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Vol. 37 (2017)
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The Rule of Law Promotion Through Trade in the „Associated" Eastern Neighbourhood

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  • Maryna Rabinovych
Maryna Rabinovych
Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University
okładka

Published 2017-12-31

Keywords

  • value promotion,
  • Deep and Comprehensive Free trade Agreement,
  • approximation,
  • Association Agreement,
  • rule of law

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The Rule of Law Promotion Through Trade in the „Associated" Eastern Neighbourhood. (2017). Polish Yearbook of International Law, 37, 71-100. https://doi.org/10.7420/pyil2017c

Abstract

This article aims to investigate the phenomenon of the rule of law promotion exercised by the EU through the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements (DCFTAs). First, the article emphasizes the unique combination of normative and market power the EU uses to diffuse its norms through trade liberalization. Next, it provides an insight into the particularities of the European Neighbourhood Policy as a policy context for the conclusion and implementation of the Association Agreements, including the DCFTAs with Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, as well as the conceptual problematic and scope of the rule of law as a value the EU seeks to externalize. Using the DCFTAs with Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia) as a single group case study of the transparency dimension of the rule of law, the central part of the article analyzes the DCFTAs substantive requirements, directed toward promoting transparency in the partner states (while categorizing the requirements into the most general ones; cooperation­related; and discipline­specifc) and the legal mechanisms that make these clauses operational (e.g., the institutional framework of the AAs, gradual approximation and monitoring clauses, and the Dispute Settlement Mechanism). In concluding, the article summarizes the state­of­the­art of the rule of law promotion through the DCFTAs, distinguishes the major challenges the respective phenomenonfaces, and emphasizes the prospects for and difculties of using the DCFTAs as an instrument of rule of law promotion.

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