Ideas on Europe | The Common Agricultural Policy as Foreign Policy: Future of EU External Relations?

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Laura Gelhaus (University of Warwick) discusses her PhD research, which examines the Common Agricultural Policy as foreign policy, posing the question of whether this is the future of EU external relations. Interviewer: Carlos Bravo-Laguna (Institut Barcelona d' Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) / Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) * * * Laura's reading recommendations: 1. For those that would like to learn more about the LEADER Programme: Granberg, L., K. Andersson, and I. Kovách, eds. 2016. Evaluating the European approach to rural development: grass-roots experiences of the LEADER programme. London ; New York: Routledge. 2. For those interested in EU foreign policy, White continues to be a central reading: White, B. 2001. Understanding European foreign policy. London: Macmillan. 3. For those interested in the CAP, the best and especially up-to-date literature is in article form, but this one can get you up to speed on the important reforms of the 1990s and 2000s: Cunha, A. and A. Swinbank. 2011. An inside view of the CAP reform process: explaining the MacSharry, Agenda 2000, and Fischler reforms. Oxford: Oxford University Press * * * Recorded at the UACES Graduate Forum Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), July 2019 (www.uaces.org/gf19 | twitter.com/hashtag/uacesgf19). Note: This event was supported by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. UACES and the European Commission do not take responsibility for opinions expressed in this recording. All opinions are those of the contributors. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music credit: David Szesztay 'Coffee Shop' (bit.ly/2Mkp0yh) #Europe #EU #EuropeanUnion #UACES #IdeasonEurope