REBELS WITH A CAUSE? PARLIAMENTARY RESILIENCE IN EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

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1 PACO 2017 LECTURE SERIES 22 FEBRUARY - 17 MAY REBELS WITH A CAUSE? PARLIAMENTARY RESILIENCE IN EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

2 REBELS WITH A CAUSE? PARLIAMENTARY RESILIENCE IN EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE European and global governance have in common that they refer to policy-making and problem-solving beyond traditional nation states. Often, the role of parliaments in their capacity as legislators, scrutinizers of executives and democratic gatekeepers is overlooked in this regard. There have been notorious cases in the past, such as the US Senate s non-approval of the League of Nations and International Trade Organization charters, or the French Assemblée s non-approval of the European Defence Community. Recently, parliaments have become increasingly more assertive, as inter alia illustrated by the European Parliament s rejection of the SWIFT and ACTA agreements, and by the Walloon Parliament s resistance to CETA. The present lecture series addresses the evolving roles of parliaments in European and global governance by looking in particular at such parliamentary rebellions. This refers to situations in which parliaments actively use their prerogatives to challenge decision-making and diplomacy in European and global governance. Parliamentary rebellions appear to take place for various reasons. The lecture series provides various tales of such rebellions in order to understand and explain the causes, factors and forces that drive parliaments when they threaten to veto international treaties or use their parliamentary prerogatives, for instance by voting against military interventions.

3 Introduction: Parliamentary Rebellions and Resilience in European and Global Governance: Introduction to the Lecture Series Dr. Kolja Raube, KU Leuven Wednesday, 22 February 2017, , Faculty of Law, Zeger Van Hee Dr. Kolja Raube is senior member and research manager at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies. He is also lecturer and programme coordinator at KU Leuven s Master of European Studies: Transnational and Global Perspectives. He has been adjunct professor at the American University Washington D.C. (Brussels Campus) and visiting professor at Kobe University (Japan) as well as Visiting Research Fellow at the EU Studies Centre at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Lecture 1: Rebellions in Congress: Why Did the US not join the League of Nations and the International Trade Organization? Prof. Dr. Donald Ritchie, Historian Emeritus of the US Senate Wednesday, 22 February 2017, , Faculty of Law, Zeger Van Hee Donald A. Ritchie is Historian Emeritus of the United States Senate. At the Senate Historical Office he provided research and reference for senators, scholars, and journalists, conducted an oral history program, and prepared the previously closed hearings of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for publication. His books include Press Gallery: Congress and the Washington Correspondents; and The United States Congress: A Very Short Introduction. Lecture 2: Parliamentary Rebellions in Cases of War and Peace? Comparing the UK and Germany Prof. Dr. Patrick Mello, Bavarian School of Public Policy Thursday, 23 March 2017, , Faculty of Law, Zeger Van Hee Patrick A. Mello is Assistant Professor at the Bavarian School of Public Policy at the Technical University of Munich. His research focuses on international security, the domestic sources of foreign policy, and comparative research methods, especially fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis on which he teaches courses at the ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques and the Swiss Social Science Methods Summer School. He is the author of Democratic Participation in Armed Conflict (Palgrave Macmillan) and has published in the European Journal of International Relations, the Journal of International Relations and Development and West European Politics.

4 Lecture 3: The European Parliament s Power to Veto International Agreements the Cases of SWIFT and ACTA and their Aftermath Dr. Guri Rosén, University of Gothenburg/ Oslo Thursday, 20 April 2017, , MTC, Kleine Aula Dr. Guri Rosén is postdoctoral fellow at ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo and guest researcher at the Centre for European Research University of Gothenburg (CERGU). Her research focuses on European Parliament s role in EU s external relation, EU interinstitutional relations and the role of transparency and democracy in foreign policy. She has published several articles in international peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies and Journal of European Integration. Her current project investigates the role of the European Parliament in the EU s trade policy, and is funded by the Norwegian Research Council. Lecture 4: Brexit, the rule of law and the British Parliament Prof. Dr. Paul Craig, St John s College, Oxford University Wednesday, 26 April 2017, , Faculty of Law, Zeger Van Hee Paul Craig is Professor of English at St John s College, Oxford. He teaches and researches on Administrative law, Constitutional law, EU law and Comparative Public Law. His latest book is UK, EU and Global Administrative Law: Foundations and Challenges (CUP, 2015). He is one of the two UK representatives on the Venice Commission on Law and Democracy. Lecture 5: The European Parliament s Resilient Role in International Crises A Rebel with a Cause? Dr. Gerrard Quille, European Parliament Wednesday, 27 April 2017, , MTC, Kleine Aula Dr Gerrard Quille has worked as a specialist on foreign, security and defence policy issues for over 11 years in DG EXPO in the General-Secretariat of the European Parliament. He began as a researcher in the Policy Department and then served as a Senior Advisor to the Foreign Affairs Committee (AFET). Currently, he is establishing a new EP Mediation Support service, tasked with developing parliamentary mediation as a new activity in the field of democracy support and parliamentary diplomacy.

5 Lecture 6: The European Parliament in International Climate Negotiations: the Case of the 2015 Paris Summit Prof. Dr. Katja Biedenkopf, KU Leuven Thursday, 4 May 2017, , MTC, Kleine Aula Katja Biedenkopf Assistant Professor of European and International Politics at the University of Leuven, Belgium. Her research centres on the external effects of EU environmental and climate policies, global environmental governance and climate diplomacy. Previously, she worked as Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In , she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the KFG The Transformative Power of Europe at the Free University Berlin, Germany. Lecture 7: National Parliaments and European Integration : Lost and found? The Case of the French National Assembly Prof. Dr. Julien Navarro, Université Catholique de Lille Wednesday, 3 May 2017, , Faculty of Law, Zeger Van Hee Julien Navarro is Associate Professor at the European School of Political and Social Sciences (ESPOL) of Lille Catholic University and the Francophone Chair of Political Science at the Vienna School of International Studies. His research focuses mainly on European Union politics, parliamentary institutions and political elites. Lecture 8: Could Parliamentarization Strengthen the Democratic Legitimacy of Global Governance? The Case of the ILO Prof. Dr. Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, London School of Economics Wednesday, 17 May 2017, , Faculty of Law, Zeger Van Hee Mathias Koenig-Archibugi is an associate professor of global politics and programme director of the MSc Global Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research on international political integration, European and global democracy, and international labour standards has been published in the European Journal of International Relations, European Journal of Political Research, Governance, International Organization, Philosophy and Public Affairs, World Politics, and other journals.

6 Conclusion: Why Parliamentarism Matters in European and Global Governance Prof. Dr. Jan Wouters and Dr. Kolja Raube, KU Leuven Wednesday, 17 May 2017, , Faculty of Law, Zeger Van Hee Jan Wouters is Jean Monnet Chair ad personam EU and Global Governance, Full Professor of International Law and International Organizations, and founding Director of the Institute for International Law and of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, an interdisciplinary centre of excellence, at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven). The Centre was recognized in 2016 as a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. In Leuven, he teaches public international law, law of international organizations, the law of the World Trade Organization, space law and international humanitarian law.