European Union Trade Politics and Development - ''Everything But Arms'' Unravelled

Informationen zum Autor Gerrit Faber is Associate Professor of International Economics at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Jan Orbie is Assistant Professor in EU Politics at Ghent University, Belgium. Klappentext Well-structured and addressing a range of carefully selected topics in a logical order, this book, with contributions from a diverse range scholars, explores each important aspect of EBA in a broad and comprehensive analysis. Zusammenfassung Well-structured and addressing a range of carefully selected topics in a logical order, this book, with contributions from a diverse range scholars, explores each important aspect of EBA in a broad and comprehensive analysis. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: The Relevance of EBA for Europe’s Trade and Development Policies 2. The Development of EBA 3. The North-South Dimension within the European Union: Conflicts over EBA 4. Bureaucratic Competition in EU Trade Policy: EBA as a Case of Competing Two-level Games 5. The Political Dynamics behind US and EU Trade Initiatives Towards the Least-developed Countries 6. Unilateral Trade Preferences of the US and the EU: Their Effectiveness for Sub-Saharan Exports and the Role of Geography and Institutions 7. Unilateral Trade Preferences of the US and the EU: Their Effectiveness and the Role of the Rules of Origin in the Apparel Sector 8. Symbolic and Effective?: An LDC Perspective on Duty- and Quota Free Market Access 9. The Significance of the EBA Scheme for CAP Reform 10. X EBA and the EU Sugar Market: Development Gift or Trojan Horse? 11. EU-ACP Negotiations on Regional Partnership Agreements and EBA 12. Normative Power Europe?: EBA, Economic Partnership Agreements and Benevolent Self-images. Conclusion: All About Nothing?

Product details

• Authors: Gerrit Orbie Faber
• Assisted by: Gerrit Faber (Editor), Faber Gerrit (Editor), Jan Orbie (Editor), Orbie Jan (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.03.2007
• EAN: 9780415426275
• ISBN: 978-0-415-42627-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Politics & government, International Economics, Political Economy, Politics and government, Development Studies, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, International Trade, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Economics & Trade