Seminar: Global Europe. Actors, processes and labor rights in the negotiation of trade agreements
Prof. Dr. Sabrina Zajak
14 - 16 Uhr,
Dienstag
| Ort | GBCF 05/606 |
| Beginn | 07.10.2014 |
Since the stalemate of the WTO negotiations, the European Union is increasingly negotiating bilateral free trade agreements. While negotiations with countries such as Chile, South Korea, or South Africa have gained little public attention, the current negotiations of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) have triggered interest and public debate about the content and procedures of bilateral trade negotiations. Trade policy counts as the most undemocratic policy field within the European Union due to the lack of transparency of behind closed doors negotiations and the limited impact of parliaments. This seminar goes beyond the individual case of the EU-US negotiations and gives an overview on the development of trade negotiations in Europe, but also the attempts of different non-state actors (business, trade unions, social movements) to impact these negotiations. Following questions will be discussed: How did the trade policy field in Europe evolve? In how far did it democratize? What are the strategies and contents in past and ongoing trade negotiations? How are issues of trade, labor, and sustainability linked? What kind of actors try to impact the negotiations and how? How can we explain the differences in the impact of non-state actors on bilateral negotiations?
Einführende Lektüre:
- Bieler, Andreas; Hilary, John; Lindberg, Ingemar (2014 ): Free Trade and Transnational Labour. Special Issue In: Globalizations 11 (1)
- Schirm, Stefan (2002): Globalization and the new regionalism: global markets, domestic politics and regional cooperation: Blackwell Publishing.
- Tugendhat, Christopher Samuel (2014) The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: 14th Report of Session 2013-14.