From Idealism to Realism? EU Preferential Trade Agreement Policy
From Idealism to Realism? EU Preferential Trade Agreement Policy
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从理想主义到现实主义？
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
Marian Garcia
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作者：
Marian Garcia
本文探讨了欧盟在贸易中的“冲突权力”如何在其与第三方的优惠贸易协定（PTA）战略中发挥作用。它通过概述欧盟对外贸易政策的方法如何随着时间的推移而演变，特别是自冷战结束以来。追踪欧盟统一贸易政策中话语的变化，可以看出政策目标是如何从一个可以被描述为软的甚至是规范性的权力演变成一个更加现实的权力，试图维护其在国际经济秩序中的地位。尽管发生了这些变化，国际背景和观念偏好的结合解释了这一点，但通过贸易政策实现的主要经济利益仍然保持着基本的整体连续性，这表明欧盟是全球经济中理性和现实主义（有时会发生冲突）的参与者。
This article examines how the EU’s ‘conflicted power’ in trade has played out within its preferential trade agreement (PTA) strategies with third parties. It does this by providing an overview of how approaches to the EU’s external trade policies have evolved over time, especially since the end of the Cold War. Tracing changes in discourse in the EU’s consolidated trade policy demonstrates how the policy objectives have evolved from what could be characterised as a soft and even normative power to a much more realist one, attempting to safeguard its position in the international economic order. Notwithstanding these changes, explained by a combination of international context and ideational preferences, an underlying overall continuity has remained in terms of the main economic interests to be realised through trade policy, which presents a portrait of the EU as a rational and realist (if sometimes conflicted) actor in the global economy.