The Routledge Handbook of Transatlantic Relations by Fahey, Elaine;

Short description:

The Routledge Handbook on the International Dimension of Transatlantic Relations is an essential and comprehensive reference for the regulation of transatlantic relations across a range of subjects, bringing together contributions from scholars, policy makers, lawyers and political scientists.

Long description:

The Routledge Handbook of Transatlantic Relations is an essential and comprehensive reference for the regulation of transatlantic relations across a range of subjects, bringing together contributions from scholars, policy makers, lawyers and political scientists. Future oriented in a range of fields, it probes the key technical, procedural and policy issues for the US of dealing with, negotiating, engaging and law-making with the EU, taking a broad interdisciplinary perspective including international relations, politics, political economic and law, EU external relations law and international law and assesses the external consequences of transatlantic relations in a systematic and comprehensive fashion.

The transatlantic relationship constitutes one of the most established and far-reaching democratic alliances globally, and which has propelled multilateralism, trade regulation and the EU-US relationship in global challenges. The different contributions will propose solutions to overcome these problems and help us understand the shifting transatlantic agenda in diverse areas from human rights, to trade, and security, and the capacity of the transatlantic relationship to set new international agendas, standards and rules.

The Routledge Handbook of Transatlantic Relations will be a key reference for scholars, students and practitioners of Transatlantic Relations/EU-US relations, EU External Relations law, EU rule-making, EU Security law and more broadly to global governance, International law, international political economy and international relations.

Transatlantic relations are often reduced to security matters. This book responds to the need for more comprehensive analyses of various policy sectors and arenas in which the EU and the US interact. These are embedded in larger theoretical debates, thus skillfully connecting theory and practice in this valuable handbook.

An intellectual gold mine for scholars and practitioners alike, this book unlocks the full complexity of Transatlantic relations. Breaking down policy silos, it goes beyond the diplomatic tip of the Transatlantic iceberg to shed light on the submerged processes, actors and institutions that structure this cooperative, competitive and conflictual relationship.

With this seminal work Elaine Fahey assembled an impressive selection of authoritative voices on Transatlantic relations from both sides of the pond who delivered rigorous, original, and thought-provoking contributions providing a consistent narrative on a crucial relationship that has been and will remain difficult before, during, and after President Trump.

In an increasingly bipolar world, the US-EU relationship should be one of strength and coherence. Yet, as the Handbook vividly shows, this relationship remains unstable and multifaceted. New crises and actions by a plurality of transatlantic actors are constantly re-shaping the balance of powers in diplomacy, policy, and law across the Atlantic.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Elaine Fahey

SECTION I: EU and US Intra-Organisations Relations

1 Connecting the US Congress and the European Parliament: The Work and Role of the EP Liaison O□ffice in Washington DC

Joseph Dunne

2 EU-US Relations in a Changing World

David O’Sullivan

3 Negotiating with the European Union – A U.S. Perspective

Kenneth Propp

4 Transatlantic Parliamentary Cooperation at Fifty

Davor Jancic

5 The Rise of Informal International Organizations

Charles B. Roger

6 The Revival of Transatlantic Partnership? EU-US Coordination in Sanctions Policy

Peter Van Elsuwege and Viktor Szép

7 The EU and US Global Human Rights Sanction Regimes: Useful Complementary Instruments to Advance Protection of Universal Values? A Legal Appraisal

Sara Poli

8 NATO and Transatlantic Security Relations

Gabriella Bolstad and Karsten Friis

SECTION II: Trade, Investment and Cooperation in Transatlantic Relations

9 Transatlantic Economic and Legal Disintegration? Between Anglo-Saxon Neo-Liberal Nationalism, Authoritarian State-Capitalism and Europe’s Ordo-Liberal Multilevel Constitutionalism

Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann

10 Reverberations of the CJEU Achmea B.V. Decision in the Transatlantic Space

Jenya Grigorova

11 Executive Accountability in Unilateral Trade Policy: A Transatlantic Perspective

Thomas Verellen

12 Transatlantic Energy Relations: A Brief History and a Tentative Outlook

Simon Dekeyrel

13 Transatlantic Trade Relations: Domestic Obstacles and Strategic Opportunities

L. Johan Eliasson

14 Taking Back Control: The Political Economy of Investment Screening in the US and EU

15 The Future of the EU-US Privacy Shield

16 The EU and US Transatlantic Agendas on Taxation

Maria Kendrick

17 The “Beneficial Divergence” in the Transatlantic Approach to Competition Law Enforcement Towards Platform and Ecosystem Competition

18 Who Occupies the Transatlantic Data Privacy Space? Assessing the Evolving Dynamics, Underlying Reasons and the Way Forward

19 The Transatlantic Regulatory Relationship: Limited Conflict, Less Competition and a New Approach to Cooperation

20 Bilateral, Trilateral or - Quadrilateral? The UK-US Trade Relations in a Global Context

21 Anglo-American Power in the Wake of Brexit and America First: A Crisis at the Heart of the Liberal International Order

22 The Measurement, Structure and Dynamics of the Transatlantic Current Account

23 Asymmetry and Civil Society Backlash: Changing European Calculations in Trans-Atlantic Investment Relations from CETA to TTIP and Beyond

24 Transatlantic Relations in a Changing World