Competitive Liberalization and the 'Global Europe' Services and Investment Agenda: Locating the Commercial Drivers of the EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements*
Competitive Liberalization and the 'Global Europe' Services and Investment Agenda: Locating the Commercial Drivers of the EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements*
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竞争自由化和“全球欧洲”服务和投资议程：寻找欧盟-非加太经济伙伴关系协议的商业驱动因素*
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10.1111/j.1468-5965.2011.02220.x
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2011
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HERON T
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在过去十年中，欧盟（EU）一直在与非洲、加勒比和太平洋地区（ACP）国家集团进行谈判，以建立经济伙伴关系协定（EPA）。在本文中，经济伙伴关系协定是在欧盟贸易政策向双边主义更广泛转变的背景下进行的。这是参考国际政治经济学（IPE）最近的工作来完成的，该工作强调优惠自由化的“国内社会”和“系统性”驱动因素。尽管这些压力不一定足以解释EPA，但它们确实解释了为什么它们超出了“世界贸易组织（WTO）兼容性”的最初范围，以及为什么这些协议的某些方面与欧盟据称更以商业为导向的双边协议非常相似。
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.