Clara Weinhardt
Biographic Data
| ID | 4096892 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clara Weinhardt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clara |
| FAMILY NAME | Weinhardt |
| SIGNATURE | WEINHARDT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maastricht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1830-1189 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Developing countries in global trade governance: Comparing norms on inequality in the WTO and GSP schemes
Global power shifts have led to pressure to adjust the rules of global trade governance to new realities. In this context, we look at changing norms on how to deal with inequality between countries in global trade governance. Treating countries in different economic conditions differently has been a common feature of the world trade regime since the mid-1960s, classifying countries either as 'developed' or 'developing'. This paper asks how the no…
The Geoeconomic Turn in International Trade, Investment, and Technology
This thematic issue brings together a set of articles that empirically map the state of the ongoing geoeconomic turn in the global political economy from an international political economy (IPE) perspective. Changes in the modus operandi of the global political economy urge the development of new conceptual and theoretical tools to grasp the new geoeconomic reality of world affairs. At the same time, the contemporary study of geoeconomics remains…
The Geoeconomic Turn in EU Trade and Investment Policy: Implications for Developing Countries
The so-called geoeconomic turn in global trade policy-making has changed the context in which the European Union positions itself as a trade actor. However, there is little scholarly attention paid to how the geoeconomic turn affects the EU’s relations with developing countries. This article analyses the potential implications of new EU autonomous trade and investment instruments for developing countries, and how the EU has taken these consequenc…
Contesting China’s Developing Country Status: Geoeconomics and the Public–Private Divide in Global Economic Governance
The geopolitical rise of emerging economies has led to contestations and renegotiations of the boundaries of the developing country status. Established powers put pressure on emerging economies to give up this status and the benefits it comes with in global regimes. In this article, we analyse the (re)negotiation of China’s developing country status within the context of US–China geoeconomic competition with respect to two core areas in the globa…
Differential treatment for developing countries in the WTO: The unmaking of the North–South distinction in a multipolar world
This article examines the implications of the rise of new powers in the Global South for a central principle of global order: the distinction between the ‘North’ and the ‘South’, or ‘developed’ and ‘developing countries’, that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century. In doing so, we assess whether, and if so, how, the increasing tension between the binary ‘North–South’ distinction and growing heterogeneity within the Global South – as…
Developing-country status at the WTO: The divergent strategies of Brazil, India and China
The global power shift towards Brazil, India, China and other non-western powers has led to pressures to adjust international institutions to new economic realities. Most power shift theories assume that established powers defend their institutional privileges, while emerging powers challenge them. Conversely, in this article we reverse this assumption by shedding light on 'privileges' of the weak: many international institutions have established…
The Developed/Developing Country Division in the Global Economy: Losing Traction in the Covid-19 Era
This essay revisits the developed/developing country division in the global economy in the light of the economic repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic. A trend that precedes the pandemic has been a seeming detachment of the binary distinction between “developed” versus “developing” countries and what has been described as growing economic diversity in the so-called “developing world.” While emerging markets such as Brazil, India, or China have b…
Politicisation ‘Reversed’: EU Free Trade Negotiations with West Africa and the Caribbean
The politicisation of recent European Union (EU) trade negotiations such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership or the Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement suggests that the more negotiations focus on deep integration issues, the higher the potential for polarization of values and interests. Yet, as we argue, this pattern does not necessarily hold true in EU trade negotiations with the developing world. In the case of the Eco…
Emerging Powers in the World Trading System: Contestation of the Developing Country Status and the Reproduction of Inequalities
This article investigates discursive struggles over the boundaries of the categorisation of developing countries in the world trade regime. A key principle of the World Trade Organization (WTO) grants special rights to the group of developing countries. Recently, it has become highly contested whether emerging economies such as China can legitimately claim to belong to the group of developing countries. This article uncovers how old and new econo…
