Shaping the global communications milieu : the
EU’s influence on Internet and telecommunications
governance

Christou, G; Simpson, S

Abstract

This article evaluates the European Union’s (EU) influence in shaping
the global governance for telecommunications and the Internet. Through analysing
EU behaviour within an actorness framework, we demonstrate how the external
opportunity structure and the EU’s internal environment has impacted on its
ability to exert and maximize its presence in order to meet its goals and aims in
these two very different sub-sectors of global communications in terms of evolution
and development. Such a comparison of EU actorness, we argue, is revealing
in terms of uncovering the underlying factors and conditions that allow the EU to
influence two important and dynamic communications sub-sectors.

Citation

governance. Comparative European Politics, 12(1), 54-75. https://doi.org/10.1057/cep.2012.33

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Oct 29, 2012
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2014
• Deposit Date: Jan 29, 2015
• Journal: Comparative European Politics
• Print ISSN: 1472-4790
• Electronic ISSN: 1740-388X
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 54-75
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/cep.2012.33
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/cep.2012.33
• Related Public URLs: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/cep/