Global governance through trade: an introduction

Marx, Axel; Natens, Bregt; Geraets, Dylan; Wouters, Jan

doi:10.4337/9781783477760.00005

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“…The work presented here has built on extensive research carried out in the GLOBE project, including reviews of the state of global governance at large (Coen et al., 2021, 2022; Tokhi & Ebetürk, 2020), as well as of the four specific issue areas of interest (Coen et al., 2020; Levi‐Faur & Blumsack, 2020; Marx et al., 2020; Sánchez Cobaleda et al., 2020). Similarly, many experts and policymakers have been involved in consultation, validation, and refinement of the work, including GLOBE's advisory board members Pascal Lamy, Connie Hedegaard, Miles Kahler, Antoni Estevadeordal, and Uttara Sahasrabuddhe.…”

Section: Using Scenarios For Global Governance Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

The future(s) of global governance: A scenarios exercise

Saz‐Carranza,

Rueda‐Sabater,

Vandendriessche

et al. 2023

Global Policy

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Pervasive uncertainty has stretched the fabric of global governance to its limit. The shape and form of future global governance is far from clear – yet we need to explore how it may play out, so that we can not only prepare for it but also overcome possible pernicious trajectories. Scenario thinking can be used to rigorously explore different possible outcomes. In this article, we present an exercise applying scenario thinking to global governance. These scenarios should help policymakers to understand which policies may or may not work in the diverse possible futures. They may also help policymakers to consider how their organisation, state, or institution could be affected if the global governance of a specific issue evolves in one direction or another. Civil society members or private companies may want to probe how robust their strategies would be in different global governance configurations. The article synthetically presents key contextual premises and uncertainties which are given as follows: four broad scenarios for the world in 2035; four corresponding scenarios for global governance; and scenarios for the global governance of four macro‐sectors: trade, security, climate change, and finance.

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Section: Using Scenarios For Global Governance Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

The future(s) of global governance: A scenarios exercise

Saz‐Carranza,

Rueda‐Sabater,

Vandendriessche

et al. 2023

Global Policy

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“…Because this approach is invested in the internal determinants of EU trade politics, the 'targets' of GSP and how they think about EU trade are methodologically neglected altogether. The second approach relates to the global governance through trade thesis (Marx et al 2015). It claims to explore why and how the EU externalises non-market governance objectives via trade.…”

Section: Generalised Scheme Of Preferencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decolonising EU Trade Relations with the Global Souths?

Alcazar III,

Nessel,

Orbie

2023

JCER

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That the European Union’s common commercial relations with ex-colonies and more broadly the ‘tiers monde’ now rest variously on benevolence, depoliticised practices, equal partnerships and values fuels reigning foundational myths about the EU in global politics. Efforts to disrupt these received presuppositions have come from interpretivist, postcolonial, post-development, post-structuralist and other heterodox research traditions. Yet the academy has been largely impervious to knowledges that genuinely question and subvert, in both theory and praxis, Eurocentric ways of seeing the world and understanding the EU as a ‘benevolent’ trade actor on the world stage. In dialogue with existing heterodox approaches, this article asks how we might puncture the coloniality of dominant knowledge regimes about EU trade relations vis-à-vis the global souths, i.e., peoples and places that the EU deems peripheral and, as such, in need of trade-related interventions in the name of development. To this end, we propose different ‘subject-positions’ with which to unthink and rethink our ways of knowing EU trade policy and the Eurocentrism lurking behind it by turning to decolonial thought. We borrow heavily from the work of Meera Sabaratnam whose ‘decolonising strategies’ in studying world politics we attempt to exemplify through a critical interrogation of the canonical scholarship around three distinct ‘policy worlds’ of EU external trade relations: Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) and Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) chapters in free trade agreements. Finally, we think reflexively about the decolonial option and the ruptures it triggers as to what EU trade policy is and the colonial logics sustaining ‘normative’ and ‘geopolitical’ narratives on/by the EU as a trade power.

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“…16 It has been argued that, due to this significant market power, the EU's FTAs can deliver global public goods by promoting wide acceptance and implementation of sustainability standards across the globe, with parties to the EU's FTAs persuaded to accept EU standards in exchange for preferential market access, and non-parties motivated by market forces to adopt dominant standards set by the major players in the global market. 17 The EU clearly intends to 'govern through trade', 18 and is committed to using its trade agreements to 'provide strong support to sustainable development by linking trade with development and good governance' 19 as part of its 'responsible trade policy'. 20 In this way, it aims to restore trust in trade liberalisation initiatives.…”

Section: Pursuing Trustworthy Trade Partnershipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mind the compliance gap: managing trustworthy partnerships for sustainable development in the European Union's free trade agreements

Prévost

Alexovicova

2019

IJPLAP

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Global governance through trade: an introduction

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

The future(s) of global governance: A scenarios exercise

The future(s) of global governance: A scenarios exercise

Decolonising EU Trade Relations with the Global Souths?

Mind the compliance gap: managing trustworthy partnerships for sustainable development in the European Union's free trade agreements

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