Global environmental complexity and the limits of the EU’s external regulatory actorness
(2020) The Supranational at Stake? The EU’s External Competences caught between Complexity and Fragmentation — ISBN: [0367821184], p. 130-144, published
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- This chapter’s aim is to understand how and to what extent the EU navigates global environmental complexity by using polycentricity. For this purpose, it is divided into three parts. Part 1 presents the competences of the EU by looking at primary law and by considering the emergence of innovative, associated EU governance structures. Part 2 discusses the variety of instruments that the EU has been using to reach its external environmental objectives within a fragmented and complex world. Part 3 highlights to what extent the EU has been able to externalise its objectives. Theoretically, without denying the importance of traditional approaches in terms of EU leadership (Zito 2005), EU normative power (Falkner 2007) or EU ‘actorness’ (Delreux 2014), the chapter concentrates on an innovative and polycentric approach when looking at the EU’s external environmental politics. Given the multilateral, multi-actor, multilevel and multisite nature of today’s environmental challenges and policies, the concept of polycentricity offers relevant tools to look at new actors, new actions and new policy designs in a post-Paris Agreement period. At the same time, polycentricity does not replace supranationality but rather complements existing institutions at the supranational level.
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Orsini, A., & Cobut, L. (2020). Global environmental complexity and the limits of the EU’s external regulatory actorness. In Anne Weyembergh et Mario Telò (ed.), The Supranational at Stake? The EU’s External Competences caught between Complexity and Fragmentation (p. p. 130-144). Routledge.