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Gabriel Siles-Brügge

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ID3518735
NAMEGabriel Siles-Brügge
GIVEN NAMESGabriel
FAMILY NAMESiles-Brügge
SIGNATURESILES-BRÜGGE G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Warwick
ORCID0009-0004-6340-3218
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS22
TOTAL CITATIONS214
AUTHOR COUNT22
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX7
  • Performing trade: Global Britain’ and the UK’s post-Brexit free trade agreements with Australia and New Zealand

    Open Access•Tony Heron, Gabriel Siles-Brügge et al.•ARTICLE•Review of International Political…•2025•Cited by: 4•References: 10

  • Spatial Imaginaries and the Geopolitics of Trade: A Constructivist Perspective

    Open Access•Ece Özlem Atikcan, Achim Hurrelmann et al.•ARTICLE•Geopolitics•2025•References: 84

    This Special Issue explores the spatial politics of trade through a constructivist lens. While recent debates in international trade policy have emphasised geostrategic concerns, we argue that space in trade governance is not merely a geopolitical backdrop, but a politically contested arena. The establishment, management, and contestation of trade relations are shaped by, and contribute to, social constructions of space, including the power struc…

  • Reflections on the Present and Future of European Studies: Expanding our Understanding of EUrope

    Open Access•Paul James Cardwell, Roberta Guerrina et al.•ARTICLE•JCMS Journal of Common Market…•2022•References: 5

  • The dynamics of municipal contestation: Responses From Local Government to Perceived Policy Threats From Higher Authorities

    Open Access•Imrat Verhoeven, Michael Strange et al.•ARTICLE•Policy & Politics•2022•Cited by: 4•References: 8

    This article focuses on the conflictual relations at the heart of what we call ‘municipal contestation’. This global phenomenon sees cities and other local governments – sometimes together with non-governmental players – contest policies proposed or implemented by higher governmental authorities, which they perceive as threats to their policy positions or local communities. Bridging public policy studies and social movement theory, we develop a n…

  • Brexit and trade policy: An analysis of the governance of UK trade policy and what it means for health and social justice

    Open Access•May Ci Van Schalkwyk, Philip Barlow et al.•ARTICLE•Globalization and Health•2021

    BACKGROUND: There is an extensive body of research demonstrating that trade and globalisation can have wide-ranging implications for health. Robust governance is key to ensuring that health, social justice and sustainability are key considerations within trade policy, and that health risks from trade are effectively mitigated and benefits are maximised. The UK's departure from the EU provides a rare opportunity to examine a context where trade go…

  • Rethinking the Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Trade Politics

    Open Access•Jean-Baptiste Velut, Gabriel Siles-Brügge et al.•ARTICLE•New Political Economy•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 7

    The economic populism said to be represented by the votes for Brexit and Donald Trump and the breakdown in trade and investment following the COVID-19 outbreak have rekindled interest in the redistributive consequences of trade liberalisation. Against this backdrop, the authors in this Special Section consider the broader drivers of inclusion and exclusion in trade governance, focusing on the trade politics of Canada, the European Union and the U…

  • UK‐US Trade Relations and ‘Global Britain’

    Open Access•Tony Heron, Gabriel Siles-Brügge et al.•ARTICLE•The Political Quarterly•2021•Cited by: 7

    A UK‐US free trade agreement has consistently been presented as the main prize from the UK's much touted post‐Brexit trade policy independence. The UK Prime Minister's admission that this was not going to be realised any time soon may have surprised media pundits, but it merely confirmed what had become increasingly apparent since the referendum: that a free trade agreement with the US was a long shot. Taken together with the short‐lived suggesti…

  • National Autonomy or Transnational Solidarity? Using Multiple Geographic Frames to Politicize EU Trade Policy

    Open Access•Gabriel Siles-Brügge, Michael Strange•ARTICLE•Politics and Governance•2020•Cited by: 6•References: 12

    The article contributes to our understanding of how trade is politicized and how civil society activists manage the tensions between multiple collective action frames in a complex political context. When viewed alongside the Brexit referendum and Trump’s US Presidency, it is easy to see the 2013–2016 campaign against a European Union–US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership as a further example of an apparently growing populist ‘national…

  • The Impact of Brexit on EU Trade Policy

    Open Access•Ferdi De Ville, Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•Politics and Governance•2019•Cited by: 3•References: 17

