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The Political Economy of Normative Trade Power Europe

Author : Arlo Poletti,Daniela Sicurelli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319788647

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The Political Economy of Normative Trade Power Europe by Arlo Poletti,Daniela Sicurelli Pdf

This book critically engages with a long tradition of scholarly work that conceives of the European Union as a peculiar international actor that pursues a value-based, normatively oriented and development-friendly agenda in its relations with international partners. The EU is a pivotal player in international trade relations, holding formidable power in trade but also exercising substantial power through trade. Trade policy therefore represents a strategic field for the EU to shape its image as a healthy economy and a global power. In this field, the EU has declared a twofold ambitious goal, namely that of fostering economic growth in Europe while, at the same time, promoting development and growth abroad, both in developed and developing countries. In other words, the EU aims to increase its competitiveness in world trade while acting as an ethical and normative power. Here, Poletti and Sicurelli explore the tension between these two roles.

Norms over Force

Author : Z. Laïdi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230614062

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Norms over Force by Z. Laïdi Pdf

Can Europe defend its social model in a globalized world when the US, China, India and Russia are enhancing their national sovereignties and playing power politics? This original and informative book addresses such questions and considers if Europe, although it is not a 'super state', would be able to impose norms over force.

Standardizing the World

Author : Francesco Duina,Crina Viju-Miljusevic
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197681893

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Standardizing the World by Francesco Duina,Crina Viju-Miljusevic Pdf

The EU has pursued many trade pacts across the world. This is part of its foreign policy: as the third largest economy in the world and lacking hard power, the EU relies on trade agreements to project its interests. These are often complex and far-reaching initiatives that have the potential to shape not only economic but also political and social life in the EU and its trading partners. In Standardizing the World, Francesco Duina and Crina Viju-Miljusevic have gathered a group of leading experts to present an unprecedented assessment of the EU's efforts to standardize a wide array of economic, political, and social aspects of life through its trade agreements across the globe. Drawing on economic sociology and constructivist strands in international political economy, the volume examines what is being standardized, the extent to which the EU has been able to project its worldviews, and what explains the observable patterns of standardization across policy areas and geographies. Ten leading scholars from across the world offer as many chapters on EU agreements with all major trading partners and cover efforts in social and labor rights, the environment, investments, rule of law and anti-corruption, agriculture and food quality, services, public procurement, sustainable development, and more. Their findings paint a picture of a dynamic EU capable of projecting its worldviews across the globe that is nonetheless not always consistent or successful. Standardizing the World provides a wide-ranging and rigorous understanding of standardization in trade agreement as well as the EU's abilities to project its power and worldviews across the globe.

EU Development Policies

Author : Sarah L. Beringer,Sylvia Maier,Markus Thiel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030013073

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EU Development Policies by Sarah L. Beringer,Sylvia Maier,Markus Thiel Pdf

“An excellent collection of essays that illustrate how EU member states’ wish to implement normatively inspired policies is confronted with the geopolitical realities of today’s world. The authors succeed in presenting an even-handed account of the way in which the tensions between norms and geopolitics play out, as well as of the responses given by EU policy makers.” —Wil Hout, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, the Netherlands The European Union (EU), while collectively constituting the world’s largest development provider, has come under internal and external pressures over the past decade. This book argues that the EU’s development policies are situated between the bloc’s normative ideals and the global geopolitical realities in which it is embedded. In order to investigate these tensions, it asks how far the 'normative power' Europe concept exists in EU development policies, and how far it is recognizable in the EU’s focus on human rights, the rule of law, and sustainability. In light of the tension in EU development policies between those ideals and the necessity to project neoliberal and geopolitical interests, how do receiving countries perceive the EU’s development efforts? This volume, complete with contributions from academics from a wide range of disciplines based all around the globe, provides answers to these essential questions.

