Bernhard Zangl

Who is held responsible when EU policies fail? Which blame games resonate in the European public? European Blame Games challenges the conventional wisdom that the complexity of EU decision-making eschews clarity of responsibility, thereby rendering European blame games untargeted and diffuse. The book argues that the politicization of EU policies triggers a plausibility assessment of blame attributions in the public domain with the effect that European blame games gravitate towards true responsibilities, targeting those political actors involved in enacting a policy that is subsequently considered a policy failure. It distinguishes three kinds of European blame games. In scapegoat games, supranational EU institutions are held responsible for a policy failure. Renegade games occur when individual member state governments are considered the culprits for a failed policy. When responsibility for a policy failure is shared between EU institutions and member states, diffusion games prevail. The book also explores three conditions to explain when each of the three European blame games prevails: the type of policy failure, the type of policy making, and the type of policy implementation. To empirically probe these conditions, European Blame Games studies the blame games in ten instances of EU policy failures, including EU foreign policy, environmental policy, fiscal stabilization, and migration policy. Transformations in Governance is a major academic book series from Oxford University Press. It is designed to accommodate the impressive growth of research in comparative politics, international relations, public policy, federalism, and environmental and urban studies concerned with the dispersion of authority from central states to supranational institutions, subnational governments, and public-private networks. It brings together work that advances our understanding of the organization, causes, and consequences of multilevel and complex governance. The series is selective, containing annually a small number of books of exceptionally high quality by leading and emerging scholars. The series is edited by Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Walter Mattli of the University of Oxford. This is an open access title available under the terms of a [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International] licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

This fourth edition provides wide-ranging coverage of the structure, internal workings, policies and performance of international organizations such as the UN, EU, IMF and World Bank. The authors take a unique approach to international organizations, arguing that they are best understood as political systems that convert problem ‘inputs’ into policy ‘outputs’, effecting varying levels of change. Using this framework, International Organization unpacks the constitutional and institutional complexities of IOs, covering contemporary political concerns like nuclear disarmament, climate change and human rights protection, as well as trade, monetary and financial relations, and international development. The edition has been updated throughout to explore key policy areas such as the war in Ukraine, collective defence and NATO, as well as the increasingly urgent issue of migration and refugee policies. The authors also attend to the issue of biodiversity.New to this edition:· Coverage of new academic debates and contemporary developments in the field · A new chapter on regional cooperation, which contrasts the European Union with the African Union, MERCOSUR and ASEAN · A new conclusion on the ‘crisis of international organizations’ attending to debates on the legitimacy of IOs, the rise of emerging powers, the difficulty of extending global governance to new areas such as cyber and AI, and the increasing geopolitical use of IOsThis is a key text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of politics and international relations; it is essential reading for those taking courses on international organization, global governance, the UN, and globalization.

This fourth edition provides wide-ranging coverage of the structure, internal workings, policies and performance of international organizations such as the UN, EU, IMF and World Bank. The authors take a unique approach to international organizations, arguing that they are best understood as political systems that convert problem ‘inputs’ into policy ‘outputs’, effecting varying levels of change. Using this framework, International Organization unpacks the constitutional and institutional complexities of IOs, covering contemporary political concerns like nuclear disarmament, climate change and human rights protection, as well as trade, monetary and financial relations, and international development. The edition has been updated throughout to explore key policy areas such as the war in Ukraine, collective defence and NATO, as well as the increasingly urgent issue of migration and refugee policies. The authors also attend to the issue of biodiversity.New to this edition:· Coverage of new academic debates and contemporary developments in the field · A new chapter on regional cooperation, which contrasts the European Union with the African Union, MERCOSUR and ASEAN · A new conclusion on the ‘crisis of international organizations’ attending to debates on the legitimacy of IOs, the rise of emerging powers, the difficulty of extending global governance to new areas such as cyber and AI, and the increasing geopolitical use of IOsThis is a key text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of politics and international relations; it is essential reading for those taking courses on international organization, global governance, the UN, and globalization.

