“Expanding Authority: The European Union and Extraterritorial Competition Policy”

Damro, Chad. (1999) “Expanding Authority: The European Union and Extraterritorial Competition Policy”. In European Union Studies Association (EUSA) > Biennial Conference > 1999 (6th), June 2-5, 1999, pages 32, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Abstract

In this paper, I will focus on a relatively new supranational policy area-ECP-through which the EU is expanding its authority and significantly contributing to its presence as an international actor. The first section of the paper provides a brief discussion of the EU’s institutional capacity and legal foundation for exercising ECP. Second, I briefly comment on the EU’s somewhat ambiguous international identity. Next, I provide an empirical discussion of the BMD case, highlighting those aspects of particular importance for the current study. Fourth, assessing the outcome of the BMD case, I address the implications of the EU’s newly established authority for the international political economy. In the fifth section, I assess the EU’s response to the destabilizing effects of ECP. In the final section, I summarize the findings.