Regional encounters
Explaining the divergent responses to the EU’s support for regional integration in Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16959647 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tony Heron (0000-0002-1237-2624, University of York), Peg Murray-Evans (0000-0001-7961-220X, University of York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 470-489 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Third World Thematics A TWQ Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2379-9978 • E-ISSN: 2380-2014 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23802014.2016.1281089 |
| OpenAlex | W2592551941 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
In this article, we map and explain the unevenness of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) responses to the EU’s external promotion of regional integration in the context of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). Although the controversies associated with the EPAs are typically attributed to a common set of problems, what remains to be fully explained is why these manifested themselves to a greater or lesser extent in different national and regional contexts. We account for this variance as a product of the degree of congruence between the institutional trajectory of individual regional projects and the model of economic integration prescribed by the EU in its post-Lomé prospectus for the ACP. We describe this congruence as either ‘high’, ‘medium’ or ‘low’ and use this explanatory model to account for variances in ACP responses to the EPAs, which would otherwise provide an untidy fit with accounts preoccupied with the economic determinants of bargaining outcomes
Development economics · Economic geography · Economic integration · Economics · Explanatory model · General partnership · Geography · International trade · Political science · Prospectus · Regional Integration · Regional Policy · Global trade and economics · International Development and Aid · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Psychology
Constructing European Union Trade Policy
Caribbean development alternatives and the Cariforum–European Union economic partnership agreement
Beyond Asymmetry
Studying Regions
Asymmetric bargaining and development trade-offs in the Cariforum-European Union Economic Partnership Agreement
Restructuring north‐south relations
Southern Africa after Apartheid
Regionalism and African agency
Post-Lomé
Pathways from Preferential Trade
Competitive Liberalization and the ‘Global Europe’ Services and Investment Agenda
Limits to market power
Actorness beyond the E uropean U nion
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |