Networks, transnational networks and global order / Claire Godet and Amandine Orsini -- World politics as a complex system : analyzing governance complexity with network approaches / Philipp Pattberg and Oscar Widerberg -- Controlling governance issues in professional-organizational networks / Lasse Folke Henriksen and Leonard Seabrooke -- Ruling in a complex world : private regulatory networks and the export of European data protection rules / Guillaume Beaumier -- Navigating an emerging knowledge structure : where does the EU stand on sustainable finance? / Andreas Dimmelmeier -- The rise of the EU in international tax policy / Rasmus Corlin Christensen -- Transnational networks of the sovereign debt restructuring regime / Nicholas Haagensen -- Environmental governance networks : climate change and biodiversity / Claire Dupont -- Global complexity, civil society, and networks : the case of Lunaria in the Alliance of European Voluntary Organizations / Manfredi Valeriani -- Multi-level diplomacy in Europe in the digital century : the case of science diplomacy / Luk Van Langenhove and Elke Boers -- European Union networking against transnational crime / Anja P. Jakobi and Julia Kandt -- Conclusions : global complexity, networks and the role of EU and European actors / George Christou and Jacob Hasselbalch.

"This book examines the ability of the EU and European actor networks to coherently and effectively navigate, manage and influence debates and policy on the international stage. It also questions whether increasing complexity across a range of critical global issues and networks has affected this ability. Engaging with the growing theoretical and conceptual literature on networks and complexity, the book provides a deeper understanding of how the European Union and European actors navigate within global networks and complex regimes across a range of regulatory, policy cooperation and foreign and security policy issue areas. It sheds light on how far they are able to respond to and shape solutions to some of the most pressing challenges on the global agenda in the 21st century. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of EU/European and global networks and more broadly to European and EU studies, Global Governance, International Relations, International Political Economy and Foreign Policy and Security Studies"-- Provided by publisher.