Focusing on how Europe pursues strategic trade agreements with Asian partners, as well as the response of the US and China to the strategic context of EU trade policy in Asia, this empirically rich edited volume covers both the negotiations as well the design of specific chapters of preferential trade agreements. “This timely edited volume focuses on the trade preferences of systemic rivals to leverage their power differentials in the Asia-Pacific region. He has published on trade and sustainable development in leading journals and is author of Social Standards in EU and US Trade Agreements (2020). He is the author of National Administrations in EU Trade Policy (2016).Įvgeny Postnikov is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses on institutional politics and EU trade policy. Johan Adriaensen is Assistant Professor at Maastricht University, Netherlands. Empirically, the analysis focuses on the relations between the EU and the Asia-Pacific.
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Building on a refined conceptualisation of geo-economics, the book develops a cogent framework that combines insights from scholarship on the design of free trade agreements with ideas from foreign policy analysis. But how much of that rhetoric is reflected in actual policy choices by the European Union or its trading partners? This book provides the first systematic study of the broader international context in which EU trade agreements are conceived, negotiated, and designed.
A must-read!”Ĭontemporary trade policy is increasingly framed in geo-strategic terms. Bringing together an impressive roster of established and rising scholars from all around the globe, A Geo-Economic Turn in Trade Policy shine a particularly important focus on the Asia-Pacific region, which is of obvious contemporary relevance. It is also notable for its promising merger of the International Political Economy and Foreign Policy literatures, which often exist in their own academic silos. “This great volume is one of the first to address directly the recent geo- politicization of EU trade policy. It will be important for those focusing on the structural power and systemic rivalry in international trade politics in the Asia-Pacific region.” The senior year concludes with two papers completed in an exam setting one is a commentary based on two unseen passages of poetry or prose, the other is a comparative discussion with focus on conventions of the Drama genre.“Focusing on how Europe pursues strategic trade agreements with Asian partners, as well as the response of the US and China to the strategic context of EU trade policy in Asia, this empirically rich edited volume covers both the negotiations as well the design of specific chapters of preferential trade agreements. In the spring of Senior year, students analyze the linguistic conventions used in four works of Drama. In the fall of Senior year, students work with three novels, all works in translation, and prepare a four stage assessment which culminates in a 1200-1500 word essay on the literary aspects of one of these works. In the spring of Junior year, in preparation of an Individual Oral Commentary, students continue this study and strengthen reflection on the power of authors’ rhetorical choices. In the fall of Junior year, in preparation of an Individual Oral Presentation, students study the stylistic techniques of narrative fiction while developing an enhanced understanding of literary devices and conventions of rhetorical style. Students engage in close, detailed readings and reflect critically resulting in the presentation of literary analysis through both oral and written communication. This two-year course is organized into four semesters over a two year period, each semester is focused on a group of literary works meeting requirements of the IB curriculum and emphasizing student exposure to and understanding of a variety of cultures, genres and periods.
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