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Research Workshop: “Reacting to the Contestation of Trade Policy in the Transatlantic Area”
November 29, 2021 — November 30, 2021
| Location: | University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium |
| Cost: | Free |
This research workshop, “Reacting to the Contestation of Trade Policy in the Transatlantic Area”, organized and hosted at the University of Antwerp, brings together Canadian and European scholars to assess and discuss the recent politicization of trade policy in transatlantic relations and across the world. By politicization, we mean the increasing public salience and public contestation of trade policy.
The major questions to discuss in this workshop are: Why do we see this politicization? What explains variation in the extent to which specific trade negotiations embarked upon by the EU and other trading powers are politicized, and others are not? Who are the actors driving politicization? What can account for differentiated politicization across EU member states? What can account for differences across trade agreement negotiations? What can account for variation in degrees and types of politicization and contestation of trade agreements in different trading entities across the world? And what are the consequences of this politicization for trade policy outcomes?
The workshop is organized by Dirk De Bièvre (University of Antwerp) Andreas Dür (University of Salzburg) and Scott Hamilton (University of Antwerp) and coordinated with Achim Hurrelmann (Carleton University).
Draft agenda (as of November 22):
Monday, November 29
1:00 – 3:00PM Panel 1
“Trade policy contestation and the European Parliament: Taking stock of evolving MEP voting behaviour (2004-2019)”
J. Robert Basedow, London School of Economics
Julian Hoerner, London School of Economics
Discussants: Arlo Poletti, Anna Vlasiuk Nibe
“EU trade politics in the European Parliament after politicization”
Ferdi De Ville, Ghent University
Niels Gheyle, UCLouvain
Discussants: Shawn Donnelly, Aukje van Loon
“Explaining national governments’ responses to public contestation in the CETA ratification process: Institutional arenas, policy-making coalitions, and discourse”
Achim Hurrelmann, Carleton University
Frank Wendler, University of Hamburg
Discussants: Jonathan Polk, Christian Freudlsperger
3:20 – 5:20PM Panel 2
“Pivoting and Retooling: Canadian Responses to Contestation in the EU and US”
Patricia Goff, Laurier University
Discussants: Andreas Dür, Guri Rosén
“Interest Group Responses to EU Trade Contestation”
Aukje van Loon, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Discussants: Dirk De Bièvre, Floor Doppen
“Putting on the Ritz? Testing issue salience as a driver of civil society contestation in EU trade policy” Scott Hamilton, University of Antwerp
Discussants: Sophie Meunier, J. Robert Basedow
Tuesday, November 30
9:00 – 11:00AM Panel 3
“The reaction of political parties to the contestation of trade policy in Europe and the United States” Shawn Donnelly, University of Twente
Discussants: Ferdi De Ville, Julian Hoerner
“Who’s afraid of trade? Politicization and protectionism in European party politics”
Guri Rosén, OsloMet
Jonathan Polk, Copenhagen University
Discussants: Niels Gheyle, Stéphane Paquin
“The European Commission and Foreign Investment Screening in Europe”
Sophie Meunier, Princeton University
Christilla Roederer-Rynning, University of Southern Denmark
Anna Vlasiuk Nibe, University of Southern Denmark
Discussants: Andreas Dür, Jörg Broschek
11:20AM – 12:40PM Panel 4
“The impact of public contestation on regional actors’ involvement in EU trade policy”
Jörg Broschek, Wilfred Laurier University
Christian Freudlsperger, Hertie School
Discussants: Achim Hurrelmann, Scott Hamilton
“Subnational mobilization and trade negotiations: inclusion or exclusion?”
Stéphane Paquin, École nationale d’administration publique
Discussants: Patricia Goff, Frank Wendler
This workshop is co-organized by project partners at University of Antwerp, the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg and Carleton University. This event is hosted as an activity of the Jean Monnet Network on Transatlantic Trade Politics, with the support of the Erasmus + Programme of the European Union, by Carleton University, and Jean Monnet Network partner universities University of Antwerp (Belgium), Bates College (Maine, USA), Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (Austria) and University of Warwick (UK).