Competitive Liberalisation and the ‘Global Europe’ Services and Investment Agenda: Locating the Commercial Drivers of the EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements

Tony Heron

doi:10.1111/j.1468-5965.2011.02220.x

Competitive Liberalisation and the ‘Global Europe’ Services and Investment Agenda: Locating the Commercial Drivers of the EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements

Tony Heron

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Abstract

In the last decade the European Union (EU) has been negotiating with the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of countries to establish Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). In this article, EPAs are located within the context of the wider shift in EU trade policy towards bilateralism. This is done with reference to recent work in International Political Economy (IPE) emphasizing the ‘domestic-societal’ and ‘systemic’ drivers of preferential liberalization. Although these pressures are not necessarily sufficient to explain the EPAs, they do account for why they have gone beyond the original remit of ‘World Trade Organization (WTO) compatibility’ and why aspects of the agreements bear close similarity to the EU's supposedly more commercially oriented bilateral agreements.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	250–266
Number of pages	17
Journal	JCMS-JOURNAL OF COMMON MARKET STUDIES
Volume	50
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5965.2011.02220.x
Publication status	Published - Mar 2012

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