The European Union as a Global Player : Creating Global Public Goods Through Partnerships

This book explores the role of the European Union in global governance with a focus on its evolving role in the Group of Eight since 2000. This evolution reflects the EU’s growth in power and influence as well as its expanding competences and legal authority. This volume also analyses the EU’s participation in the Group of Twenty, of which it has been a member since the group’s finance ministers and central bank governors began meeting in 1999 -- unlike the EU’s gradual inclusion in G8 processes. The book traces the transformation of the EU’s identity into a global actor, examining both how its participation in these institutions of global governance affects the EU and how the EU contributes to global governance as both an actor and a model