ABSTRACT

This volume provides a comprehensive account of the European Union’s social role in the world, assessing the EU’s ability to shape the social aspect of globalization from both law and political science perspectives.

Focusing explicitly on the EU, the authors address the extent of coherence between the Union’s international social objectives compared with the activities of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and with other EU foreign policy goals. Various dimensions of Europe’s global social role are addressed, including:

 

  • the social dimension of EU trade relations
  • the involvement of civil society in EU development policies
  • the linkage between the EU’s internal and external ‘social model’
  • the export of Europe’s social acquis through enlargement and neighbourhood policies
  • the EU’s international position on health, gender equality, children’s rights, and corporate social responsibility
  • the role of the Union in the ILO

The European Union and the Social Dimension of Globalization will be of strong interest to students and researchers in EU studies, Globalization studies, and Social Policy.

chapter 1|26 pages

From the social clause to the social dimension of globalization

ByJAN ORBIE, LISA TORTELL

chapter 4|19 pages

The social dimension of EU neighbourhood policies

BySIEGLINDE GSTÖHL

chapter 5|17 pages

EU–ILO relations: Between regional and global governance

ByAILISH JOHNSON

chapter 7|18 pages

The EU and the ILO Maritime Labour Convention: ‘In our common interest and in the interest of the world’ 1

ByLISA TORTELL, RUDI DELARUE, JEFFREY KENNER

chapter 9|18 pages

The social dimension of EU trade policies

ByJAN ORBIE, MYRIAM GISTELINCK, BART KERREMANS

chapter 10|20 pages

The European corporate social responsibility strategy: A pole of excellence?

ByOLGA MARTIN-ORTEGA AND MUZAFFER EROGLU

chapter 11|21 pages

Lobbying the EU for gender-equal development

ByPETRA DEBUSSCHER, JACQUI TRUE

chapter 13|14 pages

The EU’s international promotion of the rights of the child

ByIAN MANNERS