    There has been increased interest in trade policy following the UK’s EU membership referendum. However, relatively little scholarly analysis has been produced on how Brexit will affect EU trade policy. Instead, the received wisdom has been that Brexit will shift the EU’s trade policy position in a less liberal direction. This is based on a ‘static’ analysis where the UK variable is simply removed from the figurative ‘function’ determining EU trad…

  • The Impact of Brexit on EU Policies

    Open Access•Ferdi De Ville, Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•Politics and Governance•2019•Cited by: 6•References: 11

    While the result of the UK’s referendum on membership of the EU has been the subject of considerable scholarly interest, relatively little has been written on the impact of Brexit on the EU. Where academics have addressed the issue, they have tended to either see Brexit through the lens of European ‘(dis)integration’ theory or focused on its ‘static’ effects, assessing the impact of removing the UK from the EU’s policymaking machinery based on it…

  • Bound by Gravity or Living in a ‘Post Geography Trading World’? Expert Knowledge and Affective Spatial Imaginaries in the Construction of the UK’s Post-Brexit Trade Policy

    Open Access•Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•New Political Economy•2018•Cited by: 19•References: 12

    A key battle has been fought within the UK cabinet on the direction of post-Brexit trade policy. The opposing sides have favoured either continued alignment or a ‘hard’ break with the European Union’s (EU’s) regulatory and customs regime, in the latter case to allow the UK to pursue an independent and ambitious trade policy agenda. Contrary to much commentary on ‘post-truth’ politics, both sides have relied on rival forms of expertise to support …

  • Transatlantic investor protection as a threat to democracy: The potency and limits of an emotive frame

    Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•Cambridge Review of International…•2017•Cited by: 24•References: 22

    A campaign by civil society organizations (CSOs) turned a relatively obscure area of international economic law—investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS)—into the focus of opposition to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and later the European Union (EU)–Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). This article analyses how CSOs impacted on the EU’s position, while highlighting the limitations of their influence…

  • The Present and the Future of the Research Excellence Framework Impact Agenda in the UK Academy: A Reflection from Politics and International Studies

    Open Access•Aoileann Ní Mhurchú, Laura Mcleod et al.•ARTICLE•Political Studies Review•2017•Cited by: 8•References: 12

    One of the most extensively discussed requirements introduced in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework was impact. In this review piece, we focus on the linear and temporal consequences of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) impact system. We link such consequences to our own research agendas to provide a sense of empirical richness to the broad concerns that arise from the impact agenda and to highlight the effects of the Research Excellenc…

  • Why TTIP is a game-changer and its critics have a point

    Ferdi De Ville, Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•Journal of European Public Policy•2017•Cited by: 39•References: 20

    The heated scholarly and public debate on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has centred predominantly on two questions. Firstly, is there something particularly special about TTIP, other than the fact that it involves the world’s largest trading partners? And, secondly, is the concern about TTIP’s deleterious effects justified? The starting point for our argument is that understanding an agreement like TTIP requires an emp…

  • Constructing European Union Trade Policy

    Open Access•Gabriel Siles-Brügge•BOOK•Constructing European Union Trade…•2014

    With the stagnation of the Doha Round of multilateral talks, trade liberalisation is increasingly undertaken through free trade agreements. Gabriel Siles-Brügge examines the EU's decision following the 2006 'Global Europe' strategy to negotiate such agreements with emerging economies. Eschewing the purely materialist explanations prominent in the field, he develops a novel constructivist argument to highlight the role of language and ideas in sha…

  • Constructing European Union Trade Policy: A Global Idea of Europe

    Gabriel Siles-Brügge•BOOK•Constructing European Union Trade…•2014

  • The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the Role of Computable General Equilibrium Modelling: An Exercise in ‘Managing Fictional Expectations’

    Ferdi De Ville, Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•New Political Economy•2014•Cited by: 6•References: 21

    Negotiations between the world's two largest trading partners, the European Union (EU) and the USA, on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) have been ongoing since July 2013. Anticipating the controversy the agreement has sparked, EU trade policy-makers in the European Commission have put considerable effort into discursively framing the agreement on their terms. Drawing on computable general equilibrium (CGE) models of the agr…

  • EU trade and development policy beyond the ACP: Subordinating developmental to commercial imperatives in the reform of GSP

