Commercial Realism and Eu Trade Policy - Competing for Economic Power in Asia and the Americas

This book fills a gap in the literature by analysing motives on the modes - bilateralism, inter-regionalism, or multilateralism - of EU external trade relations towards regional organizations in Asia and Latin America outside of the WTO.

List of contents

Part I: Theory, Hypotheses and Process-tracing 1. Introduction: Designing European Union Trade Policy 2. Theorizing European Union Trade Policy Part II: World Regions in European Union Trade Policy 3. The European Union in Latin America in Light of United States’ Dominance 4. The European Union and Southeast Asia in the Shadow of China’s Hegemony 5. European Union External Trade Relations and its Partner Regions Part III: Comparison and Conclusion 6. Economic Power and European Union Trade Policy

About the author

Katharina L. Meissner is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for European Integration Research EIF at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her work has been published in a number of journals such as the European Foreign Affairs Review, the Journal of Common Market Studies, and the Journal of European Integration.

Summary

This book fills a gap in the literature by analysing motives on the modes – bilateralism, inter-regionalism, or multilateralism - of EU external trade relations towards regional organizations in Asia and Latin America outside of the WTO.

Product details

• Authors: Katharina L. Meissner, Katharina L. (University of Vienna Meissner
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781138485945
• ISBN: 978-1-138-48594-5
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies; Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, International Economics, Political Economy, EU (European Union), International institutions, EU & European institutions, International Trade