Negotiating Trade in Uncertain Worlds: Misperception and Contestation in EU-West Africa Relations
Varieties of contestation: China’s rise and the liberal trade order
This article reassesses whether, and if so how and why, China contests the WTO’s liberal trade order. Our framework on ‘varieties of contestation’ goes beyond the mainstream view of a monolithic Chinese trade policy that either challenges or supports the liberal trade order. We propose a two-step approach that allows for a more differentiated assessment. First, a constructivist analysis captures the extent to which China embraces liberal trade no…
Negotiating Trade in Uncertain Worlds: Misperception and Contestation in EU-West Africa Relations
(Mis)Perceptions in Two‐ and Three‐Level Games: Detachment in Economic Partnership Agreement Negotiations
This article builds on the literature on trade negotiating constraints to advance a reconceptualization of Putnam's () two‐level game that accounts for the possibility of detachment. Limited institutional capacities for collecting and transmitting information about the domestic win‐set may prevent domestic constituents from exerting influence on the negotiator. This perspective sheds new light on the outcomes of negotiations in two‐level games, a…
Sweet talk: Paternalism and collective action in North–South trade relations
Sweet talk, University of Edinburgh Professor JP Singh’s latest book, offers a provocative and original perspective on North–South trade relations that centres on paternalism. According to Singh, p
Playing Different Games: Uncertain Rules in EU–West Africa Trade Negotiations
The outcomes of international negotiations cannot be understood without considering how participants behave strategically. But how do "rules of the game" in negotiations-and the uncertainty that often surrounds them-shape this behavior? I examine the 2002-2007 period of the negotiations of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union and West Africa. I argue that both sides made misguided strategic choices. Their misperceptio…
Relational trust in international cooperation: The case of North–South trade negotiations
The positive impact of trust on the willingness to cooperate has been widely recognised within social sciences. Trust, however, has not been adequately incorporated into the dominant paradigms on explaining international cooperation in international relations. This paper argues that in situations of uncertainty, trusting or mistrusting a cooperation partner influences the negotiating behaviour of state actors. Trusting behaviour is understood to …
Varieties of contestation: China’s rise and the liberal trade order
This article reassesses whether, and if so how and why, China contests the WTO’s liberal trade order. Our framework on ‘varieties of contestation’ goes beyond the mainstream view of a monolithic Chinese trade policy that either challenges or supports the liberal trade order. We propose a two-step approach that allows for a more differentiated assessment. First, a constructivist analysis captures the extent to which China embraces liberal trade no…
(Mis)Perceptions in Two‐ and Three‐Level Games: Detachment in Economic Partnership Agreement Negotiations
This article builds on the literature on trade negotiating constraints to advance a reconceptualization of Putnam's () two‐level game that accounts for the possibility of detachment. Limited institutional capacities for collecting and transmitting information about the domestic win‐set may prevent domestic constituents from exerting influence on the negotiator. This perspective sheds new light on the outcomes of negotiations in two‐level games, a…
Relational trust in international cooperation: The case of North–South trade negotiations
The positive impact of trust on the willingness to cooperate has been widely recognised within social sciences. Trust, however, has not been adequately incorporated into the dominant paradigms on explaining international cooperation in international relations. This paper argues that in situations of uncertainty, trusting or mistrusting a cooperation partner influences the negotiating behaviour of state actors. Trusting behaviour is understood to …
Politicisation ‘Reversed’: EU Free Trade Negotiations with West Africa and the Caribbean
The politicisation of recent European Union (EU) trade negotiations such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership or the Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement suggests that the more negotiations focus on deep integration issues, the higher the potential for polarization of values and interests. Yet, as we argue, this pattern does not necessarily hold true in EU trade negotiations with the developing world. In the case of the Eco…
Playing Different Games: Uncertain Rules in EU–West Africa Trade Negotiations
The outcomes of international negotiations cannot be understood without considering how participants behave strategically. But how do "rules of the game" in negotiations-and the uncertainty that often surrounds them-shape this behavior? I examine the 2002-2007 period of the negotiations of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union and West Africa. I argue that both sides made misguided strategic choices. Their misperceptio…
The Geoeconomic Turn in International Trade, Investment, and Technology
