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Constructing European Union Trade Policy: A Global Idea of Europe

Constructing European Union Trade Policy: A Global Idea of Europe

Loparo, Kenneth A.

Hardcover

Series: International Political Economy

EconomicsGeneral Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 1137331658
ISBN13: 9781137331656
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Feb 18 2014
Pages: 258
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
With the stagnation of the Doha Round of multilateral talks, trade liberalisation is increasingly undertaken through free trade agreements. Gabriel Siles-Brügge examines the EU's decision - following the 2006 'Global Europe' strategy - to negotiate such agreements with emerging economies. Eschewing the purely materialist explanations prominent in the field, he develops a novel constructivist argument to highlight the role of language and ideas in shaping EU trade policy. Drawing on extensive interviews and documentary analysis, Siles-Brügge shows how EU trade policymakers have privileged the interests of exporters to the detriment of import-competing groups, creating an ideational imperative for market-opening. Even during the on-going economic crisis the overriding mantra has been that the EU's future well-being depends on its ability to compete in global markets. The increasingly neoliberal orientation of EU trade policy has also had important consequences for its economic diplomacy with the developing economies of the African, Caribbean and Pacific group of states.

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