The Trade-Development Nexus in the European Union: Differentiation, Coherence and Norms

ISBN-13: 9780367739140 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 132 str.

Maurizio Carbone; Jan Orbie

Opis

Although the EU is still the world’s largest market and the biggest aid donor, its policies in the trade-development nexus have been seriously challenged in recent years. This volume offers new perspectives on the evolution of the EU’s trade relations with developing countries, going beyond the controversial and extensively researched Economic P

Spis treści

1. Beyond Economic Partnership Agreements: the European Union and the trade–development nexus  2. Trading in development: norms and institutions in the making/unmaking of European Union–African, Caribbean and Pacific trade and development cooperation  3. Decent work and indecent trade agendas: the European Union and ACP countries  4. Differentiation within reciprocity: the European Union approach to preferential trade agreements  5. EU trade and development policy beyond the ACP: subordinating developmental to commercial imperatives in the reform of GSP  6. Sanctions under the EU Generalised System of Preferences and foreign policy: coherence by accident?  7. Challenging the European Union: the rising powers and the USA in the Doha Round  8. Tensions in the discourse and practice of the European Union’s Aid for Trade  9. Much ado about nothing? The European Union and the global politics of untying aid  10. The value of pointillism? Integrating trade and development and the European Union as a global actor

O autorze

Maurizio Carbone is Professor of International Relations and Development and Jean Monnet Professor of EU External Policies at the University of Glasgow. He has published on EU external relations, most specifically foreign aid, policy coherence for development, and EU-Africa relations.

Jan Orbie is Professor and Director of the Centre for EU Studies at Ghent University (Belgium). He has extensively published on the European Union’s global role, including the trade-development nexus.