The principal investigator of the EU-NormCon project, Esther Barbé (UAB-IBEI), has participated in a new book edited by Cristina Ares y Luís Bouza an entitled ‘Política de la Unión European: crisis y continuidad’ (Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas 2019).
Esther Barbé has contributed with the chapter ‘The EU and the institutions of global governance’. Barbé analyzes the EU’s identity in the field of global governance, and more precisely, the narrative of effective multilateralism embedded since 2003 the EU actions towards global institutions. The chapter pays attention to the mounting difficulties that the EU is encountering to remain an influential actor, and thus the ever lower chances of exerting the leading role in global governance.