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EU Unilateral Power to Regulate the Global Trade Markets: The Brussels Effect

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  • N. Ejims Enwukwe
  • Lisa Karekezi

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This paper examines the unprecedented and heavily underrated global power that the EU exerts through its legal institutions and standards, and how it successfully transports that influence to the rest of the world. It pays particular attention to Prof Anu Bradford’s examples and some of the relevant agreements and negotiations that has been used to achieve this feat.

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  • N. Ejims Enwukwe & Lisa Karekezi, 2022. "EU Unilateral Power to Regulate the Global Trade Markets: The Brussels Effect," European Journal of Law and Political Science, European Open Science, vol. 1(3), pages 5-10, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:epw:politi:v:1:y:2022:i:3:id:8003
    DOI: 10.24018/ejpolitics.2022.1.3.3
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    1. Bennett, Colin J., 1991. "What Is Policy Convergence and What Causes It?," British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 21(2), pages 215-233, April.
    2. Bradford, Anu, 2015. "Exporting standards: The externalization of the EU's regulatory power via markets," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 42(C), pages 158-173.
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