This thematic issue brings together a set of articles that empirically map the state of the ongoing geoeconomic turn in the global political economy from an international political economy (IPE) perspective. Changes in the modus operandi of the global political economy urge the development of new conceptual and theoretical tools to grasp the new geoeconomic reality of world affairs. At the same time, the contemporary study of geoeconomics remains…
Emerging Powers in the World Trading System: Contestation of the Developing Country Status and the Reproduction of Inequalities
This article investigates discursive struggles over the boundaries of the categorisation of developing countries in the world trade regime. A key principle of the World Trade Organization (WTO) grants special rights to the group of developing countries. Recently, it has become highly contested whether emerging economies such as China can legitimately claim to belong to the group of developing countries. This article uncovers how old and new econo…
The Geoeconomic Turn in EU Trade and Investment Policy: Implications for Developing Countries
The so-called geoeconomic turn in global trade policy-making has changed the context in which the European Union positions itself as a trade actor. However, there is little scholarly attention paid to how the geoeconomic turn affects the EU’s relations with developing countries. This article analyses the potential implications of new EU autonomous trade and investment instruments for developing countries, and how the EU has taken these consequenc…
Differential treatment for developing countries in the WTO: The unmaking of the North–South distinction in a multipolar world
This article examines the implications of the rise of new powers in the Global South for a central principle of global order: the distinction between the ‘North’ and the ‘South’, or ‘developed’ and ‘developing countries’, that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century. In doing so, we assess whether, and if so, how, the increasing tension between the binary ‘North–South’ distinction and growing heterogeneity within the Global South – as…
Sweet talk: Paternalism and collective action in North–South trade relations
Sweet talk, University of Edinburgh Professor JP Singh’s latest book, offers a provocative and original perspective on North–South trade relations that centres on paternalism. According to Singh, p
Developing-country status at the WTO: The divergent strategies of Brazil, India and China
The global power shift towards Brazil, India, China and other non-western powers has led to pressures to adjust international institutions to new economic realities. Most power shift theories assume that established powers defend their institutional privileges, while emerging powers challenge them. Conversely, in this article we reverse this assumption by shedding light on 'privileges' of the weak: many international institutions have established…
Relational trust in international cooperation: The case of North–South trade negotiations
The positive impact of trust on the willingness to cooperate has been widely recognised within social sciences. Trust, however, has not been adequately incorporated into the dominant paradigms on explaining international cooperation in international relations. This paper argues that in situations of uncertainty, trusting or mistrusting a cooperation partner influences the negotiating behaviour of state actors. Trusting behaviour is understood to …
Sweet talk: Paternalism and collective action in North–South trade relations
Sweet talk, University of Edinburgh Professor JP Singh’s latest book, offers a provocative and original perspective on North–South trade relations that centres on paternalism. According to Singh, p
Playing Different Games: Uncertain Rules in EU–West Africa Trade Negotiations
The outcomes of international negotiations cannot be understood without considering how participants behave strategically. But how do "rules of the game" in negotiations-and the uncertainty that often surrounds them-shape this behavior? I examine the 2002-2007 period of the negotiations of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union and West Africa. I argue that both sides made misguided strategic choices. Their misperceptio…
(Mis)Perceptions in Two‐ and Three‐Level Games: Detachment in Economic Partnership Agreement Negotiations
This article builds on the literature on trade negotiating constraints to advance a reconceptualization of Putnam's () two‐level game that accounts for the possibility of detachment. Limited institutional capacities for collecting and transmitting information about the domestic win‐set may prevent domestic constituents from exerting influence on the negotiator. This perspective sheds new light on the outcomes of negotiations in two‐level games, a…
Negotiating Trade in Uncertain Worlds: Misperception and Contestation in EU-West Africa Relations
Varieties of contestation: China’s rise and the liberal trade order
This article reassesses whether, and if so how and why, China contests the WTO’s liberal trade order. Our framework on ‘varieties of contestation’ goes beyond the mainstream view of a monolithic Chinese trade policy that either challenges or supports the liberal trade order. We propose a two-step approach that allows for a more differentiated assessment. First, a constructivist analysis captures the extent to which China embraces liberal trade no…
