Alasdair Young

Overview

Interests

Courses

• INTA-2001: Careers In Intl Affairs
• INTA-2221: Politics of the EU
• INTA-3044: Global Politics of Tech
• INTA-3223: Transatlantic Relations
• INTA-3301: Int'l Political Econ
• INTA-4500: INTA Pro-Seminar
• INTA-4740: Sem-Political Economy
• INTA-6306: Globalization

Selected Publications

Books

• Foreign Policy of the European Union

  2017
• The European Union at an Inflection Point: (Dis)integrating or the New Normal?

  2017
• The New Politics of Trade: Lessons from TTIP

  2017
• Triangular Diplomacy among the European Union, the United States and the Russian Federation: Responses to Crisis in Ukraine

  2017
• Policy-Making in the European Union, 7th edn

  2015
• Parochial Global Europe: 21st Century Trade Politics

  2014

Journal Articles

• Intergovernmental Policy Makes Transnational Politics? The Unusually Transnational Politics of TTIP
     In: Cambridge Review of International Affairs [Peer Reviewed]

  April 2018
• Not your parents’ trade politics: The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations
     In: Review of International Political Economy [Peer Reviewed]

  2016
• Europe's Influence on Foreign Rules: Conditions, Context and Comparison
     In: Journal of European Public Policy [Peer Reviewed]

  2015
• Liberalizing trade, not exporting rules: the limits to regulatory co-ordination in the EU's ‘new generation’ preferential trade agreements
     In: Journal of European Public Policy [Peer Reviewed]

  2015

  © 2015 Taylor & Francis.The European Union (EU) is considered both an influential global regulator and a trade power. There is thus a common, if rather casual, assumption that the EU exports its regulations through preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Based on a close textual analysis of four early ‘new generation’ PTAs – those with Canada, Central America, Singapore and South Korea – and the Commission's opening position in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations, this contribution challenges that assumption. Across a broad spectrum of regulatory issues there has been very limited regulatory co-ordination. Moreover, where it has occurred, it has focused on establishing the equivalence of different rules or on convergence based on international, not European, standards. This contribution thus demonstrates that the EU has not exported its regulations through ‘new generation’ PTAs. Moreover, it contends that the EU has not really tried to. It speculates that the EU has not sought to export aggressively its rules through new generation PTAs because of concern that opposition to regulatory change in its partners would jeopardize agreements that would benefit European firms.

Recent Publications

Journal Articles

• Intergovernmental Policy Makes Transnational Politics? The Unusually Transnational Politics of TTIP
     In: Cambridge Review of International Affairs [Peer Reviewed]

  April 2018
• The Politics of Deep Integration
     In: Cambridge Review of International Affairs

  April 2018
• European Trade Policy in Interesting Times
     In: Journal of European Integration [Peer Reviewed]

  December 2017
• “European Trade Policy in Interesting Times"
     In: Journal of European Integration [Peer Reviewed]

  November 2017

All Publications

Books

• Foreign Policy of the European Union

  2017
• The European Union at an Inflection Point: (Dis)integrating or the New Normal?

  2017
• The New Politics of Trade: Lessons from TTIP

  2017
• Triangular Diplomacy among the European Union, the United States and the Russian Federation: Responses to Crisis in Ukraine

  2017
• Policy-Making in the European Union, 7th edn

  2015
• Parochial Global Europe: 21st Century Trade Politics

  2014
• Policy-making in the European Union

  2010

  A wide range of crucial and illustrative policies are then explored in detail by subject experts. This volume includes new chapters on ways of analyzing the EU's policy process and on energy policy.

• The European Union and the New Trade Politics

  2007
• Extending European Cooperation: The European Union and the ‘New’ International Trade Agenda

  2002
• Regulatory Politics in the Enlarging European Union: Weighing Civic and Producer Interests

  2002
• Participation and Policy-Making in the European Union

  1997

Journal Articles

• Intergovernmental Policy Makes Transnational Politics? The Unusually Transnational Politics of TTIP
     In: Cambridge Review of International Affairs [Peer Reviewed]

  April 2018
• The Politics of Deep Integration
     In: Cambridge Review of International Affairs

  April 2018
• European Trade Policy in Interesting Times
     In: Journal of European Integration [Peer Reviewed]

  December 2017
• “European Trade Policy in Interesting Times"
     In: Journal of European Integration [Peer Reviewed]

  November 2017
• The European Union as a Peace Project
     In: British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 19/1

  February 2017
• An inflection point in EU studies?
     In: Journal of European Public Policy, 23/8

  June 2016
• Not your parents’ trade politics: The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations
     In: Review of International Political Economy [Peer Reviewed]

  2016
• Europe's Influence on Foreign Rules: Conditions, Context and Comparison
     In: Journal of European Public Policy [Peer Reviewed]