    Open Access•Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•Contemporary Politics•2014•Cited by: 25•References: 17

    Following the stagnation of negotiations with the African, Caribbean and Pacific states, the centrepiece of the European Union's (EU's) trade and development strategy has been a reform of the Generalised System of Preferences. Although policy-makers in the Commission's Directorate General for Trade have argued they are ‘refocusing’ these preferences on the ‘neediest’, by rendering a significant proportion of emerging economies' exports ineligible…

  • The Power of Economic Ideas: A Constructivist Political Economy of EU Trade Policy

    Open Access•Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•Journal of Contemporary European…•2013•Cited by: 3•References: 14

    The European Union’s (EU’s) 2006 Global Europe communication established an offensive Free Trade Agreement (FTA) agenda premised on serving the interests of the EU’s upmarket exporters at the expense of the EU’s remaining “pockets of protection”. This has remained in place with the advent of the 2010 Trade, Growth and World Affairs strategy. Such a development defies both rationalist International Political Economy (IPE) explanations – which emph…

  • Explaining the resilience of free trade: The Smoot–Hawley myth and the crisis

    Open Access•Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•Review of International Political…•2013•Cited by: 7•References: 38

    Despite the onset of the current economic crisis there has been no significant move towards protectionism amongst most of the world's economies. Although rational institutionalist explanations point to the role played by the constraining rules of the World Trade Organisation, countries have largely remained open in areas where they have not legally bound their liberalisation. While accounts emphasising the increasing interdependence of global sup…

  • Competitive Liberalization and the ‘Global Europe’ Services and Investment Agenda: Locating the Commercial Drivers of the EU–ACP Economic Partnership Agreements

    Open Access•Tony Heron, Gabriel Siles-Brügge et al.•ARTICLE•JCMS Journal of Common Market…•2012•Cited by: 27•References: 26

    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 preferent…

  • Resisting Protectionism after the Crisis: Strategic Economic Discourse and the EU–Korea Free Trade Agreement

    Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•New Political Economy•2011•Cited by: 22•References: 23

    In 2006 the European Commission announced its Global Europe strategy, which proposed pursuing a series of ambitious Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) premised on exchanging the EU's remaining ‘pockets of protection’ for market access. The first of these agreements was signed with South Korea in October 2010. This article asks how the Commission's Directorate-General (DG) for Trade could successfully conclude this agreement in the aftermath of the Fina…

  • Why TTIP is a game-changer and its critics have a point

    Ferdi De Ville, Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•Journal of European Public Policy•2017•Cited by: 39•References: 20

    The heated scholarly and public debate on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has centred predominantly on two questions. Firstly, is there something particularly special about TTIP, other than the fact that it involves the world’s largest trading partners? And, secondly, is the concern about TTIP’s deleterious effects justified? The starting point for our argument is that understanding an agreement like TTIP requires an emp…

  • Competitive Liberalization and the ‘Global Europe’ Services and Investment Agenda: Locating the Commercial Drivers of the EU–ACP Economic Partnership Agreements

    Open Access•Tony Heron, Gabriel Siles-Brügge et al.•ARTICLE•JCMS Journal of Common Market…•2012•Cited by: 27•References: 26

    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 preferent…

  • EU trade and development policy beyond the ACP: Subordinating developmental to commercial imperatives in the reform of GSP

    Open Access•Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•Contemporary Politics•2014•Cited by: 25•References: 17

    Following the stagnation of negotiations with the African, Caribbean and Pacific states, the centrepiece of the European Union's (EU's) trade and development strategy has been a reform of the Generalised System of Preferences. Although policy-makers in the Commission's Directorate General for Trade have argued they are ‘refocusing’ these preferences on the ‘neediest’, by rendering a significant proportion of emerging economies' exports ineligible…

  • Transatlantic investor protection as a threat to democracy: The potency and limits of an emotive frame

    Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•Cambridge Review of International…•2017•Cited by: 24•References: 22

    A campaign by civil society organizations (CSOs) turned a relatively obscure area of international economic law—investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS)—into the focus of opposition to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and later the European Union (EU)–Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). This article analyses how CSOs impacted on the EU’s position, while highlighting the limitations of their influence…

  • Resisting Protectionism after the Crisis: Strategic Economic Discourse and the EU–Korea Free Trade Agreement

    Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•New Political Economy•2011•Cited by: 22•References: 23

