ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 provides an overview of the European Union’s partner regions in the industrialized and developing world, thereby covering Africa, Asia, the Gulf region, Latin America, and North America. More specifically, it presents a comprehensive overview of the European Union’s trade policy towards regional organizations in these world regions, and identifies the empirical need to analyze the influence of international factors in order to better understand trade relations between Europe and its partners. Making advances in this direction, Chapter 5 reviews the European Union’s external trade relations towards South Africa as a member of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), with the members of the Andean Community (CAN), and with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). These are all cases where the European Union swung between interregionalism and bilateralism.