The third edition of this popular core textbook provides wide-ranging coverage of the structure, internal working, policies and performance of international organizations such as the UN, EU, IMF and World Bank. Such organizations have never been so important in addressing the challenges that face our increasingly globalised world. This book introduces students to theories with which to approach international organizations, their history, and their ability to respond to contemporary issues in world politics from nuclear disarmament, climate change and human rights protection, to trade, monetary and financial relations, and international development. Underpinning the text is the authors' unique model that views international organizations as actual organizations. Reacting to world events, political actors provide the 'inputs' which are converted by the political systems of these organizations (through various decision-making procedures) into 'outputs' that achieve varying levels of real-world impact and effectiveness. This is the perfect text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of politics and international relations taking courses on International organization and global governance, as well as essential reading for those studying the UN, the EU and Globalization. New to this Edition: - Draws on the most recent research in the field and considers some of the significant world events of the last decade to ensure that the book is completely up to date. - Two separate chapters considering Trade and Development, and Finance and Monetary Relations respectively. - Fully accounts for the challenges to international organizations by the emerging powers, the Trump administration and Brexit

The third edition of this popular core textbook provides wide-ranging coverage of the structure, internal working, policies and performance of international organizations such as the UN, EU, IMF and World Bank. Such organizations have never been so important in addressing the challenges that face our increasingly globalised world. This book introduces students to theories with which to approach international organizations, their history, and their ability to respond to contemporary issues in world politics from nuclear disarmament, climate change and human rights protection, to trade, monetary and financial relations, and international development. Underpinning the text is the authors' unique model that views international organizations as actual organizations. Reacting to world events, political actors provide the 'inputs' which are converted by the political systems of these organizations (through various decision-making procedures) into 'outputs' that achieve varying levels of real-world impact and effectiveness.This is the perfect text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of politics and international relations taking courses on International organization and global governance, as well as essential reading for those studying the UN, the EU and Globalization. New to this Edition:- Draws on the most recent research in the field and considers some of the significant world events of the last decade to ensure that the book is completely up to date.- Two separate chapters considering Trade and Development, and Finance and Monetary Relations respectively.- Fully accounts for the challenges to international organizations by the emerging powers, the Trump administration and Brexit

Internationale Organisationen mit globaler oder regionaler Reichweite (z.B. UN, IWF, Weltbank, WTO, EU) spielen eine zunehmend wichtige Rolle bei der Schaffung und Implementierung von internationalen Normen und Regeln, mithin bei Global Governance. Die Sicherheit, das ökonomische Wohlergehen, der Schutz der Menschenrechte und die ökologischen Lebensbedingungen von Menschen weltweit werden von der Fähigkeit bzw. Unfähigkeit internationaler Organisationen, Kooperation und Regieren jenseits des Nationalstaates möglich zu machen und zu stabilisieren, beeinflusst. Das Lehrbuch will die Leserin bzw. den Leser daher theoretisch informiert und empirisch fundiert mit den Entstehungsbedingungen, der Entwicklung, Funktionsweise und den Tätigkeiten internationaler Organisationen vertraut machen. Es führt in die wichtigsten Theorien über internationale Organisationen ein und bietet einen historischen Überblick über internationale Organisationen in verschiedenen Politikfeldern. Das Lehrbuch analysiert ferner die Akteure, Strukturen und Prozesse, die die Entscheidungsfindung in internationalen Organisationen prägen. Schließlich werden die Tätigkeiten eines breiten Spektrums internationaler Organisationen und deren Beitrag zur kooperativen Bearbeitung grenzüberschreitender Probleme in den Sachbereichen „Sicherheit“, „Wirtschaft“, „Umwelt“ und „Menschenrechte“ untersucht.

In diesem Band wird das Recht als Untersuchungsgegenstand der internationalen Politik dargestellt. Dies wird durch die Fragestellungen und Ergebnisse theoriegeleiteter normativer und empirisch-analytischer Forschung in drei Rechtssph ren - dem V lkerrecht, dem transnationalen Recht und dem Staatsrecht - aufgezeigt. Im Ergebnis werden die Erkenntnisse zu einem umfassenden Bild von der Verrechtlichung internationaler Beziehungen und der Internationalisierung des Rechts zusammengefasst.