Este año el proyecto DYNAMUS participa en la conferencia anual de ISA en San Diego (California, EEUU, 1-4 de abril). Martijn Vlaskamp va a presentar un paper con el título "‘One Voice’, Few Influence? The European Union in Global Institutions" (co-autores: Esther Barbé y Benjamin Kienzle).
Resumen (en inglés):
From the early days of the European integration process to the Lisbon Treaty, a key rationale behind an “ever closer Union” in the area of foreign policy has been the belief that the European Union (EU) will be inevitably a more influential actor in global institutions if it speaks with a ‘single voice.’ This paper challenges this traditional assumption and argues that under certain circumstances the EU’s ‘single voice’ leads to less influence. Based on a conceptual framework developed within the DYNAMUS project (Dynamics of the Multilateral System), the paper will explore in particular three relevant processes: (a) the decreasing efficiency and flexibility of the EU itself; (b) the rejection of the EU as neo-colonial bloc by other actors in the international system; and (c) the inability of the EU’s ‘single voice’ to compensate negative changes in the international power structure after the Cold War. Each process will be underpinned by a case study from a prominent field of global governance: the roles of the EU in the UN Human Rights Council, in the Kimberley Process to ban the trade of “conflict diamonds”, and in the processes to ban cluster munitions.
