue is examined and research questions that have not yet been sufficiently addressed in existing research ofEUforeign policy and mediation are discussed. Based …

International relations021110 strategic defence & security studiesSociology and Political Sciencemedia_common.quotation_subject05 social sciences0211 other engineering and technologies02 engineering and technology050601 international relations0506 political scienceEpistemologyNegotiationForeign policyPolitical sciencePolitical Science and International RelationsMediationResearch questionsJZmedia_commonInstitutional architectureInternational Negotiation
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Il doppio mito: sulla (pretesa) neutralità della politica monetaria della BCE e la (pretesa) non-vincolatività degli indirizzi di politica economica …

2021

Policies adopted by the governance of the EMU during the financial and Covid crises display a clear gap between the “form” and the “substance” of the institutional architecture of title VIII of the TFEU. It is submitted that this architecture is in sharp contrast with the European constitutional tradition. Furthermore, the traditional view is rejected, according to which the EU Commission and Council, as well as the ECB, are devoid of binding powers in the field of economic policy. Some reflections concerning both methodological implications of the foregoing and its possible effects on the European integration process are finally developed

Settore IUS/14 - Diritto Dell'Unione EuropeaEuropean monetary union (EMU) title VIII TFEU institutional architecture european constitutional tradition EU Commission EU Council and ECB alleged absence of binding powers European integration processSettore IUS/13 - Diritto Internazionale
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Spatial fragmentation of, and US support for, the main multilateral institutions of the western order

2017

The growth of China-led minilateral initiatives mostly of a regional character has challenged the main multilateral institutions of the Western order and, ultimately, US authority. Faced with a progressive delegitimation of the institutional architecture that it promoted after World War II, the US, under the Obama administration, has acted to defend the existing main multilateral institutions of the order (UN, IMF, WB and WTO), attributing them with a strategic role. More than being radical, though, the reforms enacted have been incremental and pragmatic, but always imperfect. More importantly, they have not altered US influence, which is exercised mostly through informal means. This, howev…

World War IIUS foreign policyUNMultilateralismWTOMarket fragmentationliberal international orderWBPolitical sciencePolitical economyrising powersCredibilityuniversal multilateral institutionOperations managementImperfectmultilateralismChinaIMFSettore SPS/04 - Scienza PoliticaInstitutional architecture
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