A Geo-Economic Turn in Trade Policy?: EU Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific Johan Adriaensen

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• ISBN 10: 3030812812
• ISBN 13: 9783030812812
• Author:Johan Adriaensen

Contemporary trade policy is increasingly framed in geo-strategic terms. But how much of that rhetoric is reflected in actual policy choices by the EU or its trading partners? This book provides a first systematic study of the broader international context in which EU trade agreements are conceived, negotiated, and designed. Building on a refined conceptualisation of geo-economics, the book develops a cogent framework that combines insights from scholarship on the design of free trade agreements with ideas from foreign policy analysis. Empirically, the analysis focuses on the relations between the EU and the Asia-Pacific. Following the United States’ pivot to Asia and the EU’s Global Europe strategy, China’s backyard has become the main arena in which global powers’ geo-economic strategies overlap. Building on a series of case-studies, combining the perspectives from the EU and its trading partners, the book shows that the rhetoric of geo-economic competition is yet to catch up with the actual negotiation and design of free trade agreements. This volume will be of great interest to scholars, students and practitioners who want to gain a holistic understanding of contemporary trade negotiations.

Table contents:

Part I. Introduction
1. Geo-economic Motives and the Negotiation of Free Trade Agreements: Introduction
Part II. A Geo-Economic Trade Environment
2. The Politics of FTAs in Asia: The Role of China and Implications for EU Trade Policy
3. US Trade Policy: Japan vs. China, from Politically Economic to Existential
4. Global Value Chains and EU–East Asia Trade: An Antidote for Geo-Economic Competition?
Part III. Designing Geo-Economic Trade Agreements
5. Intellectual Property Rights. EU and US Initiatives in the Asia–Pacific: Competition, Coordination or Duplication?
6. Most-Favoured Nation Clauses: A Double-Edged Sword in a Geo-Economic Era
7. Product Regulations: You Can Drive My Car, Otherwise Let It Be
8. Rules of Origin: Bridging Regions to Withstand Turbulent Times
9. Sustainable Development in EU–Asia Trade Relations
Part IV. Case Studies
10. EU and South Korea: A Model Example for Foreign Trade Policy Relations?
11. Australia and the EU: From Trade Tensions to FTA Negotiations
12. EU–Singapore Negotiations: Overlapping Negotiations, Conflicting Interests?
13. The Vietnam-European Union Free Trade Agreement: Victim of Changing Times?
14. EU-Indonesia Trade Relations
Part V. Conclusion
15. Geo-Economic Motives in EU FTA’s with the Asia–Pacific: More Discourse Than Design?

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