North-south regional trade agreements as legal regimes : a critical assessment of the EU-SADC economic partnership agreement / Clair Gammage.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gammage, Clair, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Union countries--Foreign relations--Treaties.

European Union countries.

European Union--Developing countries.

European Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.) ; cm.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

This book offers a critical reflection of the North-South regional trade agreements (RTAs), known as the Economic Partnership Agreements, negotiated between the EU and the African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries. Conceiving of regions as legal regimes, Clair Gammage highlights the challenges facing developing countries when negotiating RTAs with developed countries. North-South Regional Trade Agreements as Legal Regimes offers a rich analysis of the negotiations between the EU and the southern African regional group as well as a factual presentation of liberalisation under the final agreement. Interrogating the assumption that economic growth will lead to sustainable development, this book draws insights from the experience of the Caribbean countries as they implement their Economic Partnership Agreement to question the extent to which RTAs between developed and developing countries will and can promote development through trade. This unique book will appeal to academics and advanced students in international trade law and development law. Trade practitioners in government, the private sector and civil society, including those involved in policy making and challenging the policy making process will appreciate the author's lucid analysis of analysis of the law and the broader concept of promoting development through trade.

Contents:

Contents: 1. Integration through law

2. Regional trade agreements as legal regimes

3. The EU as a global actor

4. The normative legal character of sustainable development

5. Transforming the ACP-EU 'special' relationship

6. African regionalisms as flexible legal regimes

7. Regionalism in Southern Africa

8. The SADC EPA : a driver of development?

9. Lessons from the CARIFORUM EPA

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Bristol (England), 2013) issued under title: Developing countries, 'North-South' regional trade agreements and article XXIV : a critical assessment of the EU-SADC economic partnership agreement.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781784719623

1-78471-962-5