Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
3-2016
Abstract
This article investigates the relationship between the European Union's withdrawal of trade benefits for developing countries under the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) and its sanctions under the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). Our expectation is that GSP withdrawals and CFSP sanctions will not cohere. However, our research reveals that GSP suspension has been coherent with CFSP sanctions when the latter exist prior to the decision-making process on GSP sanctions and when the International Labour Organisation has set up a Commission of Inquiry condemning the country, as with Myanmar/Burma and Belarus. The presence of separate institutional frameworks explains the GSP suspension towards Sri Lanka in the absence of CFSP sanctions.
Keywords
EU trade, sanctions, development, GSP, Myanmar/Burma, Belarus
Discipline
Growth and Development
Research Areas
Political Science
Publication
The trade-development nexus in the European Union: Differentiation, coherence and norms
Volume
20
Issue
1
First Page
63
Last Page
76
ISBN
9781317596905
Identifier
10.1080/13569775.2014.881605
Publisher
Routledge
City or Country
London
Citation
PORTELA, Clara, & ORBIE, Jan. (2016). Sanctions under the EU Generalised System of Preferences and foreign policy: Coherence by accident?. In The trade-development nexus in the European Union: Differentiation, coherence and norms (pp. 63-76). London: Routledge.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2131
Additional URL
https://doi.org./10.1080/13569775.2014.881605