National Administrations in EU Trade Policy

Abstract

The series maps the range of disciplines addressing the study of European public administration. In particular, contributions to the series will engage with the role and nature of the evolving bureaucratic processes of the European Union, including the study of the EU's civil service, of organization aspects of individual institutions such as the European Commission, the Council of Ministers, the External Action Service, the European Parliament, the European Court and the European Central Bank and of inter-institutional relations among these and other actors. The series also welcomes contributions on the growing role of EU agencies, networks of technical experts and national offi cials, and of the administrative dimension of multilevel governance including international organizations. Of particular interest in this respect will be the emergence of a European diplomatic service and the management of the EU's expanding commercial, foreign, development, security and defence policies, as well as the role of institutions in a range of other policy areas of the Union.Beyond this strong focus of EU administrative governance, the series will also include texts on the development and practice of administrative governance within European states. This may include contributions to the administrative history of Europe, which is not just about rules and regulations governing bureaucracies, or about formal criteria for measuring the growth of bureaucracies, but rather about the concrete workings of public administration, both in its executive functions as in its involvement in policy-making. Furthermore the series will include studies on the interaction between the national and European level, with particular attention for the impact of the EU on domestic administrative systems.More information about this series at

Agents as Information Asymmetry Managers in EU Trade Policy-Making

“…These purposes are not very different from those of the TPC (Adriaensen 2016;Johnson 1998). ITMs have indeed taken over several functions from the TPC, an evolution that has coincided with two big changes in the EU (trade policy) system.…”

The Ideational Power of Strategic Autonomy in EU Security and External Economic Policies

“…The Ideational Power of Strategic Autonomy staff in the more than 140 EU delegations. Its officials are well reputed for their extensive legal and regulatory expertise (Adriaensen, 2016).…”

Implementation of EU Trade Agreements Under an Assertive, Open, and Sustainable Trade Policy

“…Focusing on the implementation of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) is especially relevant as the extensive literature on EU trade agreements has explained the rationale for PTAs (Dür, 2007(Dür, , 2008Eckhardt & Poletti, 2016;Garcia, 2013;Siles-Brügge, 2014) outcomes of negotiations (Adriaensen, 2016;Heldt, 2021), the politicisation of PTAs and trade policy (De Bièvre et al, 2020;De Ville & Siles-Brügge, 2015;Duina, 2019;Eliasson & Garcia-Duran Huet, 2018;Gheyle, 2020;Young, 2019), but with the exception of work unpacking the limitations of the trade and sustainable development (TSD) chapters in PTAs (Campling et al, 2016;Drieghe et al, 2022;Marx & Brando, 2016;Orbie et al, 2016Orbie et al, , 2017Potjomkina et al, 2020) has paid little attention to how well PTAs are implemented and what happens post-negotiations. Yet, the implementation of PTAs is less straightforward than envisaged.…”