    In 2006 the European Commission announced its Global Europe strategy, which proposed pursuing a series of ambitious Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) premised on exchanging the EU's remaining ‘pockets of protection’ for market access. The first of these agreements was signed with South Korea in October 2010. This article asks how the Commission's Directorate-General (DG) for Trade could successfully conclude this agreement in the aftermath of the Fina…

  • Bound by Gravity or Living in a ‘Post Geography Trading World’? Expert Knowledge and Affective Spatial Imaginaries in the Construction of the UK’s Post-Brexit Trade Policy

    Open Access•Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•New Political Economy•2018•Cited by: 19•References: 12

    A key battle has been fought within the UK cabinet on the direction of post-Brexit trade policy. The opposing sides have favoured either continued alignment or a ‘hard’ break with the European Union’s (EU’s) regulatory and customs regime, in the latter case to allow the UK to pursue an independent and ambitious trade policy agenda. Contrary to much commentary on ‘post-truth’ politics, both sides have relied on rival forms of expertise to support …

  • The Present and the Future of the Research Excellence Framework Impact Agenda in the UK Academy: A Reflection from Politics and International Studies

    Open Access•Aoileann Ní Mhurchú, Laura Mcleod et al.•ARTICLE•Political Studies Review•2017•Cited by: 8•References: 12

    One of the most extensively discussed requirements introduced in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework was impact. In this review piece, we focus on the linear and temporal consequences of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) impact system. We link such consequences to our own research agendas to provide a sense of empirical richness to the broad concerns that arise from the impact agenda and to highlight the effects of the Research Excellenc…

  • UK‐US Trade Relations and ‘Global Britain’

    Open Access•Tony Heron, Gabriel Siles-Brügge et al.•ARTICLE•The Political Quarterly•2021•Cited by: 7

    A UK‐US free trade agreement has consistently been presented as the main prize from the UK's much touted post‐Brexit trade policy independence. The UK Prime Minister's admission that this was not going to be realised any time soon may have surprised media pundits, but it merely confirmed what had become increasingly apparent since the referendum: that a free trade agreement with the US was a long shot. Taken together with the short‐lived suggesti…

  • Explaining the resilience of free trade: The Smoot–Hawley myth and the crisis

    Open Access•Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•Review of International Political…•2013•Cited by: 7•References: 38

    Despite the onset of the current economic crisis there has been no significant move towards protectionism amongst most of the world's economies. Although rational institutionalist explanations point to the role played by the constraining rules of the World Trade Organisation, countries have largely remained open in areas where they have not legally bound their liberalisation. While accounts emphasising the increasing interdependence of global sup…

  • National Autonomy or Transnational Solidarity? Using Multiple Geographic Frames to Politicize EU Trade Policy

    Open Access•Gabriel Siles-Brügge, Michael Strange•ARTICLE•Politics and Governance•2020•Cited by: 6•References: 12

    The article contributes to our understanding of how trade is politicized and how civil society activists manage the tensions between multiple collective action frames in a complex political context. When viewed alongside the Brexit referendum and Trump’s US Presidency, it is easy to see the 2013–2016 campaign against a European Union–US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership as a further example of an apparently growing populist ‘national…

  • The Impact of Brexit on EU Policies

    Open Access•Ferdi De Ville, Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•Politics and Governance•2019•Cited by: 6•References: 11

    While the result of the UK’s referendum on membership of the EU has been the subject of considerable scholarly interest, relatively little has been written on the impact of Brexit on the EU. Where academics have addressed the issue, they have tended to either see Brexit through the lens of European ‘(dis)integration’ theory or focused on its ‘static’ effects, assessing the impact of removing the UK from the EU’s policymaking machinery based on it…

  • The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the Role of Computable General Equilibrium Modelling: An Exercise in ‘Managing Fictional Expectations’

    Ferdi De Ville, Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•New Political Economy•2014•Cited by: 6•References: 21

    Negotiations between the world's two largest trading partners, the European Union (EU) and the USA, on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) have been ongoing since July 2013. Anticipating the controversy the agreement has sparked, EU trade policy-makers in the European Commission have put considerable effort into discursively framing the agreement on their terms. Drawing on computable general equilibrium (CGE) models of the agr…

  • Performing trade: Global Britain’ and the UK’s post-Brexit free trade agreements with Australia and New Zealand

