EU as International Environmental Negotiator

Dr Tom Delreux, Institut de Sciences Politiques Louvain-Europe (ISPOLE), University of Louvain, Belgium.

'Delreux’s The EU as International Environmental Negotiator advances our understanding of the EU’s role in global environmental negotiations by light years. Its deep substance, sharp rigor and clear presentation will make it must-reading for students, scholars and practitioners across international, environmental and European law and politics.' Joseph Jupille, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA 'This empirically rich and fascinating analysis of EU internal bargaining during eight multilateral environmental negotiations, considerably improves our understanding of the balance-of-power between various EU actors. It makes an original contribution to the existing literature on principal-agent relations by incorporating insights from sociological institutionalism.' Ole Elgström, Lund University, Sweden

• Contents: Introduction; The EU and mixed agreements; Member states as principals, EU negotiators as agents; The EU as negotiator in eight international environmental negotiations; Explaining the EU negotiator's discretion; Unravelling the EU decision-making process; Conclusions; Apendices; Bibliography; Index.