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The European Union's Policy Towards Mercosur: Responsive Not Strategic

Hardback

Main Details

Title The European Union's Policy Towards Mercosur: Responsive Not Strategic
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Arantza Gomez Arana
SeriesEuropean Politics
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
ISBN/Barcode 9780719096945
ClassificationsDewey:327.408
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 14 February 2017
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This book provides a distinctive and empirically rich account of the European Union's relationship with the Common Market of the South (Mercosur). It seeks to examine the motivations that determine the EU's policy towards Mercosur; the most important relationship the EU has with another regional economic integration organization. In order to investigate these motivations (or lack thereof), this study examines the contribution of the main policy- and decision-makers, the European Commission and the Council of Ministers, as well as the different contributions of the two institutions. It analyses the development of EU policy towards Mercosur in relation to three key stages. Arana argues that the dominant explanations in the literature fail to adequately explain the EU's policy, in particular, these accounts tend to infer the EU's motives from its activity. Rather than the EU pursuing a strategy, as implied by most of the existing literature, the EU was largely responsive, which explains why the relationship is much less developed than the EU's relations with other parts of the world. -- .

Author Biography

Arantza Gomez Arana is Lecturer in Security and Criminology at Birmingham City University -- .