    Open Access•Tony Heron, Gabriel Siles-Brügge et al.•ARTICLE•Review of International Political…•2025•Cited by: 4•References: 10

  • The dynamics of municipal contestation: Responses From Local Government to Perceived Policy Threats From Higher Authorities

    Open Access•Imrat Verhoeven, Michael Strange et al.•ARTICLE•Policy & Politics•2022•Cited by: 4•References: 8

    This article focuses on the conflictual relations at the heart of what we call ‘municipal contestation’. This global phenomenon sees cities and other local governments – sometimes together with non-governmental players – contest policies proposed or implemented by higher governmental authorities, which they perceive as threats to their policy positions or local communities. Bridging public policy studies and social movement theory, we develop a n…

  • Rethinking the Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Trade Politics

    Open Access•Jean-Baptiste Velut, Gabriel Siles-Brügge et al.•ARTICLE•New Political Economy•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 7

    The economic populism said to be represented by the votes for Brexit and Donald Trump and the breakdown in trade and investment following the COVID-19 outbreak have rekindled interest in the redistributive consequences of trade liberalisation. Against this backdrop, the authors in this Special Section consider the broader drivers of inclusion and exclusion in trade governance, focusing on the trade politics of Canada, the European Union and the U…

  • The Impact of Brexit on EU Trade Policy

    Open Access•Ferdi De Ville, Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•Politics and Governance•2019•Cited by: 3•References: 17

    There has been increased interest in trade policy following the UK’s EU membership referendum. However, relatively little scholarly analysis has been produced on how Brexit will affect EU trade policy. Instead, the received wisdom has been that Brexit will shift the EU’s trade policy position in a less liberal direction. This is based on a ‘static’ analysis where the UK variable is simply removed from the figurative ‘function’ determining EU trad…

  • The Power of Economic Ideas: A Constructivist Political Economy of EU Trade Policy

    Open Access•Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•Journal of Contemporary European…•2013•Cited by: 3•References: 14

    The European Union’s (EU’s) 2006 Global Europe communication established an offensive Free Trade Agreement (FTA) agenda premised on serving the interests of the EU’s upmarket exporters at the expense of the EU’s remaining “pockets of protection”. This has remained in place with the advent of the 2010 Trade, Growth and World Affairs strategy. Such a development defies both rationalist International Political Economy (IPE) explanations – which emph…

  • Resisting Protectionism after the Crisis: Strategic Economic Discourse and the EU–Korea Free Trade Agreement

    Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•New Political Economy•2011•Cited by: 22•References: 23

    In 2006 the European Commission announced its Global Europe strategy, which proposed pursuing a series of ambitious Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) premised on exchanging the EU's remaining ‘pockets of protection’ for market access. The first of these agreements was signed with South Korea in October 2010. This article asks how the Commission's Directorate-General (DG) for Trade could successfully conclude this agreement in the aftermath of the Fina…

  • Competitive Liberalization and the ‘Global Europe’ Services and Investment Agenda: Locating the Commercial Drivers of the EU–ACP Economic Partnership Agreements

    Open Access•Tony Heron, Gabriel Siles-Brügge et al.•ARTICLE•JCMS Journal of Common Market…•2012•Cited by: 27•References: 26

    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 preferent…

  • The Power of Economic Ideas: A Constructivist Political Economy of EU Trade Policy

    Open Access•Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•Journal of Contemporary European…•2013•Cited by: 3•References: 14

    The European Union’s (EU’s) 2006 Global Europe communication established an offensive Free Trade Agreement (FTA) agenda premised on serving the interests of the EU’s upmarket exporters at the expense of the EU’s remaining “pockets of protection”. This has remained in place with the advent of the 2010 Trade, Growth and World Affairs strategy. Such a development defies both rationalist International Political Economy (IPE) explanations – which emph…

  • Explaining the resilience of free trade: The Smoot–Hawley myth and the crisis

    Open Access•Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•Review of International Political…•2013•Cited by: 7•References: 38

    Despite the onset of the current economic crisis there has been no significant move towards protectionism amongst most of the world's economies. Although rational institutionalist explanations point to the role played by the constraining rules of the World Trade Organisation, countries have largely remained open in areas where they have not legally bound their liberalisation. While accounts emphasising the increasing interdependence of global sup…

