Qualified market access and inter-disciplinarity

  • This note offers reflections on qualified market access (QMA) - the practice of linking trade agreements to values such as human rights, labour standards, or environmental protection. This idea has been suggested by political theorists as a way of fulfilling our duties to the global poor and of making the global economic system more just, and it has influenced a number of concrete policies, such as European Union (EU) trade policies. Yet, in order to assess its merits tout court, different perspectives and disciplines need to be brought together, such as international law, economics, political science, and philosophy. It is also worth reflecting on existing practices, such as those of the EU. This note summarises some insights about QMA by drawing such research together and considers the areas in which further research is needed, whilst reflecting also on the merits of interdisciplinary exchanges on such topics.

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Author:Lisa Herzog, Andrew Walton
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-361226
DOI:https://doi.org/10.3402/egp.v7.24507
ISSN:1654-6369
ISSN:1654-4951
Parent Title (German):Ethics & global politics
Publisher:Co-Action Publishing
Place of publication:Häggeby [u.a.]
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2014/05/28
Date of first Publication:2014/05/28
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2014/12/17
Tag:World Trade Organization; generalised system of preferences; human rights; inter-disciplinarity; labour standards; qualified market access; trade justice
Volume:7
Issue:2
Page Number:12
First Page:83
Last Page:94
Note:
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.
HeBIS-PPN:367207583
Institutes:Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Exzellenzcluster / Exzellenzcluster Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0