Democracy Promotion and the Normative Power Europe Framework

Author : Marek Neuman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319926902

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Democracy Promotion and the Normative Power Europe Framework by Marek Neuman Pdf

This book presents a topical, holistic assessment of the European Union’s democracy promotion in South-East Europe, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, analyzed through the prism of the Normative Power Europe (NPE) framework of transnational policy formation. To do so, it brings together three scholarly domains that traditionally stand apart and are discussed separately. The first addresses the notion of the European Union conducting a normatively-driven foreign policy both near and far abroad. The second is concerned with the legitimacy, operationality, and effectiveness of promoting democracy in third-world countries. The third addresses the quality of the relationship the European Union has been able to establish with some vital – yet often troubled – countries in South-East Europe, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. Finally, based on the empirical findings presented in each chapter, this volume concludes by rethinking the concept and relevance of NPE to the field’s understanding of the EU’s foreign policy making. This edited volume offers the reader both a theoretically and empirically rich analysis of the European Union’s efforts to promote democracy abroad. As such is scholars and students of EU studies, particularly EU foreign policy, as well as policy makers at EU and national level and civil society representatives responsible for designing/implementing democracy promoting projects on the ground.

Parochial Global Europe

Author : Alasdair R. Young,John Peterson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191017094

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Parochial Global Europe by Alasdair R. Young,John Peterson Pdf

Europe's trade policies matter in global politics. Despite the recent focus on Brazil, India, and particularly China, the European Union remains the world's largest market and trader. Despite its recent economic troubles, Europe remains in a powerful position to shape how globalization is governed. We know surprisingly little about how its trade policy is actually made, because previous works have focused on individual trade policy decisions to the detriment of the 'big picture' of the Union as a trade power. Parochial Global Europe argues that trade policy is composed of multiple, distinct policies. Each presents a distinctive constellation of mobilized societal preferences, pattern of political institutions, and range of government preferences. The balance of economic power between the EU and its trade partner(s) affects the stakes involved. Together these four factors define trade policy sub-systems, which help explain both the EU's objectives and whether it realizes them. The authors advance this argument by analysing the EU's role in the demise of the Doha Round, its use of anti-dumping and pursuit of market access, the trade effects of its single market programme and efforts at regulatory diplomacy, including the launch of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations. Parochial Global Europe thus focuses centrally on modern, 21st century trade policy. It also sheds light on the EU as a global actor by analysing its use of trade policy as a tool of foreign policy from promoting development, to encouraging human rights and environmental protection, to punishing security threats.

The European Union as a Global Actor

Author : Susanne Lütz,Tobias Leeg,Daniel Otto,Vincent Woyames Dreher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030766756

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The European Union as a Global Actor by Susanne Lütz,Tobias Leeg,Daniel Otto,Vincent Woyames Dreher Pdf

This book focuses on the European Union as an important actor in international relations and international political economy. The EU negotiates international economic agreements, represents Europe in international organizations, and is a major trading bloc and currency area. To what extent and under what conditions the EU can use its considerable economic power to assert its interests in the international arena is a relevant question for students, researchers and practitioners alike. To explore this question, the textbook introduces the concept of “actorness” and presents an overview of the actorness debate and theories used to explain actorness. In addition, it includes three empirical chapters on trade, finance and climate policy that apply various concepts and theories to study European actorness in the respective policy areas.

Power in North-South Trade Negotiations

Author : Peg Murray-Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351588867

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Power in North-South Trade Negotiations by Peg Murray-Evans Pdf

Advancing a constructivist conceptual approach, this book explains the surprising outcome of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union and developing countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (the ACP countries). Despite the EU’s huge market power, it had limited success with the EPAs; an outcome that confounds materialist narratives equating trade power with market size. Why was the EU unable to fully realise its prospectus for trade and regulatory liberalisation through the EPA negotiations? Emphasising the role of social legitimacy in asymmetrical North–South trade negotiations, Murray-Evans sets the EPAs within the broader context of an institutionally complex global trade regime and stresses the agency of both weak and strong actors in contesting trade rules and practices across multilateral, regional and bilateral negotiating settings. Empirical chapters approach the EPA process from different institutional angles to explain and map the genesis, design, promotion and ultimately limited impact of the EU’s ambitious prospectus for the EPAs. This volume will be particularly relevant to students and scholars of international trade and development and the EU as an international actor, as well as those researching international political economy, African politics and international trade law.

Normative Power Europe

Author : R. Whitman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230305601

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The notion of Normative Power Europe (NPE) is that the EU is an 'ideational' actor characterised by common principles and acting to diffuse norms within international relations. Contributors assess the impact of NPE and offer new perspectives for the future exploration of one of the most widely used ideas in the study of the EU in the last decade.

