Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Relevance of EBA for Europe’s Trade and Development Policies 2. The Development of EBA 3. The North-South Dimension within the European Union: Conflicts over EBA 4. Bureaucratic Competition in EU Trade Policy: EBA as a Case of Competing Two-level Games 5. The Political Dynamics behind US and EU Trade Initiatives Towards the Least-developed Countries 6. Unilateral Trade Preferences of the US and the EU: Their Effectiveness for Sub-Saharan Exports and the Role of Geography and Institutions 7. Unilateral Trade Preferences of the US and the EU: Their Effectiveness and the Role of the Rules of Origin in the Apparel Sector 8. Symbolic and Effective?: An LDC Perspective on Duty- and Quota Free Market Access 9. The Significance of the EBA Scheme for CAP Reform 10. X EBA and the EU Sugar Market: Development Gift or Trojan Horse? 11. EU-ACP Negotiations on Regional Partnership Agreements and EBA 12. Normative Power Europe?: EBA, Economic Partnership Agreements and Benevolent Self-images. Conclusion: All About Nothing?

About the Author

Gerrit Faber is Associate Professor of International Economics at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

Jan Orbie is Assistant Professor in EU Politics at Ghent University, Belgium.