@article{1444280, recid = {1444280}, author = {Adriaensen, Johan, and Postnikov, Evgeny,}, title = {A geo-economic turn in trade policy? : EU trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific /}, pages = {1 online resource :}, note = {Includes index.}, abstract = {Contemporary trade policy is increasingly framed in geo-strategic terms. But how much of that rhetoric is reflected in actual policy choices by the European Union or its trading partners? This book provides the first systematic study of the broader international context in which EU trade agreements are conceived, negotiated, and designed. Building on a refined conceptualisation of geo-economics, the book develops a cogent framework that combines insights from scholarship on the design of free trade agreements with ideas from foreign policy analysis. Empirically, the analysis focuses on the relations between the EU and the Asia-Pacific. Johan Adriaensen is Assistant Professor at Maastricht University, Netherlands. His research focuses on institutional politics and EU trade policy. He is the author of National Administrations in EU Trade Policy (2016). Evgeny Postnikov is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has published on trade and sustainable development in leading journals and is author of Social Standards in EU and US Trade Agreements (2020).}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1444280}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81281-2}, }