Incidents along the Path: Understanding the Rationale behind the EU-Chile Association Agreement

Abstract:

Relying on process-tracing, this article shows how changing institutional settings help to explain the unexpected decision for the European Union to negotiate its most extensive Association with Chile, and reveals the explanatory power of historical-institutionalist approaches as an optimum framework for the understanding of seemingly inconsistent policy decisions.

ESO: Key Source: Relations between Chile and the European Union http://www.europeansources.info/record/relations-between-chile-and-the-european-union/

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