The European Union as a conflicted trade power

被引:174
作者
Meunier, Sophie
Nicolaidis, Kalypso
机构
[1] Princeton Univ, Woodrow Wilson Sch Publ & Int Affairs, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[2] Univ Oxford, Oxford OX2 6JF, England
关键词
conflict; Europe; globalization; legitimacy; market; power; trade;
D O I
10.1080/13501760600838623
中图分类号
D0 [政治学、政治理论];
学科分类号
0302 ; 030201 ;
摘要
The EU is a formidable power in trade. Structurally, the sheer size of its market and its more than forty-year experience of negotiating international trade agreements have made it the most powerful trading bloc in the world. Much more problematically, the EU is also becoming a power through trade. Increasingly, it uses market access as a bargaining chip to obtain changes in the domestic arena of its trading partners, from labour standards to development policies, and in the international arena, from global governance to foreign policy. Is the EU up to its ambitions? This article examines the underpinnings of the EU's power through trade across issue-areas and across settings ( bilateral, inter-regional, global). It then analyses the major dilemmas associated with the exercise of trade power and argues that strategies of accommodation will need to be refined in each of these realms if the EU is to successfully transform its structural power into effective, and therefore legitimate, influence.
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页码:906 / 925
页数:20
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