The EU’s Changing Role Performance in the WTO’s Doha Round

Abstract

In this second of two empirical chapters assessing the EU’s response to multipolarity, focus turns to the EU’s role performance within the WTO’s Doha Round. Offering an important longitudinal analysis detailing developments over time, this chapter considers the EU’s negotiation behaviour and activities towards negotiation partners and how its output has changed. It shows that the EU has played multiple roles within the WTO’s Doha Round but with a clear trend; moving from principally proactive and reformist roles to a more reactive role-set over the course of the round’s negotiation history.