Coherence of the European Union Trade Policy with Its Non-Trade Objectives

Miriam Manchin is Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano and a Senior Researcher at the World Trade Institute (WTI) in Bern. Her current research and past publications focus on the economic integration, trade agreements, cross-border production chains, business groups, multinational firms, trade and development, and migration. Laura Puccio is part-time Professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles. She was previously a Research Fellow at the Global Governance Programme of the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, working for the RESPECT project on EU external relations and trade law and policy. Aydin B. Yildirim is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). He previously served as a Marie Curie Fellow at the World Trade Institute and a Max Weber Fellow at the EUI. His research focuses on international relations, international political economy, and the politics of trade policy.

Part I. Overview of EU's Trade Policy and NTPOs: Introduction; 1. The economic and political economy dimension of linking trade to NTPOs and descriptive chapter on EU and NTPOs Lisa Lechner and A. Yildirim; Part II. Trade and NTPOs: 2. EU: Soft and Smart Power in Aid and Trade? Peter Holmes, J. Magntorn Garrett and J. Rollo; 3. EU export credit agencies Kamala Dawar; 4. Investments and NTPOs Hugo Rojas-Romagosa; Part III. Geographical Case Studies: 5. How EU trade and cooperation policies stimulated China to go green? Jacques Pelkman; 6. The role of domestic factors in the EU's governance of labour standards through trade SDF Franklin Maduko, T. Pal and L. Bruszt; Part IV. Instruments: 7. EU trade agreements and non-trade policy objectives Alessandro Ferrari, M. Fiorini, J. Francois, B. Hoekman, L. Lechner, M. Manchin and F. Santi; 8. Monitoring and enforcement mechanisms Wolfgang Weiss; 9. Multilateral cooperation, the G20 and the EU: soft power for greater coherence? Bernard Hoekman and R. Wilkinson.