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The Political Economy of the EU Approach to the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar
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Abstract European institutions have repeatedly represented the EU as an actor that can use the attractiveness of its market to promote human rights internationally. From this perspective, EU trade sanctions represent a hard power tool to push the government of states accused of major human rights violations ... mehr
European institutions have repeatedly represented the EU as an actor that can use the attractiveness of its market to promote human rights internationally. From this perspective, EU trade sanctions represent a hard power tool to push the government of states accused of major human rights violations to abide by international law. In its reaction to the Rohingya crisis in 2018, despite the European Parliament’s call for the lifting of Myanmar’s trade preferences, the Council of the EU stated that it would rather tackle the problem by taking a “constructive approach” based on dialogue. We provide a political-economy explanation of this choice, making a plausible case that the political pressures from European importers and exporters, not to jeopardise trade relations with Myanmar, prevailed over the demands of European protectionist groups and NGOs advocating a tougher position. The firms interested in maintaining preferential trade relations with Myanmar were primarily motivated by a desire to avoid a disruption of trade and investment links within global value chains (GVCs) so that they could continue competing with Chinese enterprises.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
EU; Außenpolitik; Menschenrechte; wirtschaftliche Sanktion; Wirtschaftsbeziehungen; Handel; Protektionismus; Myanmar; Südostasien
Klassifikation
internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik
Europapolitik
Freie Schlagwörter
generalised system of preferences
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2022
Seitenangabe
S. 47-57
Zeitschriftentitel
Politics and Governance, 10 (2022) 1
Heftthema
Beyond Foreign Policy? EU Sanctions at the Intersection of Development, Trade, and CFSP
ISSN
2183-2463
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)