• A
  • A
  • A
  • ABC
  • ABC
  • ABC
  • А
  • А
  • А
  • А
  • А
Regular version of the site
For visually-impairedFor visually-impairedUser profile (HSE staff only)Search
Advanced search
Menu
HSE University
  • HSE University
  • Student Theses
  • Business Interest Representatives Lobbying on behalf of Multinational Companies to Influence the European Union Trade Policy: the CETA (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) Case

Business Interest Representatives Lobbying on behalf of Multinational Companies to Influence the European Union Trade Policy: the CETA (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) Case

Student: Kersuzan Vincent marie joseph

Supervisor: Ekaterina Entina

Faculty: Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs

Educational Programme: International Business (Master)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2017

This thesis overviewed and analyzed the influence of private interests over the public powers decision making, in particular the influence of multinational companies on the European Union Trade Policy through business interest representatives. The goal was to understand the influence of multinational companies over the EU Trade Policy and their medium to succeed, and why it has been so controversial lately. The thesis findings highlight a will of the multinational companies to change the EU trade policy paradigm, through business interest representatives’ activities. But the future of the new generation of trade agreements and the CETA in particular is all but not sure, and the activities of the groups of interests will be even more scrutinized in the future.

Full text (added May 12, 2017)

Student Theses at HSE must be completed in accordance with the University Rules and regulations specified by each educational programme.

Summaries of all theses must be published and made freely available on the HSE website.

The full text of a thesis can be published in open access on the HSE website only if the authoring student (copyright holder) agrees, or, if the thesis was written by a team of students, if all the co-authors (copyright holders) agree. After a thesis is published on the HSE website, it obtains the status of an online publication.

Student theses are objects of copyright and their use is subject to limitations in accordance with the Russian Federation’s law on intellectual property.

In the event that a thesis is quoted or otherwise used, reference to the author’s name and the source of quotation is required.

Search all student theses