  2015
• Liberalizing trade, not exporting rules: the limits to regulatory co-ordination in the EU's ‘new generation’ preferential trade agreements
     In: Journal of European Public Policy [Peer Reviewed]

  2015

  © 2015 Taylor & Francis.The European Union (EU) is considered both an influential global regulator and a trade power. There is thus a common, if rather casual, assumption that the EU exports its regulations through preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Based on a close textual analysis of four early ‘new generation’ PTAs – those with Canada, Central America, Singapore and South Korea – and the Commission's opening position in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations, this contribution challenges that assumption. Across a broad spectrum of regulatory issues there has been very limited regulatory co-ordination. Moreover, where it has occurred, it has focused on establishing the equivalence of different rules or on convergence based on international, not European, standards. This contribution thus demonstrates that the EU has not exported its regulations through ‘new generation’ PTAs. Moreover, it contends that the EU has not really tried to. It speculates that the EU has not sought to export aggressively its rules through new generation PTAs because of concern that opposition to regulatory change in its partners would jeopardize agreements that would benefit European firms.

• Europe as a global regulator? The limits of EU influence in international food safety standards
     In: Journal of European Public Policy [Peer Reviewed]

  June 2014

  The European Union (EU) is often depicted as global regulatory power. This contribution contends that this depiction, while not unfounded, is misleading. It aims to clarify under what conditions the EU converts its regulatory capability into influence. Specifically, it seeks to resolve the puzzle of the EU's poor performance in the setting of global food safety standards within the Codex Alimentarius Commission. The argument is deceptively simple. The EU's limited influence is due to it being a preference outlier. In a context where standards can be agreed by voting, the stringency of the EU's regulations, rather than being a source of influence, is a liability. This extreme case demonstrates that the EU's ability to exercise international influence is affected by the constellation of preferences and the distribution of power. This contribution, therefore, contributes to the emerging literature that contends that the EU's international effectiveness can be understood only with explicit reference to the international context within which it is operating. © 2014 Taylor & Francis.

• The value of pointillism? Integrating trade and development and the European Union as a global actor
     In: Contemporary Politics

  January 2014
• 'We care about you, but ... ': the politics of EU trade policy and development
     In: CAMBRIDGE REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS [Peer Reviewed]

  September 2013
• ‘Agriculture Could Prove Undoing of EU-US Trade Deal,’
     In: Oxford Analytica

  February 2013
• The Rise (and Fall?) of the EU's Performance in the Multilateral Trading System
     In: Journal of European Integration [Peer Reviewed]

  November 2011

  The multilateral trading system represents an excellent case for analyzing the factors influencing the EU's performance in international institutions, because of the marked changes that have taken place both in the EU and in the multilateral trading system over the past six decades. Moreover, trade is the international policy arena in which the EU has greatest power resources and greatest institutional capacity. Perhaps not surprisingly, therefore, the EU has long performed well in the multilateral trading system. The article, however, argues that internal changes in the late 1980s and early 1990s enabled the EU to advance a more ambitious agenda in the multilateral trading system. The enhanced ambition translated temporarily into enhanced performance within the multilateral trading system, but this was short-lived as the emergence of new trading powers hostile to the EU's agenda in the late 1990s resulted in the erosion of its ambitious agenda in the Doha Development Round. © 2011 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
• 'Of Executive Preferences and Societal Constraints: The Domestic Politics of the Transatlantic GMO Dispute
     In: Review of International Political Economy [Peer Reviewed]

  2011
• ‘Perspectives on the Changing Global Distribution of Power: Concepts and Context,’
     In: POLITICS

  2010
• ‘Complying with Unwelcome Rules? Developing Countries and the TRIPs Agreement,’
     In: Indian Journal of International Law [Peer Reviewed]

  2009
• ‘Confounding Conventional Wisdom: Political not Principled Differences in the Transatlantic Regulatory Relationship,’
     In: The British Journal of Politics and International Relations [Peer Reviewed]

  2009
• ‘Editorial: The EU in 2007: Development without Drama, Progress without Passion,’
     In: JCMS Annual Review of the European Union 2007

  2008
• Trade Politics Ain’t What It Used to Be: The European Union in the Doha Round,
     In: Journal of Common Market Studies [Peer Reviewed]

  2007
• ‘Editorial: 2006 A Quiet Year?’
     In: JCMS Annual Review of the European Union in 2006

  2007
• ‘Editorial: Crisis, What Crisis? Continuity and Normality in the EU in 2005’
     In: The JCMS Annual Review of the European Union in 2005

  2006
• ‘The EU and the New Trade Politics,’
     In: Journal of European Public Policy [Peer Reviewed]

  2006
• ‘Picking the Wrong Fight: Why Attacks on the World Trade Organization Pose the Real Threat to Environmental and Public Health Protection,
     In: Global Environmental Politics [Peer Reviewed]

