Daniela Sicurelli
Biographic Data
| ID | 175507 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniela Sicurelli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniela |
| FAMILY NAME | Sicurelli |
| SIGNATURE | SICURELLI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Trento |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4574-7485 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 164 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Varieties of engagement in the Indo-Pacific: A comparison of the EU Big Four
This paper compares the Indo-Pacific policies of four EU Member States with significant trade and investment interests and a military presence in the region—namely France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Italy. Using a pluralist theoretical framework, it situates each country along a continuum between ideal-typical realism and liberalism: France as a defensive realist, the Netherlands as a moderately assertive mercantilist, Germany as closer to a s…
Oops! … EU Did It Again! The EU’s Preference for Global Treaties vis-a-vis the Reality of WHO Politics
The European Union (EU) emerged as an agenda-setter in the World Health Organization (WHO) negotiations for a Pandemic Treaty. However, rather than endorsing the EU proposal of a binding treaty, the negotiators agreed upon a two-track process, aimed both at negotiating a Framework Convention and revising existing WHO regulations. Why did the EU achieve only partial results in the ongoing negotiations? Concerns for the defence of national sovereig…
The determinants of the European Union’s selective approach to trade sanctions in Southeast Asia
Covax versus Sinovac: A test for the legitimacy of the World Health Organization in South East Asia
The coronavirus disease-19 crisis has challenged the legitimacy of the World Health Organization as an actor in global health governance and provided the opportunity for China to emerge as a partner of developing countries in facing global pandemics. In this respect, South East Asia represents an emblematic region for testing the legitimacy of the international organisation vis-a-vis the emerging power. This article adopts a sociological interpre…
The Political Economy of the EU Approach to the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar
European institutions have repeatedly represented the EU as an actor that can use the attractiveness of its market to promote human rights internationally. From this perspective, EU trade sanctions represent a hard power tool to push the government of states accused of major human rights violations to abide by international law. In its reaction to the Rohingya crisis in 2018, despite the European Parliament’s call for the lifting of Myanmar’s tra…
The EU as a partner of ILO in trade negotiations. Explaining labour reform in Vietnam
Can EU comprehensive trade agreements effectively promote international labour standards, despite their soft enforcement rules? And if so, under what conditions? This paper addresses these questions by focusing on a hard case study, namely Vietnam’s ratification in 2019 of the ILO Convention 98 on the right to organize and collective bargaining. Such a ratification is an epochal change for a mono-party regime lacking recognition of independent tr…
Promoting sustainable development through trade? EU trade agreements and global value chains
Sustainable development provisions have become an integral part of the European Union's (EU's) ‘new generation’ trade agreements. Yet, a growing number of empirical works show that their design varies significantly, even in the trade agreements signed with countries at similar (low) levels of development. We contend that this variation can be accounted for by discussing how the growing integration of the EU economy with specific developing countr…
Precautionary authoritarianism and the contested governance of Chinese food safety
Chinese food policy has changed over the last two decades from a productivist focus to embracing a precautionary approach to food safety. What are the drivers of this change? And what are the implications for the Chinese political regime? While acknowledging the relevance of global dynamics, we claim that domestic dynamics have largely accounted for this change. A series of food scandals in the 2000s has caused concerns among Chinese consumers an…
Italian cooperation with Mozambique: Explaining the Emergence and Consolidation of a Normative Power
Italy has developed a long-dated partnership with Mozambique, where it has emerged as an actor committed to norm promotion in the fields of conflict management, debt relief, and sustainable energy cooperation. This paper challenges the dominant interpretation of such a cooperative relationship that emphasizes ideational motivations and focuses, instead, on the role of Italian investors in the sectors of infrastructure and energy and of the Italia…
The conditions for effectiveness of EU human rights promotion in non-democratic states. A case study of Vietnam
By tracing the reform process of the penal code in Vietnam, this paper tests the impact of the European human rights policy on a non-democratic state. Despite the lack of government recognition of an independent civil society in Vietnam, the EU has affected domestic debate on death penalty and indirectly steered a reform process that has led to the reduction of the number of capital crimes. This case study identifies the conditions that facilitat…
The EU’s preferential trade agreements with Singapore and Vietnam. Market vs. normative imperatives
By negotiating Free Trade Agreements the EU aspires both to increase the competitiveness of its industry and contribute to sustainable development in the partner country. It pursues a flexible approach to norm promotion which aims at supporting developing countries in their attempt to adjust to international standards. Ideational and institutionalist scholars interpreted this approach as a manifestation of its normative power. We show that in the…
