Trading Voices: The European Union in International Commercial Negotiations Paperback - 2007

First line

Europe's external trade policy has been perhaps the finest advertisement for the pooling of national sovereignty since the European Community came into being.

From the rear cover

"This impressive book offers the first authoritative study of the trade policy of the European Union--the world's largest trading block. Trade policy represents a key example of the European Union as a complex bundling of supranational and intergovernmental features. This book offers an excellent balance between theoretical argument and explanation of how the European Union's trade policy works--an essential though highly understudied area of European Union policy-making. It will appeal to those interested in trade policy, the European Union, and the development of international organizations."--Pascal Lamy, Former European Union Trade Commissioner

"Trading Voices is the most theoretically sophisticated, wide-ranging, and compelling book yet on the development of the European Union as a global trading power. It will be useful for scholars and students of the EU and trade policy, as well as government officials on both sides of the Atlantic."--John T. S. Keeler, University of Washington, author of The Politics of Neocorporatism in France

"Trading Voices marks a real contribution to scholarship on the European Union, the international politics of trade, international political economy, and theories of negotiation. Very well written and accessible, it is a theoretically sophisticated, well researched, important piece of work."--Alberta Sbragia, University of Pittsburgh, author of Debt Wish: Entrepreneurial Cities, U.S. Federalism, and Economic Development