  2005
• ‘The Incidental Fortress: The Single European Market and World Trade’
     In: Journal of Common Market Studies [Peer Reviewed]

  June 2004
• ‘Political Transfer and “Trading Up”: Transatlantic Trade in Genetically Modified Food and US Politics,’
     In: World Politics [Peer Reviewed]

  2003
• ‘The Adaptation of European Foreign Economic Policy: From Rome to Seattle,’ Jour
     In: Journal of Common Market Studies [Peer Reviewed]

  March 2000

Chapters

• National Aims and Adaptation: Lessons from the Market
     In: Foreign Policies of EU Member States: Continuity and Europeanisation [Peer Reviewed]

  June 2017
• Trade
     In: Sage Handbook of European Foreign Policy

  July 2015
• An Overview
     In: Policy-Making in the European Union, 7th edn

  2015
• Policy-Making in a Time of Crisis: Trends and Challenges
     In: Policy-Making in the European Union, 7th edn

  2015
• The European Policy Process in Comparative Perspective
     In: Policy-Making in the European Union, 7th edn

  2015
• The Single Market: From Stagnation to Renewal?
     In: Policy-Making in the European Union, 7th edn

  2015
• ‘Less Than You Might Think: The Impact of WTO Rules on EU Policies’
     In: The Influence of International Institutions on the EU: When Multilateralism Hits Brussels [Peer Reviewed]

  2012
• ‘Effective Multilateralism on Trial: EU Compliance with WTO Law,’
     In: The EU’s Presence in International Organisations

  2010
• ‘The Single Market: Deregulation, reregulation and integration,’
     In: Policy-Making in the European Union, 6th edn

  2010
• ‘Transatlantic Intransigence in the Doha Round: Domestic Politics and the Difficulty of Compromise’
     In: Breaking Deadlocks in Multilateral Settings: An Interdisciplinary Perspective [Peer Reviewed]

  2010
• External Economic Relations
     In: European Politics

  2007
• Trade and Transatlantic Relations
     In: Making History: European Integration and Institutional Change at Fifty: The State of the European Union Volume 8

  2007
• ‘Negotiating with Diminished Expectations: The European Union and the Doha Development Agenda,’
     In: The WTO after Hong Kong: Progress in, and Prospects for, the Doha Development Agenda [Peer Reviewed]

  2007
• ‘The Politics of Regulation and the Internal Market’
     In: Handbook of European Union Politics

  2007
• Protection or Protectionism? EU Food Safety Rules and the WTO’
     In: What's the Beef? The Contested Governance of European Food Safety [Peer Reviewed]

  2006
• ‘Punching Its Weight? The European Union’s Use of WTO Dispute Resolution’
     In: The European Union’s Roles in International Politics: Concepts and Analysis [Peer Reviewed]

  2006
• The European Policy Process in Comparative Perspective
     In: Policy-Making in the European Union, 6th edn

  2005
• The Single European Market: New Approach to Policy
     In: Policy-Making in the European Union, 6th edn

  2005
• ‘EU Interest Representation or US-Style Lobbying?’
     In: The State of the European Union, Volume 7: With US or Against US? European Trends in American Perspective

  2005
• ‘The Single Market: A New Approach to Policy’
     In: Policy-Making in the European Union, 5th edn.

  2005
• The EU and World Trade: Doha and Beyond
     In: Developments in the European Union, 2nd edn.

  2004
• ‘What Game? By Which Rules? Adaptation and Flexibility in the EU’s Foreign Economic Policy,’
     In: Understanding the EU’s External Relations

  2003
• Liberalizing and Reregulating Telecommunications in Europe: A Common Framework and Persistent Differences
     In: Trade, Investment and Competition Policies in the Global Economy: The Case of the International Telecommunications Regime

  2002
• ‘European Lessons for Multilateral Economic Integration: A Cautionary Tale,’
     In: Globalization Under Threat: The Stability of Trade Policy and International Agreements

  2001
• Regulatory Convergence Between the European Union and Central and Eastern Europe’
     In: Towards Rival Regionalism? US and EU Regional Regulatory Regime Building

  1998
• ‘European Consumer Groups: Multiple Levels of Governance and Multiple Logics of Collective Action’
     In: Collective Action in the European Union: Interests and the New Politics of Associability [Peer Reviewed]

  1998
• The Kaleidoscope of European Policy-Making: Shifting Patterns of Participation and Influence
     In: Participation and Policy-Making in the European Union [Peer Reviewed]

  1997
• ‘Consumers in the Single Market: Consumption without Representation?’
     In: Participation and Policy-Making in the European Union [Peer Reviewed]

  1997
• The Single Market: A New Approach to Policy’
     In: Policy-Making in the European Union, 3rd edn.

  1996
• ‘Ideas, Interests and Institutions: The Politics of Liberalisation in the EC's Road Haulage Industry’
     In: The Evolution of Rules for a Single European Market, Part I: Industry and Finance

  1995