Trade blocs as actors in the international trade order: The political economy of common economic foreign policy and inter-bloc trade agreements

贸易集团作为国际贸易秩序的参与者：共同经济外交政策和集团间贸易协定的政治经济学

• 批准号: 2261755
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2261755
• 关键词: Trade; blocs; actors; international; trade

To summarise the underlying research question, I aim at understanding why plurilateral trade blocs increasingly negotiate PTAs on their own; under what conditions they negotiate inter-regionalPTAs instead of resorting to bilateral agreements; and whether inter-regionalism is becoming an alternative to stalling multilateral negotiations. This research proposal will bring forward the argument that inter-regional PTAs and negotiations of such treaties are qualitatively different from bilateral PTAs and require a focus on their internal political and economic dynamics in order to understand their foreign economic policy. Further, it willargue that the stalling multilateral Doha round has incentivised plurilateral trade blocks to increasingly act on their own as well as that, notwithstanding the depth of integration, the internal composition oftrade blocs is the most significant determinant of the formation of a common foreign economic policy. Moreover, it will bring forward the argument that increased capacity to act uniformly as a trade blocreduces incentives to seek compromise in multilateral trade negotiations, namely the WTO's Doha round.

为了总结基本的研究问题，我的目的是了解为什么诸边贸易集团越来越多地谈判自己的PTA;在什么条件下，他们谈判interregionalPTA，而不是诉诸双边协议;以及是否区域间主义正在成为一种替代拖延多边谈判。本研究提案提出的论点是，地区间的优惠贸易协定及其谈判与双边优惠贸易协定有着本质的不同，为了理解其对外经济政策，需要关注其内部的政治和经济动态。此外，报告指出，多边多哈回合谈判停滞不前，促使诸边贸易集团越来越多地自行采取行动，而且，尽管一体化程度很高，但贸易集团的内部构成是形成共同对外经济政策的最重要决定因素。此外，它将提出这样的论点，即作为一个贸易集团统一行动的能力的提高会减少在多边贸易谈判，即世贸组织多哈回合中寻求妥协的动机。