1st Edition

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

By Katharina L. Meissner Copyright 2018
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The European Union (EU) is at the forefront of engaging in external trade relations outside of the World Trade Organization (WTO) with entire regions and economic powerhouses. Understanding why and how the EU engages in one of the most active fields of external relations is crucial. This book fills a gap in the literature by analysing motives on the modes – bilateralism, inter-regionalism, or... Read more

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

Biography

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.