Navigating Regional Regime Complexity: How and Why Does the European Union Cooperate With Regional Organizations?

Panke, Diana; Stapel, Sören

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“…The mutual blockade resulted in the watering down of normative standards and in rule ambiguity." 2 The cooperation agreements between European Union (EU) and the Arctic Council (AC) provide an illustration, as they sought to avoid "possible duplication" as a negative side-effect of regime complexity and, at the same time, "maximize the use of the available human and financial resources in the region, ensuring that they are used in the most effective way" to benefit from synergies (AC-EU 2006, see also Panke & Stapel, 2023).…”

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Cooperation between international organizations: Demand, supply, and restraint

Panke,

Stapel

2023

Rev Int Organ

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Regime complexity characterizes the international system, as many international organizations (IOs) overlap in membership and competencies at the same time. Unmanaged overlaps endanger the effectiveness of IOs. Inter-organizational cooperation can mitigate such negative consequences. However, a novel dataset reveals that not all overlapping IOs cooperate with each other and the institutionalization of cooperation agreements varies. Why do some but not all overlapping IOs opt for cooperation agreements, and why do their designs vary? The analysis of a demand–supply–restraint model shows that increased exposure to overlaps creates a demand for IOs to reach cooperation agreements and for their strong institutionalization. States respond more favourable to the supply of cooperation agreements when they are used to international cooperation and internal authority-delegation. The restraint component underscores that IOs are less inclined to cooperate when ideological differences and power differentials between them are greater and that IOs choose highly institutionalized cooperation agreements when their ideological differences are limited.

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Cooperation between international organizations: Demand, supply, and restraint

Panke,

Stapel

2023

Rev Int Organ

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Navigating Regime Complexes in Turbulent Times—The EU’s Interaction with Other International Organizations in Crises

Daßler,

Bandemer,

Rittberger

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Polit Vierteljahresschr

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Over the past decades, the European Union (EU) has confronted multiple crises, which have prompted swift political responses from the EU’s member states and institutions. While there is a broad literature about the EU’s internal responses to crises, we know much less about the EU’s interactions with external actors. Because the EU is part of issue-specific regime complexes, it has cultivated relationships with international organizations (IOs) across a multitude of issues. We argue that during crises, the EU has heightened incentives to complement its internal crisis response by interactions with other IOs that vary in their qualities. How can the EU’s external engagement during crises be conceptualized and theoretically explained? Drawing on the regime complexity literature, we identify three different types of interactions among IOs to conceptualize the EU’s varying external engagements during crises periods: pooling, division of labor, and competition. We further argue that under the condition of regime complexity, the choice of interorganizational interaction is shaped by the convergence of means and ends among the respective dyads of IOs. To illustrate the usefulness of our typology for the study of the EU’s external responses to crises, as well as the plausibility of our argument, we analyze three instances of EU–IO relationships in crisis contexts: pooling between the EU and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to address the sovereign debt crisis, division of labor between the EU and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in response to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, and competition between the EU and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) during the “migration crisis.”

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The European Union as an Actor Navigating International Regime Complexes

Delreux¹,

Earsom²

2023

PaG

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Global governance in many domains is increasingly characterised by the existence of international regime complexes—i.e., sets of overlapping institutional fora taking up different aspects of a broader issue area. As an international actor, the EU faces a context of such international regime complexity. Yet, little is known about how the EU navigates international regime complexes and how regime complexes impact the EU’s behaviour in individual fora. This thematic issue, therefore, seeks to improve our understanding of how different manifestations of international regime complexes affect the EU as an international actor and to provide empirical insight into the ways actors like the EU navigate international regime complexes. In this editorial, we situate the thematic issue within the broader academic debates on the EU’s role in international regime complexity, argue for the need to study the EU as an actor therein, and provide an overview of the thematic issue’s objectives and the nine articles that comprise it.

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Navigating Regional Regime Complexity: How and Why Does the European Union Cooperate With Regional Organizations?

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Cooperation between international organizations: Demand, supply, and restraint

Cooperation between international organizations: Demand, supply, and restraint

Navigating Regime Complexes in Turbulent Times—The EU’s Interaction with Other International Organizations in Crises

The European Union as an Actor Navigating International Regime Complexes

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