The European Union, Preferential Trade Agreements, and the International Regulation of Sustainable Biofuels
The EU has increasingly turned to PTAs (Preferential Trade Agreements) to spread environmental norms internationally. We argue that the rationale for this strategy is to be found in the tensions between the rigidity of the domestic dynamics of positive integration in the EU and the increased bindingness of WTO negative integration commitments. Consensual decision‐making procedures in the EU both drive the stringency of environmental regulation an…
European Union's Africa Policies: Norms, Interests and Impact
The EU as a Promoter of Human Rights in Bilateral Trade Agreements: The Case of the Negotiations with Vietnam
This paper investigates the impact of the Lisbon Treaty on the harmonization of the actions concerning the foreign relations of the European Union (EU), with a focus on trade and human rights policies. It argues that an alliance of NGOs and economic interest groups promoting a human rights approach to external trade has found in the strengthened European Parliament an institutional channel for their demands. However, the creation of the European …
Mind the gap: IR and the challenge of international politics
The discipline of International Relations (IR) for a long time of its history has developed in the form of Great Debates that involved competing paradigms and schools. More recently, it has been described as a cacophony of voices unable to communicate among themselves, but also incapable to provide keys to understand an ever more complex reality. This collection aims at evaluating the heuristic value of a selection of traditional paradigms (reali…
An institutional approach to foreign policy-making: The EU, the USA and crisis management in Africa
The EU as Promoter of Environmental Norms in the Doha Round
This article investigates the reasons why the EU tried to promote environmental norms in the Doha round. It argues that the EU's support of a ‘greener’ World Trade Organization stems from tensions between the rigidity of the domestic dynamics of positive integration in the EU and the increased bindingness of negative integration commitments undertaken under the WTO. Consensual decision-making procedures in the EU led societal groups to push for s…
Bringing Policy-Making Structure Back In: Why are the US and the EU Pursuing Different Foreign Policies
Framing Security and Development in the EU Pillar Structure. How the Views of the European Commission Affect EU Africa Policy
The increasing integration of development and security policies in European foreign policy raises problems of coordination between the pillars of the EU. Literature on EU external relations stresses the lack of definition of the competences of the Council and the European Commission in the cross‐pillar space, but the way the Commission and the Council relate to each other in EU security and development policies is under‐explored. This article, fo…
Empowering Africa: Normative power in EU–Africa relations
From the introduction]. In this article, we will focus on two cases in which the EU attempts to advance its values internationally. First, the EU promotes the International Criminal Court (ICC) within the framework of its Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), thereby emphasizing its commitment to human rights. Secondly, the EU aims to disseminate the norm of environmental protection by supporting the Kyoto Protocol. We will provide empirical…
Normative Power Europe: A Credible Utopia
Studies on the international identity of the EU have stressed the normative feature of European foreign policy. At the same time, scholars have pointed out that the inconsistency between the EU's rhetoric and behaviour and the lack of reflexivity undermines its credibility. How does reflexivity affect collective identity? To what extent does the EU's utopian rhetoric affect its credibility as a normative power? In order to address these questions…
The federalization of the EU, the US and ‘compound republic’ theory: The convention's debate
This article compares the process of federalization of the EU with the American federal experience. It argues that both the EU and the US share features of compound polities, according to James Madison's conceptualization of these during the Philadelphia convention debate. Regardless of the specific institutional structures derived from the compound republic theory, the article stresses the importance of that theory for an understanding of the Eu…
Italy and the EU's environment and consumer policies: Coalition-Building, Problem Framing and Informal Channels of Influence
Although it is considered among the 'environmental laggard' states of the Union, Italy proved able to perform a crucial role in the promotion of one of the basic principles of EU environmental and consumer policy, namely the precautionary principle. The Italian government was influential in promoting this principle in EU food safety policy, in particular in a 2000 Directive on genetically modified organisms. This picture is certainly not one-side…
Normative Power Europe: A Credible Utopia
Studies on the international identity of the EU have stressed the normative feature of European foreign policy. At the same time, scholars have pointed out that the inconsistency between the EU's rhetoric and behaviour and the lack of reflexivity undermines its credibility. How does reflexivity affect collective identity? To what extent does the EU's utopian rhetoric affect its credibility as a normative power? In order to address these questions…
Empowering Africa: Normative power in EU–Africa relations
