The European Union's Policy Towards Mercosur: Responsive Not Strategic (european Policy Research Unit Series Mup)
by Arantza Gomez Arana /
2017 / English / PDF
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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.
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.
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.
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.
