Author (Person) | Delreux, Tom, Kerremans, Bart |
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Series Title | Journal of European Integration |
Series Details | Vol.32, No.4, July 2010, p357-374 |
Publication Date | July 2010 |
ISSN | 0703-6337 |
Content Type | Journal | Series | Blog |
This article examines why and how agents weaken the incentives to control of their principals when the EU negotiates international agreements. Based on analyses of various EU decision-making processes on international trade and environmental agreements, this article argues that the EU negotiator-as-agent has a number of tools to affect the cost-benefit analysis on the basis of which the member states-as-principals decide on the activation of their control mechanisms. In order to avoid that the member states reject the international agreement reached by the EU negotiator (the Commission and/or the Presidency), the latter needs to reduce the range of behavioural options of the former. Three strategic paths are available to the agent to weaken its principals' control incentives: (a) calibrating the member states' involvement in the international negotiations, (b) being the first mover in determining its own instructions, and (c) exploiting the inconclusiveness among the member states. |
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Source Link | Link to Main Source http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/ |
Subject Categories | Politics and International Relations |
Countries / Regions | Europe |
Record URL | https://www.europeansources.info/record/?p=442434 |