The EUs Role in Fighting Global Imbalances

This collection of chapters constitutes a highly valuable and informed input to the debate on the European Unions present and potential role in the shaping of our common future. Together, the contributors take a comprehensive perspective covering legal, political and economic imbalances in the world that are of acute relevance for the possibilities to effectively tackle challenges common to us all, such as climate change, poverty, trafficking and the supply of scarce fundamental commodities. To what extent can the European Union be a constructive force in ameliorating these imbalances, and thereby in world politics, and how ought it to proceed? -- Per Cramr, University of Gothenburg, Sweden The international dimension of the EUs activities is under-researched and often poorly understood. This book, drawing on a range of disciplinary perspectives and bringing together a range of authors from the Nordic countries, provides a timely and well-thought-out exposition of the challenges the EU faces in the world. -- Iain Begg, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Edited by Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt, Professor of European Law and Torsten and Ragnar Sderberg Professor of Legal Science (20152018), Stockholm University, Moa Mrtensson, PhD, Researcher, Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden, Lars Oxelheim, Professor, School of Business and Law, University of Agder (UiA), Kristiansand, Norway, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm and Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM), Lund, Sweden and Thomas Persson, Associate Professor, Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden

Contents: 1. The EU and Global Inbalances Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt, Moa Mrtensson, Lars Oxelheim and Thomas Persson 2. Transformative Power or Political Dwarf? European Leadership and Global Imbalances Lisbeth Aggestam 3. The Role of Aid in Reducing Global Imbalances: The EU and Africa Arne Bigsten 4. Superentrepreneurship and Global Inbalances: Closing Europes Gap to Other Industrialised Regions Magnus Henrekson and Tino Sanandaji 5. Global Imbalances in Climate Protection, Leadership Ambitions and EU Climate Change Law Sanja Bogojevi 6. Human Trafficking as a Result of Global Imbalances: The Role of the European Union Anna Jonsson Cornell 7. Can the European Union Use Agreements to Even Out the Global Imbalance in the Protection of Human Rights? Andreas Moberg 8. The Imbalances Between the European Union and China Ari Kokko 9. The EUs Relations With Russia: Off Balance and Beyond Repair? Anke Schmidt-Felzmann 10. External Perceptions of the EU: Obstacle or Asset in the Fight Against Global Imbalances? Ole Elgstrm Index