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Trade Politics Ain't What It Used to Be: The European Union in the Doha Round *
Author(s) -
YOUNG ALASDAIR R.
Publication year - 2007
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.1468-5965.2007.00748.x
Subject(s) - negotiation , commercial policy , european union , position (finance) , politics , international trade , political science , trade union , trade barrier , international free trade agreement , economics , international economics , political economy , law , finance
The European Union is a key player in the Doha Development Round of multilateral trade negotiations. This article argues that its negotiating position reflects distinctive patterns of politics underlying three aspects of trade policy – traditional trade policy, commercial policy and social trade policy – characterized by different sets of actors and political dynamics. Although there is significant variation in the substance of the EU's position within each aspect of trade policy, their distinctive patterns of politics help to explain why the EU's negotiating position is most liberal in traditional trade policy and least in social trade policy.