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The EU, World Trade Law and the Right to Food - Rethinking Free Trade Agreements with Developing Countries (Hardcover)
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The EU, World Trade Law and the Right to Food - Rethinking Free Trade Agreements with Developing Countries (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in International Trade and Investment Law
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In recent years the European Union has developed a comprehensive
strategy to conclude free trade agreements which includes not only
prominent trade partners such as Canada, the United States and
Japan but also numerous developing countries. This book looks at
the existing WTO law and at the new EU free trade agreements with
the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa through the lens of the human
right to adequate food. It shows how the clauses on the import and
export of food included in recent free trade agreements limit the
capacity of these countries to implement food security policies and
to respect their human rights obligations. This outcome appears to
be at odds with international human rights law and dismissive of
existing human rights references in EU-founding treaties as well as
in treaties between the EU and developing states. Yet, the book
argues against the conception in human rights literature that there
is an inflexible agenda encoded in world trade law which is
fundamentally conflictual with non-economic interests. The book
puts forward the idea that the European Union is perfectly placed
to develop a narrative of globalisation considering other areas of
public international law when negotiating trade agreements and
argues that the EU does have the competences and influence to
uphold a role of international leadership in designing a
sustainable global trading system. Will the EU be ambitious enough?
A timely contribution to the growing academic literature on the
relation between world trade law and international human rights
law, this book imagines a central role for the EU in reconciling
these two areas of international law.
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