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‘This Is Not Europe’: Investigating the Commission's Anti‐Populist Articulation of ‘European Values’

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Whilst ‘populism’ is often considered antithetical to ‘European values’, how this contrast shapes the very meaning of such ‘values’ remains underexplored. This article investigates the European Commission's anti‐populist articulation of ‘European values’, which constructs ‘populism’ as their constitutive outside.
Alex Yates
wiley   +1 more source

Unreachable, Inescapable: Sustainable Development as Normative Camouflage in EU–MERCOSUR Trade

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how sustainable development functions as a mechanism of stabilising asymmetry in North–South trade governance, using the European Union (EU)–Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) agreement as a case study. Whilst sustainability is often framed as a normative good or institutional advance, the article shows instead how it ...
Asha Herten‐Crabb
wiley   +1 more source

Geopoliticization and Support for Free Trade in the European Parliament: From Rhetorical Shift to Voting Results

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Strategic and security considerations have become increasingly prominent in trade policy debates, fuelling both liberal and protectionist arguments. However, the extent to which this geopoliticization influences legislative trade attitudes in the European Parliament (EP) remains underexplored.
Lorane Visart
wiley   +1 more source

The Return of Industrial Policy in the EU: A Chance for Central and Eastern Europe?

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This contribution explores the Visegrad four's (V4) responses to the revival of industrial policy in the European Union (EU). To a region so highly industrialised, and so dependent on foreign firms, this revival brings mixed blessings. Industrial policy focused on ‘European champions’ is driving investment towards core regions and firms ...
Vera Šćepanović, Imre G. Szabó
wiley   +1 more source

What Is the Structure of Political Contestation on Digital Policy in Europe? Evidence From the DSA/DMA Package

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In recent years, the European Union (EU) expanded its digital regulatory competences. However, it is not clear which political trade‐offs occur in decision‐making on digital policy issues. This study examines how European parliamentarians and their party groups position themselves on these issues and which conflict lines emerge. Analysing roll
Adam Geoffrey Tyler, Ben Crum
wiley   +1 more source

The Geoeconomic Turn on Stage: National Identity and the Interpretation of the EU's Trade Sustainability Diplomacy in Indonesia and Vietnam

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In the context of the European Union's (EU's) geoeconomic shift, the governance of Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) has become a central yet contested pillar of its external trade policy. Accusations of green colonialism highlight the stakes around how partner countries interpret the EU's normative agenda.
Camille Nessel, Zhihang Wu
wiley   +1 more source

On Local Protectionism in China's Market Development

This article addresses three issues: (1) why local protectionism was a policy abandoned by capitalist countries in their process of industrialization; (2) analysis of the long-term existence of local protectionism in China's market development; and (3 ...
Lin Wenyi
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‘Inside’ the AI Act Negotiations: Three Transversal Narratives in the Struggle for Social Positioning and Identity‐Making

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article adopts a political ethnographic approach to follow narrative practices enacted by diplomats and bureaucrats during the trilogue negotiations of the European Union's (EU) Artificial Intelligence Act where inter‐institutional dynamics were at stake.
Matilde Bro
wiley   +1 more source

Demand Shocks, Export Diversification, and Firm Performance During the Great Trade Collapse

Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the impact of external demand shocks from the 2008 to 2009 Great Trade Collapse on the performance of Chinese exporters and examines how export diversification mitigates these effects. Using Chinese Customs data merged with financial data from all listed Chinese firms, we construct firm‐specific demand shocks based on pre ...
Qianlin Hong, Zeyang Jin, Runjuan Liu, Jiadong Tong   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dependent Articulation in the Global Pesticide Complex: Argentina's Agrochemical Industry After the Generics Market Revolution

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the late 1990s, the pesticide industry has undergone a ‘generics revolution’ as the centre of production, and trade has shifted to the global South. China and India have become major producers, capturing Latin American markets from Northern multinationals. As a major pesticide user and a key node in global supply chains, Argentina offers
Christian Berndt, Tomás Palmisano, Marion Werner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source