The European Union as a conflicted trade power

By Sophie Meunier, Kalypso Nicolaïdis. 2006

345 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Development, Law, Political Science and International Relations

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In Development

1. S. Lavenex
2. C. Damro
3. J. Peterson
4. Alasdair R. Young
5. Evgeny Postnikov
6. Sophie Meunier
7. Ida Bastiaens
8. Kalypso Nicolaïdis

In Law

1. S. Lavenex
2. C. Damro
3. Evgeny Postnikov
4. Ida Bastiaens

In Political Science and International Relations

1. S. Lavenex
2. Kalypso Nicolaïdis
3. Sophie Meunier
4. C. Damro
5. Evgeny Postnikov
6. Ida Bastiaens
7. Alasdair R. Young
8. J. Peterson

Citations in the corpus

• Market power Europe (2012, background): “1 Among others, the EU has also been labelled an ethical power (Aggestam 2008), fragmented power (Sapir 2007), realist power (Zimmermann 2007), conflicted trade power (Meunier and Nicolaı̈dis 2006) and transformative power (Leonard 2005).”
• Does dialogue work? The effectiveness of labor standards in EU preferential trade agreements (2014, background): “In other words, how does the EU exercise not only its ‘power in trade’ but also its ‘power through trade’, a subject that keeps intriguing the scholars of EU trade policy (Meunier and Nicolaı̈dis 2006)?”
• The Geopoliticization of European Trade and Investment Policy (2019, background): “In addition to the politicization of trade inside Europe, the EU has also politicized trade during the post-cold war era by using it as a tool of foreign policy – what we have called ‘power through trade’ (Meunier and Nicolaïdis, 2006).”
• The EU and the new trade politics (2006, background): “…its economy is important to other actors, the EU seeks to wield influence by making access to its large and valuable market conditional on domestic policy changes elsewhere (what Meunier and Nicolaı̈dis (2006), in this volume, call ‘power through trade’) or on trade concessions (‘power to trade’).”
• The power of functionalist extension: how EU rules travel (2014, background): “Reminiscent of earlier notions such as ‘trading state’ (Rosencrance 1998) or ‘trade power’ (Meunier and Nicolaidis 2006), Damro argues”