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Realist Power Europe? The EU in the Negotiations about China's and Russia's WTO Accession

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What determines the preferences the EU represents in international trade negotiations? This article argues that realist theories can help to answer this question. Whereas, the majority of the literature on EU trade policy‐making looks at ‘domestic’ variables such as institutional factors and the influence of interest groups, a systemic approach such as realism is rarely employed. However, as the empirical case studies of China's and Russia's WTO accession show, in international trade negotiations the EU is motivated by geoeconomic and mercantilist considerations to an important degree, specifically the interest to maximize EU wealth relative to other powers. The article is a pledge for taking realism seriously in research on preference formation in EU external policies.

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  • Hubert Zimmermann, 2007. "Realist Power Europe? The EU in the Negotiations about China's and Russia's WTO Accession," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 45(4), pages 813-832, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jcmkts:v:45:y:2007:i:4:p:813-832
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2007.00749.x
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    1. Antoniades, Andreas, 2009. "Social Europe and/or global Europe? Globalization and flexicurity as debates on the future of Europe," MPRA Paper 28871, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Meissner Katharina, 2023. "Caught up by Geopolitics: Sanctions and the EU’s Response to Russia’s War Against Ukraine," The Economists' Voice, De Gruyter, vol. 20(2), pages 275-283, December.
    3. Stella Ladi & Dimitris Tsarouhas, 2017. "International diffusion of regulatory governance: EU actorness in public procurement," Regulation & Governance, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 11(4), pages 388-403, December.

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