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From GATT to the WTO: The Internal Struggle for External Competences in the EU
Author(s) -
BILLIET STIJN
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
jcms: journal of common market studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.54
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1468-5965
pISSN - 0021-9886
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2006.00667.x
Subject(s) - european commission , phenomenon , context (archaeology) , political science , commission , international trade , law and economics , political economy , sociology , epistemology , business , european union , law , philosophy , geography , archaeology
Abstract Despite the rise of ‘mixity’, the Commission is nonetheless the key European player in the WTO, even regarding issues that are not exclusive EC competences. While established integration theories struggle to explain this phenomenon, this article argues that the external institutional context should be brought into the analysis.