TY - JOUR
T1 - The EU’s interactions with formal intergovernmental organizations
T2 - a big data analysis of news media
AU - Saz Carranza, A.
AU - Vandendriessche, Marie
AU - Nguyen, Jenn
AU - Agell, N.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the European Commission Horizon 2020 Research & Innovation programme under Grant Agreement 822654 [H2020 822654]. Yoram Haftel shared the updated data for Measuring International Authority to 2019 with us. Patrizia Cogo and Cristina de Esperanza provided vital research assistance during the project. The information reflects only the authors’ views and the European Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Interactions between the EU and IGOs ˗ such as joint statements, verbal public disagreements, formal cooperation agreements, and IGO dispute resolution involving the EU ˗ have increased in the past decades. We address the question What determines the EU’s interactions with formal IGOs? by carrying out a big data-based sentiment analysis of all news published online between 1999 and 2017. Using over 30,000 events machine-coded by the Global Data Event Language and Tone (GDELT) database, we construct an annual measure for the dyadic relations between the EU and 36 formal IGOs. We find that when the EU has observer or member status in an IGO, this significantly and positively affects the quantity of interactions, while increasing the level of conflict in these interactions. Policy overlap between the EU and the IGO also increases the level of conflict in their interactions. Surprisingly, IGO authority is not relevant for these interactions.
AB - Interactions between the EU and IGOs ˗ such as joint statements, verbal public disagreements, formal cooperation agreements, and IGO dispute resolution involving the EU ˗ have increased in the past decades. We address the question What determines the EU’s interactions with formal IGOs? by carrying out a big data-based sentiment analysis of all news published online between 1999 and 2017. Using over 30,000 events machine-coded by the Global Data Event Language and Tone (GDELT) database, we construct an annual measure for the dyadic relations between the EU and 36 formal IGOs. We find that when the EU has observer or member status in an IGO, this significantly and positively affects the quantity of interactions, while increasing the level of conflict in these interactions. Policy overlap between the EU and the IGO also increases the level of conflict in their interactions. Surprisingly, IGO authority is not relevant for these interactions.
KW - International organizations
KW - conflict
KW - cooperation
KW - interorganizational relations
KW - natural language processing
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U2 - 10.1080/07036337.2022.2074982
DO - 10.1080/07036337.2022.2074982
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85135820445
SN - 0703-6337
VL - 44
SP - 635
EP - 655
JO - Journal of European Integration
JF - Journal of European Integration
IS - 5
ER -