Curran, Louise and Eckhardt, Jappe orcid.org/0000-0002-8823-0905 (2017) Smoke screen?:The globalization of production, transnational lobbying and the international political economy of plain tobacco packaging. REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY. pp. 87-118. ISSN 0969-2290
Abstract
In 2012, Australia became the first country in the world to introduce plain tobacco packaging in an effort to reduce tobacco consumption. This move was vehemently opposed by the tobacco industry, which challenged it on several levels: nationally, bilaterally and multilaterally at the World Trade Organization (WTO). The political behaviour of the tobacco companies in this case is puzzling both in terms of scale, operating at multiple levels at the same time, and in terms of the countries mobilized in their defence. WTO litigation is typically the result of multinational enterprises (MNEs) lobbying their own government, but here third countries were mobilized. Lobbying in third country contexts, with the objective of accessing multilateral dispute settlement systems, has been little studied. We thus know very little about the driving factors behind such activities, how target governments are selected and what lobbying strategies are used. This article draws on emerging research on transnational lobbying and a case study of the plain packaging case to explore these issues in detail and, by doing so, aims to further our theoretical understanding of the political economy of international trade in the context of increasing regime complexity and globalization of production. In addition, the article sheds new light on advocacy in the context of disputes about cross-border challenges to domestic regulation.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
Keywords: | World Trade Organization,global value chains,international trade,lobbying,regime complexity,tobacco control |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Politics (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 05 Jan 2017 13:42 |
Last Modified: | 29 Mar 2025 00:06 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2016.1269658 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/09692290.2016.1269658 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:110151 |
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