The EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement : A Landmark Deal?
In 2006, the Commission published its Global Europe Communication and marked a change from a multilateral to a bilateral trade strategy. Part of the agenda of this new strategy was to strengthen the bilateral trade relations with key Asian states. Initially, the objective was to conclude a region- to-region agreement with ASEAN, which unfortunately did not succeed. Following the suspension of talks, the Council in December 2009 gave the green light to initiate bilateral FTA negotiations with individual ASEAN countries, whilst preserving the strategic objective of a regional FTA.Negotiations for an FTA between the EU and Singapore were launched in 2010 and completed in October 2014. It is the EU’s first FTA with an ASEAN Member State and the second one with a major Asian trading partner. Thus, this agreement paves the way for future FTAs with countries in the region. In the meantime, new negotiations were opened with five other ASEAN states.This paper uses an adapted version of Robert Putnam’s two-level game theory. The approach analyses crucial interactions occurring during a negotiation between the international (Level I) and domestic level (Level II). The EU increases the complexity of these entanglements, since the Level II is composed of a second two-level game between the EU institutions and the Member States (Level III), transforming Putnam’s theory into a three-level games approach. The convergence of the different interests at each level form the “win-set” within which any agreement reached at Level I will be acceptable for Level II and III constituencies.This essay examines the motivations and interests at stake in the negotiations of the EUSFTA including the win-sets of each partner (II.), the ratification process and thereto current deadlock (III.). The final objective is to figure out to which extent the EUSFTA is a model for new FTAs with ASEAN countries, with ASEAN itself and how it may shape the whole European Common Commercial Policy
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[2021]
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Authors: | Bohnenblust, Vincent |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Freihandelsabkommen | Free trade agreement | Handelsabkommen | Trade agreement | Handelsliberalisierung | Trade liberalization | Regionale Wirtschaftsintegration | Regional economic integration |
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freely available
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (13 p) |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments November 14, 2016 erstellt |
Other identifiers: | 10.2139/ssrn.3033136 [DOI] |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237915
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