The study commissioned by UNESCO seeks to evaluate whether the CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) ten years into its implementation, has made a substantial and measurable impact on cultural trade relations between the CARIFORUM States and the European Union (EU) and whether...

Can small "weak" countries shape the outcomes of asymmetric trade negotiations and, if so, how? I scrutinise ten episodes of trade negotiations involving powerful European states and small developing countries from Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) since the 1960s. I draw on legal...

This book critically engages with a long tradition of scholarly work that conceives of the European Union as a peculiar international actor that pursues a value-based, normatively oriented and development-friendly agenda in its relations with international partners. The EU is a pivotal player in...