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The Brussels Effect offers a novel account of the EU by challenging the view that it is a declining world power. Anu Bradford explains how the EU exerts global influence through its ability to unilaterally regulate the global marketplace without the need to engage in neither international cooperation nor coercion.
List of contents
- Introduction: The Brussels Effect
- Preface to Part One: Theory
- Chapter 1. How the EU Became a Global Regulatory Power
- Chapter 2. The Brussels Effect
- Chapter 3. The Brussels Effect in Context
- Preface to Part Two: Case Studies
- Chapter 4. Market Competition
- Chapter 5. Digital Economy
- Chapter 6. Consumer Health and Safety
- Chapter 7. Environment
- Preface to Part Three: Assessment
- Chapter 8. Is the Brussels Effect Beneficial?
- Chapter 9. The Future of the Brussels Effect
About the author
Anu Bradford is the Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization at Columbia Law School. She is also a director for the European Legal Studies Center and a senior scholar at the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business. Her research and teaching focus on European Union law, international trade law, and comparative and international antitrust law. Before joining the Law School faculty in 2012, she was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School.
Summary
The Brussels Effect offers a novel account of the EU by challenging the view that it is a declining world power. Anu Bradford explains how the EU exerts global influence through its ability to unilaterally regulate the global marketplace without the need to engage in neither international cooperation nor coercion.
Additional text
In The Brussels Effect, Anu Bradford offers a perceptive analysis of the influence the EU can and must have well beyond its borders. With global governance being challenged, the Brussels Effect is filling a desperately needed void. It gives us yet another reason why we cannot afford to have the European ambitions fail.