From the introduction]. In this article, we will focus on two cases in which the EU attempts to advance its values internationally. First, the EU promotes the International Criminal Court (ICC) within the framework of its Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), thereby emphasizing its commitment to human rights. Secondly, the EU aims to disseminate the norm of environmental protection by supporting the Kyoto Protocol. We will provide empirical…
Promoting sustainable development through trade? EU trade agreements and global value chains
Sustainable development provisions have become an integral part of the European Union's (EU's) ‘new generation’ trade agreements. Yet, a growing number of empirical works show that their design varies significantly, even in the trade agreements signed with countries at similar (low) levels of development. We contend that this variation can be accounted for by discussing how the growing integration of the EU economy with specific developing countr…
The European Union, Preferential Trade Agreements, and the International Regulation of Sustainable Biofuels
The EU has increasingly turned to PTAs (Preferential Trade Agreements) to spread environmental norms internationally. We argue that the rationale for this strategy is to be found in the tensions between the rigidity of the domestic dynamics of positive integration in the EU and the increased bindingness of WTO negative integration commitments. Consensual decision‐making procedures in the EU both drive the stringency of environmental regulation an…
The EU as a Promoter of Human Rights in Bilateral Trade Agreements: The Case of the Negotiations with Vietnam
This paper investigates the impact of the Lisbon Treaty on the harmonization of the actions concerning the foreign relations of the European Union (EU), with a focus on trade and human rights policies. It argues that an alliance of NGOs and economic interest groups promoting a human rights approach to external trade has found in the strengthened European Parliament an institutional channel for their demands. However, the creation of the European …
The EU as Promoter of Environmental Norms in the Doha Round
This article investigates the reasons why the EU tried to promote environmental norms in the Doha round. It argues that the EU's support of a ‘greener’ World Trade Organization stems from tensions between the rigidity of the domestic dynamics of positive integration in the EU and the increased bindingness of negative integration commitments undertaken under the WTO. Consensual decision-making procedures in the EU led societal groups to push for s…
Framing Security and Development in the EU Pillar Structure. How the Views of the European Commission Affect EU Africa Policy
The increasing integration of development and security policies in European foreign policy raises problems of coordination between the pillars of the EU. Literature on EU external relations stresses the lack of definition of the competences of the Council and the European Commission in the cross‐pillar space, but the way the Commission and the Council relate to each other in EU security and development policies is under‐explored. This article, fo…
The EU’s preferential trade agreements with Singapore and Vietnam. Market vs. normative imperatives
By negotiating Free Trade Agreements the EU aspires both to increase the competitiveness of its industry and contribute to sustainable development in the partner country. It pursues a flexible approach to norm promotion which aims at supporting developing countries in their attempt to adjust to international standards. Ideational and institutionalist scholars interpreted this approach as a manifestation of its normative power. We show that in the…
The Political Economy of the EU Approach to the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar
European institutions have repeatedly represented the EU as an actor that can use the attractiveness of its market to promote human rights internationally. From this perspective, EU trade sanctions represent a hard power tool to push the government of states accused of major human rights violations to abide by international law. In its reaction to the Rohingya crisis in 2018, despite the European Parliament’s call for the lifting of Myanmar’s tra…
The conditions for effectiveness of EU human rights promotion in non-democratic states. A case study of Vietnam
By tracing the reform process of the penal code in Vietnam, this paper tests the impact of the European human rights policy on a non-democratic state. Despite the lack of government recognition of an independent civil society in Vietnam, the EU has affected domestic debate on death penalty and indirectly steered a reform process that has led to the reduction of the number of capital crimes. This case study identifies the conditions that facilitat…
The federalization of the EU, the US and ‘compound republic’ theory: The convention's debate
This article compares the process of federalization of the EU with the American federal experience. It argues that both the EU and the US share features of compound polities, according to James Madison's conceptualization of these during the Philadelphia convention debate. Regardless of the specific institutional structures derived from the compound republic theory, the article stresses the importance of that theory for an understanding of the Eu…
Bringing Policy-Making Structure Back In: Why are the US and the EU Pursuing Different Foreign Policies
The EU as a partner of ILO in trade negotiations. Explaining labour reform in Vietnam
Can EU comprehensive trade agreements effectively promote international labour standards, despite their soft enforcement rules? And if so, under what conditions? This paper addresses these questions by focusing on a hard case study, namely Vietnam’s ratification in 2019 of the ILO Convention 98 on the right to organize and collective bargaining. Such a ratification is an epochal change for a mono-party regime lacking recognition of independent tr…
