Power in North-South Trade Negotiations: Making the European Union's Economic
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Power in North-South Trade Negotiations: Making the European Union's Economic Partnership Agreements (RIPE Series in Global Political Economy) like new condition Advancing a constructivist conceptual approach, this book explains the surprising outcome of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union and developing countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (the ACP countries). Despite the EU’s huge market power, it had limited success with the EPAs; an outcome that confounds materialist narratives equating trade power with market size. Why was the EU unable to fully realize its prospectus for trade and regulatory liberalization through the EPA negotiations? Emphasizing the role of social legitimacy in asymmetrical North–South trade negotiations, Murray-Evans sets the EPAs within the broader context of an institutionally complex global trade regime and stresses the agency of both weak and strong actors in contesting trade rules and practices across mu