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Title
Match Fixing - Predetermined result as EU and the East African Community negotiates Economic Partnership |
Full text
http://rudar.ruc.dk/handle/1800/23259 |
Date
2015 |
Author(s)
Gudmundsen, Ask; Petersen, Kasper Bjerring |
Contributor(s)
Buur, Lars |
Abstract
On October 16 2014, after over seven years, the European Union (EU) and the East Africa Community (EAC) concluded negotiations on a new comprehensive Economic Partner-ship Agreement (EPA). However, the deadline for the conclusion was October 1 and as a consequence EU removed the Community's trade privileges that gave the region the pos-sibility to export products to the EU markets duty and quota-free. This paper argues ' based on Neo-Gramscian theory ' that the EPA is result of a neolib-eral hegemony, of which EU as a prime actor is promoting a neoliberal agenda. By both consent and cohesion is the EU able to pressure the EAC sign the EPA, which enforced market liberalisations and a strengthening of marked-based authority over state-authority. We also show ' through global value chain theory ' how the local associations of exporters pushed for a speedy conclusion of the EPA. Not because they favoured its provisions, but because they did not want to lose the duty-free privileges that EU historically had granted to the EAC countries. |
Subject(s)
EU; EAC; EPA; neo-gramscian; global value chain; global political economy; political economy; international relations; hegemony; neoliberalism |
Language
en |
Type of publication
Thesis; Globale studier / Global studies - not master thesis |
Repository
Roskilde - Roskilde University Digital Archive (RUDAR)
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