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Constructing European Union Trade Policy

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137331663

ISBN: 978-1-349-46142-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Dec 5, 2015

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Introduction

Siles-Brügge, Gabriel

Pages: 1 –20

[The European economy stands or falls on our ability to keep markets open, to open new markets, and to develop new areas where Europe’s inventors, investors, entrepreneurs can trade. We should pursue this objective by every means we can. Peter Mandelson (2005c: 4, emphasis added), European...
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Trade Is What You Make of It: The Social Construction of EU Commercial Policy

Siles-Brügge, Gabriel

Pages: 21 –56

[In the previous chapter I showed how much of the literature on EU trade policy has tended to work with an implicit acceptance that the EU is somehow an ‘exceptional’ entity as a result of its institutional structure, with the latter seen as the main factor explaining EU trade policy. This body...
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Charting the Rise of ‘Global Europe’

Siles-Brügge, Gabriel

Pages: 57 –95

[‘Global Europe’ was the defining document in EU trade policy from 2006 until late 2010, when it was superseded by the 2010 ‘Trade, Growth and World Affairs’ strategy (see Chapter 6). After the long strategic lull that followed the failure of the EU’s ambitious Doha agenda at Cancún — and given...
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Resisting ‘Protectionism’: The EU-Korea Free Trade Agreement

Siles-Brügge, Gabriel

Pages: 97 –124

[In October 2009, after a series of controversial talks, the EU and South Korea initialled (provisionally signed) the FTA they had been negotiating for just over two years. The agreement was then approved by the Member States in October 2010, ratified by the EP in February 2011 and implemented in...
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‘Global Europe’ and the Economic Partnership Agreements

Siles-Brügge, Gabriel

Pages: 125 –158

[In ‘Global Europe’ the Commission was careful to distinguish between Europe’s ‘ain trade interests’ predominantly in East and South Asia, and its trade agreements with the ACP — seen as the flagship of its development policy — which supposedly served ‘evelopment objectives’ (European Commission...
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‘Global Europe’ during the Crisis: Reciprocity and the Political Limits to Liberalisation

Siles-Brügge, Gabriel

Pages: 159 –185

[Earlier in the book, I provided a glimpse into the EU’s trade policy after the start of the Financial Crisis by focusing on the signature and ratification of the first ‘Global Europe’ FTA, signed with South Korea in 2010. The aim in this chapter is to provide more detailed analysis of how the...
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Conclusion

Siles-Brügge, Gabriel

Pages: 187 –201

[The main argument in this book has been that trade is what actors make of it; ‘a global idea of Europe’ has been reproduced by actors and has led to an increasingly neoliberal orientation in EU trade policy. The more specific aim I set up in the introduction was to address three separate, albeit...

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