European Union Trade Politics and Development

Author : Gerrit Faber,Jan Orbie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134092574

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European Union Trade Politics and Development by Gerrit Faber,Jan Orbie Pdf

The ‘Everything But Arms’ (EBA) regulation of the European Union (EU) has been hailed as a groundbreaking initiative for developing countries. Since 2001 EBA grants almost completely liberalized access to the European market for products from the least-developed countries (LDCs). It quickly became the most symbolic European trade initiative towards the Third World since the first Lomé Convention in the 1970s. Given its central position in EU discourse and its continuing relevance for the European and international trade agenda, this book attempts to present a thorough analysis of EBA. ‘European Union Trade Politics and Development’ contains contributions from a diverse range of scholars who collectively present a comprehensive picture of EBA. This volume also contains a broader analysis of EU trade politics towards the South, focusing on agricultural policy reform, Europe’s evolving relationship with ACP countries (ex-colonies from Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific), it links EBA with Europe’s negotiating position within the World Trade Organization. Contributions to this volume also consider the continuing negotiation leverage of EBA within the Doha Development Agenda, make comparisons with United States trade policy vis-à-vis the LDCs, and focus on the economic effectiveness of EBA in terms of its stated objectives as well as on the institutional skirmishing within the EU.

Commercial Realism and EU Trade Policy

Author : Katharina L. Meissner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351047623

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Commercial Realism and EU Trade Policy by Katharina L. Meissner Pdf

The European Union (EU) is at the forefront of engaging in external trade relations outside of the World Trade Organization (WTO) with entire regions and economic powerhouses. Understanding why and how the EU engages in one of the most active fields of external relations is crucial. This book fills a gap in the literature by analysing motives on the modes – bilateralism, inter-regionalism, or multilateralism - of EU external trade relations towards regional organizations in Asia and Latin America outside of the WTO. In particular, it examines why the EU turned from interregional to bilateral external trade relations towards these world regions – a question that is, to date, under-researched. By developing and testing an original approach rooted in realist theorizing coined ‘commercial realism’, it examines systematically the explanatory power of commercial realism against liberal-institutionalist approaches dominant in the literature on EU external relations through five in-depth case studies. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students in EU Politics/Studies, EU external relations, inter-regionalism and more broadly to International Relations and International Political Economy.

The Political Economy of European Integration

Author : Erik Jones,Amy Verdun
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415340632

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The Political Economy of European Integration by Erik Jones,Amy Verdun Pdf

This book provides an accessible introduction to diverse political economy perspectives on different aspects of European integration. It presents a critical appraisal of how scholars in the EU and US use theory to understand European integration.

The European Union’s New Foreign Policy

Author : Martin Westlake
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030483173

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The European Union’s New Foreign Policy by Martin Westlake Pdf

This volume brings together senior practitioners and academic specialists to consider how the EU’s new foreign policy has been evolving and how the various actors are maintaining the holistic approach intended by the draftsmen of the 2009 Lisbon Treaty.

International Relations and the European Union

Author : Christopher Hill,Michael Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199544806

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International Relations and the European Union by Christopher Hill,Michael Smith Pdf

This text explores the ways in which the European Union frames and conducts its international relations. Each chapter deals with the three key themes of the volume - the EU as a sub-system of international relations, the EU and the processes of international relations, and the EU as a power.

European Union Economic Diplomacy

Author : Stephen Woolcock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317139249

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European Union Economic Diplomacy by Stephen Woolcock Pdf

The European Union is a key player in international economic relations, but its exact role and how it goes about making decisions and negotiating is often poorly understood within and especially outside the EU. When does the EU play a proactive role and when does it follow? When is the EU a distinct actor and when is it just one level in a multi- level process of negotiation in which the member states are the main actors? Does the EU possess normative power in external economic relations? Does the EU have the capability and willingness to use its still significant economic power? European Union Economic Diplomacy provides the first comprehensive analysis of the factors that determine the role of the EU in economic diplomacy. In an up-to-date treatment that includes consideration of the impact of the Treaty of Lisbon, it contains a comprehensive explanation of decision making and negotiating processes in the core areas of trade, financial market regulation, environmental diplomacy and development co-operation. The book is intended for those interested in EU policy making, but also those who simply need to understand how the EU functions in the field of economic diplomacy.