Friday, July 14, 2017
John McIntyre - Teaching Room 208 (University of Glasgow)
The EU’s engagement with international regimes is often studied as a multi-layered negotiation process among top-level representatives. Yet, the EU not only relates to international regimes through traditional multilateral diplomacy and negotiations across various levels. It is also engaged in a growing web of transnational exchanges involving bureaucrats, policy experts, and non-state actors, often liaising in policy networks. This article makes the case that the embeddedness of the EU’s foreign policy bureaucracy in global transnational networks can have a significant impact on EU foreign policymaking. Specifically, intra-EU networks may provide external actors access to European policymaking, facilitate coalition building among EU bureaucrats and external actors, and contribute to socialization. Empirically, we highlight the importance of these transnational exchanges with respect to the role of EU’s Public International Law Working Group (COJUR) in the formulation of EU foreign policy on the ICC.
