Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction: The Rise of Parliamentary Diplomacy in International Politics

Part 1 EU Context

Chapter 1 World Diplomacy of the European Parliament

Chapter 2 The Role of the European Parliament President in Parliamentary Diplomacy

Chapter 3 The Diplomatic Role of the European Parliament’s Standing Committees, Delegations and Assemblies: Insights from ACP–EU Inter-ParliamentaryCooperation

Chapter 4 The Diplomatic Role of the European Parliament’s Political Groups in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Chapter 5The International Role of the European Parliament’s Intergroups

Part 2 Wider Europe and EU Relations with the World

Chapter 6 The EU–Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee and Turkey’s EU Accession Process

Chapter 7 The Impact of Parliamentary Diplomacy, Civil Society and Human Rights Advocacy on EU Strategic Partners: The Case of Mexico

Chapter 8 A Bridge with Russia? The Parliamentary Assemblies of the OSCE and of the Council of Europe in the Russia-Ukraine Crisis

Chapter 9 The South-East European Cooperation Process and Its New Parliamentary Assembly: Regional Dialogue in Action

Chapter 10 The Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean and Its Contribution to Democracy Promotion and Crisis Management

Part 3 Global Context

Chapter 11 Parliamentary Diplomacy and the US Congress: The Case of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly

Chapter 12 Challenges for Parliamentary Diplomacy in South and South-East Asia and Europe: A Practitioner’s Perspective

Chapter 13 Parliamentary Diplomacy in the Chinese Constitution and Foreign Policy

Chapter 14 Parliamentary Diplomacy in Northeast Asia: Lessons from the Parliamentarians’ Unions in Japan and South Korea

Chapter 15 Australia’s Parliamentary Diplomacy: A Study of the Bilateral Relationship with South Korea

Chapter 16 Regional Integration and Parliamentary Diplomacy: Experiences of the MERCOSUR, Andean and Latin American Parliaments

Chapter 17 Understanding Success and Failure in the Quest for Peace: The Pan-African Parliament and the Amani Forum

Chapter 18 South Africa’s Parliamentary Diplomacy and the ‘African Agenda’

Conclusions: Parliamentary Diplomacy as a Global Phenomenon

Index