Forging their path in the Brussels bubble? Civil society resistance within the domestic advisory groups created under the EU trade agreements

Potjomkina, Diāna; Orbie, Jan; Shahin, Jamal

doi:10.1080/09557571.2020.1855110

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“…Holdo (2020, p. 106) further looks into the linkage of meta-deliberation to legitimacy, arguing that inclusive meta-deliberation "provides societies with reflective capacity, which helps them locate systemic weaknesses", open up to alternative viewpoints and empower marginalized groups. Societies that lack such reflective capacity will also lack tools to address and resolve confrontation (Holdo, 2020).In fact, as Holdo also shows, meta-participation is closely related to the notion of resistance, which we discussed in a previous article on the DAGs (Potjomkina et al, 2020). However, we would like to argue that meta-participation is a more specific concept: Its primary logic is productive, with a focus on creating or changing participatory mechanisms (Trilla & Novella, 2001), while resistance could be both productive and negative.…”

Section: Meta-participation: To Change the Status Quomentioning

confidence: 86%

“…The TSD chapters have separate dispute settlement procedures, which do not foresee sanctions and cannot be directly triggered by civil society. This setup has often raised dissatisfaction among civil society, policy-makers and academia (Harrison et al, 2018(Harrison et al, , 2019Kube, 2019;Potjomkina, Orbie, & Shahin, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Instead, Peruvian civil society has responded with several creative activities aimed at changing the dysfunctional status quo of the existing participation system, which we conceptualize as meta-participation. Civil society carries out similar meta-participation activities in the framework of other EU's FTAs (Potjomkina et al, 2020), but their scope and coherence is unique in the Peruvian case, which explains its choice as the case study for this research. In particular, this is the only currently known case where civil society organizes in self-constituted (autoconformado in Spanish) or what we call "shadow" DAG; a similar process occurred in Colombia (Resumen, 2017) but the DAG was subsequently recognized by the authorities.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Meta-participation in multistakeholder mechanisms: Peruvian civil society and the free trade agreement with the EU

Potjomkina

2023

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This paper elaborates on the relatively unknown concept of meta-participation: stakeholders’ attempts to reorganize the way in which their participation in decision-making is organized. It also applies these conceptual insights to an empirical study of Peruvian civil society. Relying on primary documents and interviews with stakeholders, the article analyzes meta-participation in the framework of Peru’s Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the European Union, showing why and how Peruvian civil society has sought to improve the way in which the participation opportunities offered in the framework of the FTA have been implemented. The article has been developed in an abductive manner, with conceptual and empirical insights building on each other. Finally, the article also discusses the limitations of these meta-participatory activities. Resumen: Metaparticipación en mecanismos multilaterales: La sociedad civil peruana y el Tratado de Libre Comercio con la Unión Europea El artículo elabora el relativamente desconocido concepto de metaparticipación: Los intentos de las partes interesadas en reorganizar el modo en el que se organiza su participación en la toma de decisiones. Asimismo, aplica estas perspectivas conceptuales a un estudio empírico de la sociedad civil peruana. Basándose en documentos primarios y entrevistas con las partes interesadas, el artículo analiza la metaparticipación en el marco del Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) de Perú con la Unión Europea y muestra por qué y cómo la sociedad civil ha intentado mejorar la implementación de los espacios de consulta proporcionados en el marco del TLC. El articulo ha sido desarrollado de manera abductiva, en la que las ideas teoréticas y empíricas se refuerzan unas a otras. Finalmente, el articulo también analiza los límites de estas actividades metaparticipativas.

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Meta-participation in multistakeholder mechanisms: Peruvian civil society and the free trade agreement with the EU

Potjomkina

2023

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“…While the power of ideas has long been established in international relations, the constructivist turn in international political economy is more recent (Abdelal et al, 2010). In the trade policy sphere, constructivist approaches are arguably more prominent among scholars of EU trade policy (e.g., De Ville & Gheyle, 2022;Potjomkina et al, 2022;Siles-Brügge, 2014), often described as "value-based," than those studying the WTO (Lang, 2011) or US trade policy (Goldstein, 1994), where societal approaches emphasizing interest groups mobilization are more common. In practice, however, ideas do not exist ex nihilo and are conveyed and instrumentalized by interests.…”

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Enduring disembeddedness? Understanding the persistence of trade disconnects in US digital trade policy

Velut

2023

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The ever-expanding regulatory scope of “new generation” trade agreements has created new linkages, and thus, new spheres of political conflicts opposing advocates of trade liberalization and free trade critics seeking to make globalization more socially responsible. Scholars have provided different explanations to understand the determining factors behind attempts to re-embed trade, but little attention has been given to the persistence of “trade disconnects”—as opposed to trade linkages—between economic issues and social or environmental externalities that, at the domestic level, can hardly be dissociated. This article proposes to analyze the dynamics and factors of what might be described as persistent disconnects or enduring “disembeddedness” in US trade policy-making. To do so, it examines US digital trade policy and its mixed social record by comparing two issues: labor rights and data privacy. This article builds upon recent scholarship on deliberative forms of exclusion in trade policy-making to track the hidden dynamics of “non-decision-making.” It demonstrates that discursive, institutional, inter-scalar, and countermobilizing processes have restricted the terms of political participation and perpetuated a disconnect between digital trade and labor rights, by contrast with the growing trade linkages with data privacy.

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“…As was shown by some studies, civil participatory mechanisms lack real impact on policy, and their capacities to monitor the execution of an agreement are limited (Drieghe et al, 2021). It has been suggested to break down domestic advisory groups into smaller thematic groups following different aspects of sustainability and trade, including animal welfare matters (Ashraf & van Seters, 2020), and provide funding to allow civil society to actively participate in such groups (BEUC, 2021;Potjomkina et al, 2020).…”

Section: Civil Society Participationmentioning

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Farm to fork strategy: Animal welfare, EU trade policy, and public participation

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Burke

2022

Applied Eco Perspectives Pol

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This article presents an analysis of the Farm to Fork Strategy (F2F Strategy) on animal welfare matters though the lens of EU trade policy and public participation. It shows that the mix of cooperation tools contained in bilateral agreements with trade components support in aggregate the Strategy's actions on animal welfare. However, individual bilateral agreements may need to be renegotiated and modernised to include more powerful cooperation tools to achieve sustainable food systems through the adoption and implementation of animal welfare standards. One way of achieving this is to negotiate the inclusion of sustainable food systems chapters that highlight the linkages between animal welfare, agriculture, sustainability, climate, environment, and public health. However, such robust chapters should be monitored and enforced in a correspondingly robust manner, for example, by restructuring chapters' committees and work groups. The article concludes that enhanced public participation, both at the level of legislative proposals (public consultations) and at the level of trade policy (domestic advisory groups, standardisation committees), may better support achieving policy Ciar an Burke, Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies, Friedich Schiller University and Legal Officer, EFTA Surveillance Authority. The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone, and do not represent the position of the EFTA Surveillance Authority.

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Forging their path in the Brussels bubble? Civil society resistance within the domestic advisory groups created under the EU trade agreements

Cited by 7 publications

References 62 publications

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Enduring disembeddedness? Understanding the persistence of trade disconnects in US digital trade policy

Farm to fork strategy: Animal welfare, EU trade policy, and public participation

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