Forging a geopolitical union : the EU's assertive trade policy and the anti-coercion instrument

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dc.contributor.authorSCHAUPP, Lukas Sebastian
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-04T10:17:08Z
dc.date.available2025-07-04T10:17:08Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.descriptionPublished online: 02 July 2025
dc.description.abstractThis chapter examines Regulation 2023/2675, known as the Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI), within the broader context of the European Union’s (EU) evolving trade policy and geopolitical aspirations. The ACI constitutes a departure from the EU’s traditional emphasis on facilitating trade towards a more assertive defence mechanism against economic coercion by third countries. Through an analysis of the regulatory design by means of a regulatory theory framework, the chapter evaluates the effectiveness of the ACI in deterring and countering economic coercion. Despite the ambition to project greater geopolitical clout, this contribution finds that Member States retain ultimate control over exerting geopolitical leverage, indicating a rather limited commitment to elevating the supranational EU into a self-standing actor. The paper suggests that while the ACI enhances the EU’s collective potential to act assertively, it does so by acting as a vehicle for the Member States to exert power through collaboration at the European level. The EU’s ability to enforce rules vis-à-vis third countries by using the ACI consequently depends on multi-level decision-making, and particularly on finding consensus between the actors involved. The ability to do so will in turn determine the instrument’s potential to help the Union develop into a more assertive geopolitical actor.
dc.identifier.citationMarek NEUMAN, Ramses A. WESSEL and Thijs DE ZEE (eds), A geopolitical Europe in the making? : the EU's actorness in a (de-)globalising world, The Hague : Springer, 2025, Global Europe : legal and policy issues of the EU's external action ; 5, pp. 147-164
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-94-6265-666-6_8
dc.identifier.isbn9789462656697
dc.identifier.isbn9789462656666
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/92972
dc.language.isoen
dc.orcid.putcode1814/80499:187277529
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.subjectAnti-coercion Instrument
dc.subjectTrade policy
dc.subjectEconomic coercion
dc.subjectSecurity
dc.subjectRegulatory theory
dc.titleForging a geopolitical union : the EU's assertive trade policy and the anti-coercion instrument
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