The European Union in International Environmental Negotiations: an Analysis of the Stockholm Convention Negotiations
(2009) Environmental Policy and Governance — Vol. 19, n° 1, p. 21-31 (2009)
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- This article focuses on the way the European Union acted as a negotiating party during the international negotiations leading to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (1998–2000). Starting from a principal–agent model, the article discusses how the EU participated in these negotiations and how the internal decision-making process developed. It argues that the EU was able to negotiate in a unified and influential way by defending a common position, which was expressed by a flexible negotiation arrangement, at the international level. Three features of the EU decision-making process engendered such a strong EU negotiation arrangement: homogeneous preferences among the actors in the EU, symmetrically distributed information among them and a cooperative and institutionally dense decision-making context. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.
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Delreux, T. (2009). The European Union in International Environmental Negotiations: an Analysis of the Stockholm Convention Negotiations. Environmental Policy and Governance, 19(1), 21-31. https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.494 (Original work published 2009)