An institutional approach to foreign policy-making: The EU, the USA and crisis management in Africa
Italy and the EU's environment and consumer policies: Coalition-Building, Problem Framing and Informal Channels of Influence
Although it is considered among the 'environmental laggard' states of the Union, Italy proved able to perform a crucial role in the promotion of one of the basic principles of EU environmental and consumer policy, namely the precautionary principle. The Italian government was influential in promoting this principle in EU food safety policy, in particular in a 2000 Directive on genetically modified organisms. This picture is certainly not one-side…
The federalization of the EU, the US and ‘compound republic’ theory: The convention's debate
This article compares the process of federalization of the EU with the American federal experience. It argues that both the EU and the US share features of compound polities, according to James Madison's conceptualization of these during the Philadelphia convention debate. Regardless of the specific institutional structures derived from the compound republic theory, the article stresses the importance of that theory for an understanding of the Eu…
Italy and the EU's environment and consumer policies: Coalition-Building, Problem Framing and Informal Channels of Influence
Although it is considered among the 'environmental laggard' states of the Union, Italy proved able to perform a crucial role in the promotion of one of the basic principles of EU environmental and consumer policy, namely the precautionary principle. The Italian government was influential in promoting this principle in EU food safety policy, in particular in a 2000 Directive on genetically modified organisms. This picture is certainly not one-side…
Normative Power Europe: A Credible Utopia
Studies on the international identity of the EU have stressed the normative feature of European foreign policy. At the same time, scholars have pointed out that the inconsistency between the EU's rhetoric and behaviour and the lack of reflexivity undermines its credibility. How does reflexivity affect collective identity? To what extent does the EU's utopian rhetoric affect its credibility as a normative power? In order to address these questions…
Bringing Policy-Making Structure Back In: Why are the US and the EU Pursuing Different Foreign Policies
Framing Security and Development in the EU Pillar Structure. How the Views of the European Commission Affect EU Africa Policy
The increasing integration of development and security policies in European foreign policy raises problems of coordination between the pillars of the EU. Literature on EU external relations stresses the lack of definition of the competences of the Council and the European Commission in the cross‐pillar space, but the way the Commission and the Council relate to each other in EU security and development policies is under‐explored. This article, fo…
Empowering Africa: Normative power in EU–Africa relations
From the introduction]. In this article, we will focus on two cases in which the EU attempts to advance its values internationally. First, the EU promotes the International Criminal Court (ICC) within the framework of its Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), thereby emphasizing its commitment to human rights. Secondly, the EU aims to disseminate the norm of environmental protection by supporting the Kyoto Protocol. We will provide empirical…
The EU as Promoter of Environmental Norms in the Doha Round
This article investigates the reasons why the EU tried to promote environmental norms in the Doha round. It argues that the EU's support of a ‘greener’ World Trade Organization stems from tensions between the rigidity of the domestic dynamics of positive integration in the EU and the increased bindingness of negative integration commitments undertaken under the WTO. Consensual decision-making procedures in the EU led societal groups to push for s…
An institutional approach to foreign policy-making: The EU, the USA and crisis management in Africa
The EU as a Promoter of Human Rights in Bilateral Trade Agreements: The Case of the Negotiations with Vietnam
This paper investigates the impact of the Lisbon Treaty on the harmonization of the actions concerning the foreign relations of the European Union (EU), with a focus on trade and human rights policies. It argues that an alliance of NGOs and economic interest groups promoting a human rights approach to external trade has found in the strengthened European Parliament an institutional channel for their demands. However, the creation of the European …
Mind the gap: IR and the challenge of international politics
The discipline of International Relations (IR) for a long time of its history has developed in the form of Great Debates that involved competing paradigms and schools. More recently, it has been described as a cacophony of voices unable to communicate among themselves, but also incapable to provide keys to understand an ever more complex reality. This collection aims at evaluating the heuristic value of a selection of traditional paradigms (reali…
The European Union, Preferential Trade Agreements, and the International Regulation of Sustainable Biofuels
The EU has increasingly turned to PTAs (Preferential Trade Agreements) to spread environmental norms internationally. We argue that the rationale for this strategy is to be found in the tensions between the rigidity of the domestic dynamics of positive integration in the EU and the increased bindingness of WTO negative integration commitments. Consensual decision‐making procedures in the EU both drive the stringency of environmental regulation an…
European Union's Africa Policies: Norms, Interests and Impact
