EU Regional Trade Agreements: An Instrument of Promoting the Rule of Law to Third States

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Acknowledgements
Preface
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1 The concept of the rule of law in the EU external action
2 EU external economic policy: history and the legal basis
3 The interplay between trade liberalization and the rule of law in the development context: towards the concept of EU value-promoting Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs)
4 EU rule of law promotion through RTAs in third states: the “regulation” dimension
5 EU rule of law promotion through RTAs in third states: the “action” dimension
6 Coherence between the “regulation” and “action” dimensions of rule of law promotion through RTAs (internal coherence)
7 Coherence between the rule of law promotion through RTAs and EU broader rule of law promotion activities (external coherence): the case of justice sector reforms
8 The EU-Ukraine DCFTA as an instrument of promoting the rule of law: conflict, unique approaches to assistance and unexpected spillovers
Outlook and recommendations
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