Forced to Be Good: Why Trade Agreements Boost Human Rights

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Democracy, Development, and the International System (2011, background): “…and economic openness (pushed by regional powers such as the European Union) may be offered conditional on some measure of political liberalization (Hafner-Burton 2009) or because they increase the degree of asset mobility, which in turn makes states more willing to reduce repression (Boix 2003,…”
Greening up: the effects of environmental standards in EU and US trade agreements (2017, background): “These enforcement mechanisms should matter irrespective of the provisions’ legality or government will (Hafner-Burton 2009; Baccini and Urpelainen 2014a).”
The domestic battle over the design of non-trade issues in preferential trade agreements (2016, background): “Referring to the literature, I found no support for the ’power leverage’ argument (Hafner-Burton, 2009; Milewicz et al., 2016).”
Does dialogue work? The effectiveness of labor standards in EU preferential trade agreements (2014, background): “Although Hafner-Burton (2009) highlights Kim’s (2012) argument by demonstrating Chile’s improved labor laws, with the revision of its Labor Code, during the negotiation stage of its US PTA,4 no scholarship examines the effect of the EU PTA on Chilean labor conditions.”