EU Trade Strategies

All is not well in the World Trade Organization. Does a global economy require global institutions? One possible alternative is interregionalism: economic integration between two distinct regions. This book explores the logic of interregionalism by focusing on the European Union, which has pursued agreements with Latin America, East Asia, and the Southern Mediterranean, among others. Why has the EU pursued this strategy? Based on a novel theoretical framework, the authors in this book explore EU interregionalism to provide us with insight into this new emerging face of the international political economy. BEVERLY CRAWFORD Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA CDRIC DUPONT Associate Professor of Political Science, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland HILDE D. ENGELEN Ph.D. candidate, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland JRG FAUST Senior Researcher, German Institute of Development (DIE), Bonn, Germany JULIE GILSON Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham, UK JOHN RAVENHILL Chair of Politics, University of Edinburgh, UK