  • Constructing European Union Trade Policy

    Open Access•Gabriel Siles-Brügge•BOOK•Constructing European Union Trade…•2014

    With the stagnation of the Doha Round of multilateral talks, trade liberalisation is increasingly undertaken through free trade agreements. Gabriel Siles-Brügge examines the EU's decision following the 2006 'Global Europe' strategy to negotiate such agreements with emerging economies. Eschewing the purely materialist explanations prominent in the field, he develops a novel constructivist argument to highlight the role of language and ideas in sha…

  • Constructing European Union Trade Policy: A Global Idea of Europe

    Gabriel Siles-Brügge•BOOK•Constructing European Union Trade…•2014

  • The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the Role of Computable General Equilibrium Modelling: An Exercise in ‘Managing Fictional Expectations’

    Ferdi De Ville, Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•New Political Economy•2014•Cited by: 6•References: 21

    Negotiations between the world's two largest trading partners, the European Union (EU) and the USA, on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) have been ongoing since July 2013. Anticipating the controversy the agreement has sparked, EU trade policy-makers in the European Commission have put considerable effort into discursively framing the agreement on their terms. Drawing on computable general equilibrium (CGE) models of the agr…

  • EU trade and development policy beyond the ACP: Subordinating developmental to commercial imperatives in the reform of GSP

    Open Access•Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•Contemporary Politics•2014•Cited by: 25•References: 17

    Following the stagnation of negotiations with the African, Caribbean and Pacific states, the centrepiece of the European Union's (EU's) trade and development strategy has been a reform of the Generalised System of Preferences. Although policy-makers in the Commission's Directorate General for Trade have argued they are ‘refocusing’ these preferences on the ‘neediest’, by rendering a significant proportion of emerging economies' exports ineligible…

  • Transatlantic investor protection as a threat to democracy: The potency and limits of an emotive frame

    Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•Cambridge Review of International…•2017•Cited by: 24•References: 22

    A campaign by civil society organizations (CSOs) turned a relatively obscure area of international economic law—investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS)—into the focus of opposition to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and later the European Union (EU)–Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). This article analyses how CSOs impacted on the EU’s position, while highlighting the limitations of their influence…

  • The Present and the Future of the Research Excellence Framework Impact Agenda in the UK Academy: A Reflection from Politics and International Studies

    Open Access•Aoileann Ní Mhurchú, Laura Mcleod et al.•ARTICLE•Political Studies Review•2017•Cited by: 8•References: 12

    One of the most extensively discussed requirements introduced in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework was impact. In this review piece, we focus on the linear and temporal consequences of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) impact system. We link such consequences to our own research agendas to provide a sense of empirical richness to the broad concerns that arise from the impact agenda and to highlight the effects of the Research Excellenc…

  • Why TTIP is a game-changer and its critics have a point

    Ferdi De Ville, Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•Journal of European Public Policy•2017•Cited by: 39•References: 20

    The heated scholarly and public debate on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has centred predominantly on two questions. Firstly, is there something particularly special about TTIP, other than the fact that it involves the world’s largest trading partners? And, secondly, is the concern about TTIP’s deleterious effects justified? The starting point for our argument is that understanding an agreement like TTIP requires an emp…

  • Bound by Gravity or Living in a ‘Post Geography Trading World’? Expert Knowledge and Affective Spatial Imaginaries in the Construction of the UK’s Post-Brexit Trade Policy

    Open Access•Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•New Political Economy•2018•Cited by: 19•References: 12

    A key battle has been fought within the UK cabinet on the direction of post-Brexit trade policy. The opposing sides have favoured either continued alignment or a ‘hard’ break with the European Union’s (EU’s) regulatory and customs regime, in the latter case to allow the UK to pursue an independent and ambitious trade policy agenda. Contrary to much commentary on ‘post-truth’ politics, both sides have relied on rival forms of expertise to support …

  • The Impact of Brexit on EU Trade Policy

    Open Access•Ferdi De Ville, Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•Politics and Governance•2019•Cited by: 3•References: 17

    There has been increased interest in trade policy following the UK’s EU membership referendum. However, relatively little scholarly analysis has been produced on how Brexit will affect EU trade policy. Instead, the received wisdom has been that Brexit will shift the EU’s trade policy position in a less liberal direction. This is based on a ‘static’ analysis where the UK variable is simply removed from the figurative ‘function’ determining EU trad…

  • The Impact of Brexit on EU Policies

    Open Access•Ferdi De Ville, Gabriel Siles-Brügge•ARTICLE•Politics and Governance•2019•Cited by: 6•References: 11

    While the result of the UK’s referendum on membership of the EU has been the subject of considerable scholarly interest, relatively little has been written on the impact of Brexit on the EU. Where academics have addressed the issue, they have tended to either see Brexit through the lens of European ‘(dis)integration’ theory or focused on its ‘static’ effects, assessing the impact of removing the UK from the EU’s policymaking machinery based on it…

  • National Autonomy or Transnational Solidarity? Using Multiple Geographic Frames to Politicize EU Trade Policy

    Open Access•Gabriel Siles-Brügge, Michael Strange•ARTICLE•Politics and Governance•2020•Cited by: 6•References: 12

    The article contributes to our understanding of how trade is politicized and how civil society activists manage the tensions between multiple collective action frames in a complex political context. When viewed alongside the Brexit referendum and Trump’s US Presidency, it is easy to see the 2013–2016 campaign against a European Union–US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership as a further example of an apparently growing populist ‘national…

  • Brexit and trade policy: An analysis of the governance of UK trade policy and what it means for health and social justice

    Open Access•May Ci Van Schalkwyk, Philip Barlow et al.•ARTICLE•Globalization and Health•2021

    BACKGROUND: There is an extensive body of research demonstrating that trade and globalisation can have wide-ranging implications for health. Robust governance is key to ensuring that health, social justice and sustainability are key considerations within trade policy, and that health risks from trade are effectively mitigated and benefits are maximised. The UK's departure from the EU provides a rare opportunity to examine a context where trade go…

  • Rethinking the Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Trade Politics

    Open Access•Jean-Baptiste Velut, Gabriel Siles-Brügge et al.•ARTICLE•New Political Economy•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 7

    The economic populism said to be represented by the votes for Brexit and Donald Trump and the breakdown in trade and investment following the COVID-19 outbreak have rekindled interest in the redistributive consequences of trade liberalisation. Against this backdrop, the authors in this Special Section consider the broader drivers of inclusion and exclusion in trade governance, focusing on the trade politics of Canada, the European Union and the U…

  • UK‐US Trade Relations and ‘Global Britain’

    Open Access•Tony Heron, Gabriel Siles-Brügge et al.•ARTICLE•The Political Quarterly•2021•Cited by: 7

    A UK‐US free trade agreement has consistently been presented as the main prize from the UK's much touted post‐Brexit trade policy independence. The UK Prime Minister's admission that this was not going to be realised any time soon may have surprised media pundits, but it merely confirmed what had become increasingly apparent since the referendum: that a free trade agreement with the US was a long shot. Taken together with the short‐lived suggesti…

  • Reflections on the Present and Future of European Studies: Expanding our Understanding of EUrope

    Open Access•Paul James Cardwell, Roberta Guerrina et al.•ARTICLE•JCMS Journal of Common Market…•2022•References: 5

  • The dynamics of municipal contestation: Responses From Local Government to Perceived Policy Threats From Higher Authorities

    Open Access•Imrat Verhoeven, Michael Strange et al.•ARTICLE•Policy & Politics•2022•Cited by: 4•References: 8

    This article focuses on the conflictual relations at the heart of what we call ‘municipal contestation’. This global phenomenon sees cities and other local governments – sometimes together with non-governmental players – contest policies proposed or implemented by higher governmental authorities, which they perceive as threats to their policy positions or local communities. Bridging public policy studies and social movement theory, we develop a n…

  • Performing trade: Global Britain’ and the UK’s post-Brexit free trade agreements with Australia and New Zealand

    Open Access•Tony Heron, Gabriel Siles-Brügge et al.•ARTICLE•Review of International Political…•2025•Cited by: 4•References: 10

  • Spatial Imaginaries and the Geopolitics of Trade: A Constructivist Perspective

    Open Access•Ece Özlem Atikcan, Achim Hurrelmann et al.•ARTICLE•Geopolitics•2025•References: 84

    This Special Issue explores the spatial politics of trade through a constructivist lens. While recent debates in international trade policy have emphasised geostrategic concerns, we argue that space in trade governance is not merely a geopolitical backdrop, but a politically contested arena. The establishment, management, and contestation of trade relations are shaped by, and contribute to, social constructions of space, including the power struc…

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