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Constructing the EU's external economic policy: The use of the Economic Partnership Agreements to promote regional integration in southern Africa
The thesis uses an approach drawn from historical and constructivist institutionalisms to investigate two research questions. First, why has the promotion of regional integration become an increasingly important aim of EU external economic policy since the mid 1990s, and specifically why has it been a key element of the EU’s recasting of its relationship with the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries? Second, in the case of the Economic Partnership Agreements with ACP countries, why has the EU’s strategy for promoting regional integration seemingly foundered?
(2012) The European Union’s Economic Partnership Agreements and regional (dis)integration: the SADC case, The International BISA-ISA Conference, Edinburgh, 20-22 June.
(2012) The European Union’s Economic Partnership Agreements and regional (dis)integration: a constructivist institutionalist approach, The European Union in International Affairs III, Brussels 3-5 May.
with Tony Heron (2011) Constructing regionalism? The EU’s Economic Partnership Agreements and the promotion of regional economic integration in the Pacific’, Beyond the Economic Partnership Agreements: EU-African, Caribbean and Pacific relations and the post-crisis trade and development agenda, Sheffield, 13 September.
Seminar tutor Introduction to International Politics (first year)
PGR representative on the Graduate Research Committee
• Second place in the Political Studies Association Women and Politics Undergraduate Essay Prize, 2008