Negotiating Trade in Uncertain Worlds: Misperception and Contestation in EU-West Africa Relations
Politicisation ‘Reversed’: EU Free Trade Negotiations with West Africa and the Caribbean
The politicisation of recent European Union (EU) trade negotiations such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership or the Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement suggests that the more negotiations focus on deep integration issues, the higher the potential for polarization of values and interests. Yet, as we argue, this pattern does not necessarily hold true in EU trade negotiations with the developing world. In the case of the Eco…
Emerging Powers in the World Trading System: Contestation of the Developing Country Status and the Reproduction of Inequalities
This article investigates discursive struggles over the boundaries of the categorisation of developing countries in the world trade regime. A key principle of the World Trade Organization (WTO) grants special rights to the group of developing countries. Recently, it has become highly contested whether emerging economies such as China can legitimately claim to belong to the group of developing countries. This article uncovers how old and new econo…
The Developed/Developing Country Division in the Global Economy: Losing Traction in the Covid-19 Era
This essay revisits the developed/developing country division in the global economy in the light of the economic repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic. A trend that precedes the pandemic has been a seeming detachment of the binary distinction between “developed” versus “developing” countries and what has been described as growing economic diversity in the so-called “developing world.” While emerging markets such as Brazil, India, or China have b…
Differential treatment for developing countries in the WTO: The unmaking of the North–South distinction in a multipolar world
This article examines the implications of the rise of new powers in the Global South for a central principle of global order: the distinction between the ‘North’ and the ‘South’, or ‘developed’ and ‘developing countries’, that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century. In doing so, we assess whether, and if so, how, the increasing tension between the binary ‘North–South’ distinction and growing heterogeneity within the Global South – as…
Developing-country status at the WTO: The divergent strategies of Brazil, India and China
The global power shift towards Brazil, India, China and other non-western powers has led to pressures to adjust international institutions to new economic realities. Most power shift theories assume that established powers defend their institutional privileges, while emerging powers challenge them. Conversely, in this article we reverse this assumption by shedding light on 'privileges' of the weak: many international institutions have established…
The Geoeconomic Turn in International Trade, Investment, and Technology
This thematic issue brings together a set of articles that empirically map the state of the ongoing geoeconomic turn in the global political economy from an international political economy (IPE) perspective. Changes in the modus operandi of the global political economy urge the development of new conceptual and theoretical tools to grasp the new geoeconomic reality of world affairs. At the same time, the contemporary study of geoeconomics remains…
The Geoeconomic Turn in EU Trade and Investment Policy: Implications for Developing Countries
The so-called geoeconomic turn in global trade policy-making has changed the context in which the European Union positions itself as a trade actor. However, there is little scholarly attention paid to how the geoeconomic turn affects the EU’s relations with developing countries. This article analyses the potential implications of new EU autonomous trade and investment instruments for developing countries, and how the EU has taken these consequenc…
Contesting China’s Developing Country Status: Geoeconomics and the Public–Private Divide in Global Economic Governance
The geopolitical rise of emerging economies has led to contestations and renegotiations of the boundaries of the developing country status. Established powers put pressure on emerging economies to give up this status and the benefits it comes with in global regimes. In this article, we analyse the (re)negotiation of China’s developing country status within the context of US–China geoeconomic competition with respect to two core areas in the globa…
Developing countries in global trade governance: Comparing norms on inequality in the WTO and GSP schemes
Global power shifts have led to pressure to adjust the rules of global trade governance to new realities. In this context, we look at changing norms on how to deal with inequality between countries in global trade governance. Treating countries in different economic conditions differently has been a common feature of the world trade regime since the mid-1960s, classifying countries either as 'developed' or 'developing'. This paper asks how the no…
Political science (14 works) · Economics (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (10 works) · International trade (9 works) · International Development and Aid (8 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Global trade and economics (6 works) · Politics (6 works)