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John Peterson and Alasdair Young do a masterful job of exposing the secret ingredients of Europes trade policy sausage a fascinating blend of commercial interests, reciprocal bargaining and foreign objectives come together as the European Union uses its considerable heft to shape global policy. Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Reginald Jones Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington DC Parochial Global Europe captures, in both title and content, the practice of trade policy and politics in the worlds largest market and trader. By highlighting the policy sub-systems that shape diverse trade actions across the European continent, Peterson and Young bring new understanding to scholars and practitioners alike. We are very much in their debt. I.M. Destler, Saul I. Stern Professor of Civic Engagement, University of Maryland

John Peterson and Alasdair Young do a masterful job of exposing the secret ingredients of Europes trade policy sausage a fascinating blend of commercial interests, reciprocal bargaining and foreign objectives come together as the European Union uses its considerable heft to shape global policy. * Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Reginald Jones Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington DC * Parochial Global Europe captures, in both title and content, the practice of trade policy and politics in the worlds largest market and trader. By highlighting the policy sub-systems that shape diverse trade actions across the European continent, Peterson and Young bring new understanding to scholars and practitioners alike. We are very much in their debt. * I.M. Destler, Saul I. Stern Professor of Civic Engagement, University of Maryland *

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Alasdair Young is co-director of the Center for European and Transatlantic Studies. He is vice-chair of the European Union Studies Association (2013-15). Before joining Georgia Tech he taught at the University of Glasgow for 10 years and held research posts at the European University Institute and the University of Sussex. He has written two previous books and edited seven others, including the forthcoming seventh edition of Policy-Making in the European Union, with Mark Pollack and Helen Wallace. He has published and a dozen articles -- including in Global Environmental Politics, the Journal of Common Market Studies, the Journal of European Public Policy, the Review of International Political Economy, and World Politics -- and written 30 book chapters. He is Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. John Peterson has authored or edited 18 books, including Multilateralism in the 21st Century (2013, with Caroline Bouchard and Nathalie Tocci), The European Commission of the 21st Century (2013, with an international research team), The Institutions of the European Union (2012, with Michael Shackleton) and The European Union: How Does it Work? (with Elizabeth Bomberg and Richard Corbett). He is a former editor of the Journal of Common Market Studies and previously held posts at the Universities of Glasgow, York, Essex, Oxford, California and the College of Europe, Bruges. He is Professor of International Politics at the University of Edinburgh.

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