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Transformations in Trade Politics: Participatory Trade Politics in West Africa

Transformations in Trade Politics: Participatory Trade Politics in West Africa

Hardcover

Series: Global Institutions

Business GeneralGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0415819733
ISBN13: 9780415819732
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 21 2013
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.82 Depth: 8.84
Language: English

This book examines the evolution and application of participatory trade politics in West Africa and discusses the theoretical implications for political economy and global governance approaches to trade policy-making.

The author traces the involvement of a network of West African global justice Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO), local NGO and movement platforms, and trade unions in the negotiations for an Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union. Building on this empirical analysis, she develops a theoretical framework of trade policy formation that is not limited to conceptualizing trade as a policy field aimed exclusively at regulating exporting and importing activities in the global economy. Instead, she analyzes how material and ideational spheres interact in the way in which communities set the rules that enable them to trade across long distances. Attempting to reconcile demands for inclusivity with current economic policy-making, the author reframes the way in which we theoretically pose questions of who makes trade policy decisions, through which mechanisms and why trade policy-making practices change, or resist change.

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