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Aasim Sheikh

Research

Title of Research:

Fair-Trade in Global Production through EU institutions: Evaluating Social Movement Organisation Strategies

Brief overview of research topic:

During my PhD, I seek to understand how trade justice social movement organisations promote global agendas of ethical trade through supra-national Institutions such as the EU. Furthermore, I aim to analyse the strategic environment, strategies, and tactics of these organisations. Finally, I evaluate the justifications of these strategies by deriving narratives from organisational leaders surrounding the impact of these strategies.

To understand this, I use qualitative methods to analyse the strategies of Non-Governmental Organisations of the Fair-Trade Movement seeking to promote their transnational agendas by influencing European Union policy-making. My research brings together literature on Social Movements, Global Production Networks, Fair-Trade, European Union Politics, Comparative Lobbying, and Strategic Planning to illustrate this analysis.

Qualifications

i-LLM/LPC Professional Legal Practice from the University of Law

MPA Public Administration in International Development from the University of York

LLB (Hons.) Law from the University of Bristol

 

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Aasim is supervised by Dr Jappe Eckhardt & Dr Tom O'Brien

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