The conditions for effectiveness of EU human rights promotion in non-democratic states. A case study of Vietnam
By tracing the reform process of the penal code in Vietnam, this paper tests the impact of the European human rights policy on a non-democratic state. Despite the lack of government recognition of an independent civil society in Vietnam, the EU has affected domestic debate on death penalty and indirectly steered a reform process that has led to the reduction of the number of capital crimes. This case study identifies the conditions that facilitat…
The EU’s preferential trade agreements with Singapore and Vietnam. Market vs. normative imperatives
By negotiating Free Trade Agreements the EU aspires both to increase the competitiveness of its industry and contribute to sustainable development in the partner country. It pursues a flexible approach to norm promotion which aims at supporting developing countries in their attempt to adjust to international standards. Ideational and institutionalist scholars interpreted this approach as a manifestation of its normative power. We show that in the…
Italian cooperation with Mozambique: Explaining the Emergence and Consolidation of a Normative Power
Italy has developed a long-dated partnership with Mozambique, where it has emerged as an actor committed to norm promotion in the fields of conflict management, debt relief, and sustainable energy cooperation. This paper challenges the dominant interpretation of such a cooperative relationship that emphasizes ideational motivations and focuses, instead, on the role of Italian investors in the sectors of infrastructure and energy and of the Italia…
The EU as a partner of ILO in trade negotiations. Explaining labour reform in Vietnam
Can EU comprehensive trade agreements effectively promote international labour standards, despite their soft enforcement rules? And if so, under what conditions? This paper addresses these questions by focusing on a hard case study, namely Vietnam’s ratification in 2019 of the ILO Convention 98 on the right to organize and collective bargaining. Such a ratification is an epochal change for a mono-party regime lacking recognition of independent tr…
Promoting sustainable development through trade? EU trade agreements and global value chains
Sustainable development provisions have become an integral part of the European Union's (EU's) ‘new generation’ trade agreements. Yet, a growing number of empirical works show that their design varies significantly, even in the trade agreements signed with countries at similar (low) levels of development. We contend that this variation can be accounted for by discussing how the growing integration of the EU economy with specific developing countr…
Precautionary authoritarianism and the contested governance of Chinese food safety
Chinese food policy has changed over the last two decades from a productivist focus to embracing a precautionary approach to food safety. What are the drivers of this change? And what are the implications for the Chinese political regime? While acknowledging the relevance of global dynamics, we claim that domestic dynamics have largely accounted for this change. A series of food scandals in the 2000s has caused concerns among Chinese consumers an…
The Political Economy of the EU Approach to the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar
European institutions have repeatedly represented the EU as an actor that can use the attractiveness of its market to promote human rights internationally. From this perspective, EU trade sanctions represent a hard power tool to push the government of states accused of major human rights violations to abide by international law. In its reaction to the Rohingya crisis in 2018, despite the European Parliament’s call for the lifting of Myanmar’s tra…
The determinants of the European Union’s selective approach to trade sanctions in Southeast Asia
Covax versus Sinovac: A test for the legitimacy of the World Health Organization in South East Asia
The coronavirus disease-19 crisis has challenged the legitimacy of the World Health Organization as an actor in global health governance and provided the opportunity for China to emerge as a partner of developing countries in facing global pandemics. In this respect, South East Asia represents an emblematic region for testing the legitimacy of the international organisation vis-a-vis the emerging power. This article adopts a sociological interpre…
Oops! … EU Did It Again! The EU’s Preference for Global Treaties vis-a-vis the Reality of WHO Politics
The European Union (EU) emerged as an agenda-setter in the World Health Organization (WHO) negotiations for a Pandemic Treaty. However, rather than endorsing the EU proposal of a binding treaty, the negotiators agreed upon a two-track process, aimed both at negotiating a Framework Convention and revising existing WHO regulations. Why did the EU achieve only partial results in the ongoing negotiations? Concerns for the defence of national sovereig…
Varieties of engagement in the Indo-Pacific: A comparison of the EU Big Four
This paper compares the Indo-Pacific policies of four EU Member States with significant trade and investment interests and a military presence in the region—namely France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Italy. Using a pluralist theoretical framework, it situates each country along a continuum between ideal-typical realism and liberalism: France as a defensive realist, the Netherlands as a moderately assertive mercantilist, Germany as closer to a s…
Political science (21 works) · Economics (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Politics (17 works) · European union (16 works) · Law (15 works) · International trade (14 works) · Political economy (10 works) · Business (8 works) · International Development and Aid (8 works)