Module by Katie Verlin Laatikainen, Adelphi University
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The focus of this module is on the who, the how, the what and the why of EU diplomacy at the UN.  In looking at the question of who, we see that EU diplomacy involves an intricate balance of different institutional and member state diplomats at the UN in New York.  Secondly we look at the process--the how and what of EU diplomacy in New York.  EU diplomacy involves internal practices of coordination, but also external diplomacy reflected in representation and outreach.  One key area of UN multilateralism—facilitation—is used to show the continuing interaction of the EUDEL and Member states in a common approach to UN multilateralism.  Finally we examine the why:  what are the consequences of the changes in EU diplomacy, for others, for the EU and for the UN?  This module incorporates interviews with the Head of the EU Delegation to the UN.

Keywords: international diplomacy, EU delegatiuon, coordination, diplomatic practice

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Katie Verlin Laatikainen is Professor of Political Science at Adelphi University. Her research focuses broadly on international institutions, and her recent publications explore role of the EU at the United Nations.  Relevant publications include the co-edited special issue of The Hague Journal of Diplomacy (‘The Politics of UN Multilateralism’, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2017), the two-volume, co-edited The Sage Handbook of European Foreign Policy (Sage, 2015), the co-edited Routledge Handbook on the European Union and International Institutions (Routledge 2013), The European Union at the United Nations: Intersecting Multilateralisms (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) and the co-authored volume United Nations Politics: International Organization in a Divided World (Prentice-Hall 2007; reissued by Routledge 2015).

Faculty Profile: http://www.adelphi.edu/faculty/profiles/profile.php?PID=0185
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Recommended Reading on the Practice of Diplomacy and the EU Delegation to the UN
 
Introductory

• Anne De Grand Guillaud.  ‘Actors and Mechanisms in EU Coordination at the UN, European Foreign Affairs Review, 14:3, 405-30, 2009. 
• Edith Drieskens. ‘What’s in a Name? Challenges to the Creation of EU Delegations’ The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 7:1 (2012), 51-64.
• Knud Erik Jørgensen and Katie Laatikainen (eds). Routledge Handbook on the European Union and International Institutions: Performance, Policy, Power London: Routledge, 2013.
• Pedro Antonio Serrano De Haro. Participation of the EU in the work of the UN: General Assembly Resolution 65/276. The Hague, Netherlands: CLEER (Center for the Law of EU External Relations) WORKING PAPERS 2012/4.
• Michele Comelli and Raffaello Matarazzo. Rehashed Commission Delegations or Real Embassies? EU Delegations Post-Lisbon, IAI WORKING PAPERS 11, July 2011.
• Karen E. Smith. ‘The Trump administration downgraded the E.U.’s diplomatic status in Washington. That’s going to hurt.’  Monkey Cage, Washington Post, 8 January 2019.
• EU Delegation to the United Nations: website for current and archived EU statements at the UN

Advanced

• Spyros Blavoukos and Dimitrios Bourantonis (eds). The EU in UN Politics: Actors, Processes, and Performances London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Edith Drieskens and Louise G.  van Schaik (eds). The EU and Effective Multilateralism: Internal and External Reform Practices, London: Routledge, 2014
• Damien Helly, Alisa Herrero, Anna Knoll, Greta Galeazzi, & Andrew Sherriff. A closer look into EU’s external action frontline: Framing the challenges ahead for EU Delegations, Briefing Note 62, European Center for Development Policy Management, 2014.
• Katie Laatikainen. ‘The EU Delegation in New York: A Debut of High Drama’ in David Spence and Josef Bátora (eds) The European External Action Service: European Diplomacy Post-Westphalia London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
• Katie Laatikainen and Martin Palous.  Contested Ground: The Campaign to Enhance the Status of the European Union in the UN General Assembly. GLOBUS Research Paper 9/2018. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3206532 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3206532
• Katie Laatikainen and Karen E. Smith (Eds).  ‘The Multilateral Politics of UN Diplomacy’ Special Issue of The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 12:2-3 (2017), 95-255.
• Iver B. Neumann. At Home with the Diplomats: Inside a European Foreign Ministry. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012.
• Vincent Pouliot. International Pecking Orders: the Politics and Practice of Multilateral Diplomacy. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
• David Spence and Josef Bátora (eds). The European External Action Service: European Diplomacy Post-Westphalia, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.