The TradeDevelopment Nexus in the European Union
This volume offers new perspectives on the evolution of the tradedevelopment nexus in the European Union against dramatic changes in the international context. Without disregarding them, it seeks to go beyond the controversial and extensively researched Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). In particular, it focuses on the reform of the Generalised System of Preferences, the negotiation of various Preferential Trade Agreements, the application of trade sanctions, the allegedly ambitious agendas on decent work, Aid for Trade and aid untying, and the implications of the changing balance of power in global economic relations. Taking diverse approaches and, at times, reaching different conclusions, contributors directly or indirectly address one or more of the three general themes of the book: differentiation, coherence and norms.
This book was previously published as a special issue of Contemporary Politics.
Maurizio Carbone is Professor of International Relations and Development and Jean Monnet Professor of EU External Policies at the University of Glasgow, UK. He has published on EU external relations, most specifically foreign aid, policy coherence for development, and EUAfrica relations.
Jan Orbie is Professor of EU External Relations in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Centre for EU Studies at Ghent University, Belgium. He has extensively published on the European Unions global role, including the tradedevelopment nexus.
The TradeDevelopment Nexus
in the European Union
Differentiation, Coherence and Norms
Edited by
Maurizio Carbone and Jan Orbie
First published 2015
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Contents
Maurizio Carbone and Jan Orbie
Tony Heron
Mark Langan
Stephen Woolcock
Gabriel Siles-Brgge
Clara Portela and Jan Orbie
Anders Ahnlid and Ole Elgstrm
Patrick Holden
Maurizio Carbone
Alasdair R. Young
The chapters in this book were originally published in Contemporary Politics, volume 20, issue 1 (March 2014). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
Beyond Economic Partnership Agreements: the European Union and the tradedevelopment nexus
Maurizio Carbone and Jan Orbie
Contemporary Politics, volume 20, issue 1 (March 2014) pp. 19
Chapter 2
Trading in development: norms and institutions in the making/unmaking of European UnionAfrican, Caribbean and Pacific trade and development cooperation
Tony Heron
Contemporary Politics, volume 20, issue 1 (March 2014) pp. 1022
Chapter 3
Decent work and indecent trade agendas: the European Union and ACP countries
Mark Langan
Contemporary Politics, volume 20, issue 1 (March 2014) pp. 2335
Chapter 4
Differentiation within reciprocity: the European Union approach to preferential trade agreements
Stephen Woolcock
Contemporary Politics, volume 20, issue 1 (March 2014) pp. 3648
Chapter 5
EU trade and development policy beyond the ACP: subordinating developmental to commercial imperatives in the reform of GSP
Gabriel Siles-Brgge
Contemporary Politics, volume 20, issue 1 (March 2014) pp. 4962
Chapter 6
Sanctions under the EU Generalised System of Preferences and foreign policy: coherence by accident?
Clara Portela and Jan Orbie
Contemporary Politics, volume 20, issue 1 (March 2014) pp. 6376
Chapter 7
Challenging the European Union: the rising powers and the USA in the Doha Round
Anders Ahnlid and Ole Elgstrm
Contemporary Politics, volume 20, issue 1 (March 2014) pp. 7789
Chapter 8
Tensions in the discourse and practice of the European Unions Aid for Trade
Patrick Holden
Contemporary Politics, volume 20, issue 1 (March 2014) pp. 90102
Chapter 9
Much ado about nothing? The European Union and the global politics of untying aid
Maurizio Carbone
Contemporary Politics, volume 20, issue 1 (March 2014) pp. 103117
Chapter 10
The value of pointillism? Integrating trade and development and the European Union as a global actor
Alasdair R. Young
Contemporary Politics, volume 20, issue 1 (March 2014) pp. 118126
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Anders Ahnlid is Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sweden to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium.
Maurizio Carbone is Professor of International Relations and Development and Jean Monnet Professor of EU External Policies at the University of Glasgow, UK.
Ole Elgstrm is Professor of Politics at the Department of Political Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Tony Heron is Professor of International Politics at the Department of Politics, University of York, York, UK.
Patrick Holden is Lecturer in International Relations at the School of Government, Plymouth University, UK.
Mark Langan is Senior Lecturer at Politics and Applied Global Ethics (PAGE), Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK.
Jan Orbie is Professor of EU External Relations at the Department of Political Science, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Clara Portela is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Singapore Management University, Singapore.