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Peg Murray - Evans

Contact Details

pme503@york.ac.uk

Qualifications

  • MA Research Methods in Politics and International Relations (University of Sheffield), 2009-10
  • BA (Hons) Politics and International Relations (University of Sheffield), 2005-08

Research Interests

Thesis title

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? 

Areas of interest

  • trade and development politics
  • EU trade and development policy
  • regional integration
  • Southern African regionalism
  • constructivist institutionalism
  • constructivist IPE

Selected conference papers

(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.

Departmental activity

Seminar tutor Introduction to International Politics (first year)

PGR representative on the Graduate Research Committee

Research Assistant work

  • Research assistant for Dr Tony Heron, University of Sheffield: literature review and report on the Economic Partnership Agreements and regional integration in the Pacific, July-August 2011.
  • Research assistant for Dr Tony Heron, University of Sheffield: Literature searching and updating module outline for MA course on United States Hegemony, March-April 2010.

Awards

• Second place in the Political Studies Association Women and Politics Undergraduate Essay Prize, 2008