Heron, Tony orcid.org/0000-0002-1237-2624 and Murray-Evans, Peg orcid.org/0000-0001-7961-220X (2017) Regional Encounters:Explaining the Divergent Responses to the EU's Support for Regional Integration in Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific. Third World Thematics. pp. 470-489. ISSN 2380-2014
Abstract
In this article, we map and explain the unevenness of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) responses to the EU’s external promotion of regional integration in the context of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). Although the controversies associated with the EPAs are typically attributed to a common set of problems, what remains to be fully explained is why these manifested themselves to a greater or lesser extent in different national and regional contexts. We account for this variance as a product of the degree of congruence between the institutional trajectory of individual regional projects and the model of economic integration prescribed by the EU in its post-Lomé prospectus for the ACP. We describe this congruence as either ‘high’, ‘medium’ or ‘low’ and use this explanatory model to account for variances in ACP responses to the EPAs, which would otherwise provide an untidy fit with accounts preoccupied with the economic determinants of bargaining outcomes.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 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 |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Politics (York) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number AHRC UNSPECIFIED |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 16 May 2017 15:00 |
Last Modified: | 21 Jan 2025 17:24 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/23802014.2016.1281089 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/23802014.2016.1281089 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:116563 |
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