Power in North-South Trade Negotiations: Making the European Union's Economic Partnership Agreements

ISBN-13: 9780367584832 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 164 str.

Peg Murray-Evans

Opis

This book explains the outcome of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) which confound materialist narratives equating trade power with market size.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Power, Institutions and Legitimacy in Trade Politics 3. The Evolving Rules and Practice of Trade with Developing Countries: From Lomé to Cotonou 4. North-South PTAs and the Multilateral System: Contesting The EPAs 5. Regionalisms Collide: The EPAs in Africa 6. Institutions and Agency on the Periphery: The SADC EPA 7. Conclusion

O autorze

Peg Murray-Evans is a research associate in the Department of Politics at the University of York. Her research explores the way in which power in global economic governance is shaped by claims to legitimacy and the institutional structures in and through which these claims are made, with a particular focus on development and the Global South. She has worked and published on topics including the role of South Africa as a ‘rising power’ in global governance, European Union trade and development policy and the UK’s relationship with the Commonwealth after Brexit. Her research has been published in European Journal of International Relations, Third World Quarterly and The Round Table.