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As discussed earlier, Europe’s social preferences affect the rest of the world in highly variable conditions and proportions. To prohibit importation of beef with hormones from the United States reflects a relationship with food that Europeans can maintain without seeking to impose it on other societies. In the latter can reasonably make do with this. Such preferences shall thus be called defensive social preferences.
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Laïdi, Z. (2008). European Governance and American Sovereignism. In: Norms over Force. The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230614062_5
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