Emily Jones
Emily Jones is deputy director of the Global Economic Governance (GEG) Programme, University of Oxford. She holds a research fellowship at University College and is a Research Associate at the Blavatnik School of Government. Emily oversees GEG’s research and coordinates the Global Leadership Fellows Programme. Her research examines asymmetric negotiations in international political economy, with a focus on trade.
Emily has worked at GEG since 2008. Prior to this, she worked in Ghana's Ministry of Trade and Industry (as an ODI fellow and then a consultant), as a policy adviser for Oxfam GB, and for the UK Department for International Development in Brazil. She has undertaken many consultancy projects, including for the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Institute for Public Policy Research, the German Marshall Fund, and Oxfam International.
Emily is the author of ‘Negotiating Against the Odds: A Guide for Trade Negotiators from Developing Countries’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and co-author of ‘Manoeuvring at the Margins: Constraints Faced by Small States in Trade Negotiations’ (Commonwealth Secretariat, 2010). She holds a DPhil in International Political Economy from the University of Oxford and her thesis examined recent trade negotiations between the Europe Union and African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. She gained a distinction in her MSc in Development Economics from the School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London, and holds a first class BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford.
Supervisors: Professor Ngaire Woods
Emily has worked at GEG since 2008. Prior to this, she worked in Ghana's Ministry of Trade and Industry (as an ODI fellow and then a consultant), as a policy adviser for Oxfam GB, and for the UK Department for International Development in Brazil. She has undertaken many consultancy projects, including for the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Institute for Public Policy Research, the German Marshall Fund, and Oxfam International.
Emily is the author of ‘Negotiating Against the Odds: A Guide for Trade Negotiators from Developing Countries’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and co-author of ‘Manoeuvring at the Margins: Constraints Faced by Small States in Trade Negotiations’ (Commonwealth Secretariat, 2010). She holds a DPhil in International Political Economy from the University of Oxford and her thesis examined recent trade negotiations between the Europe Union and African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. She gained a distinction in her MSc in Development Economics from the School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London, and holds a first class BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford.
Supervisors: Professor Ngaire Woods
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Building on existing scholarship, Manoeuvring at the Margins is the first attempt to thoroughly analyse the views of representatives from small states on the constraints they face in this area. The authors, led by Dr Ngaire Woods and Dr Carolyn Deere Birkbeck of the University of Oxford, highlight three areas where small states can maximise their potential influence: establishing an effective negotiating team by strengthening human resources; harnessing the support of civil society and the private sector; and improving negotiation strategies. The recommendations they provide will be useful in assisting trade policy-makers in small states to achieve greater success in WTO and other trade arenas.
A paperback copy can be purchased from the Commonwealth Secretariat:http://publications.thecommonwealth.org/manoeuvring-at-the-margins-782-p.aspx
Despite these differences, however, two messages can be delineated. The first is negative concerns the near universal agreement that EPAs fall short of their developmental potential, that promised improvements have not materialized, regional integration has been largely compromised, and trust has eroded. The second message is positive and it is that actors have not lost hope of turning this situation around, and there is no shortage of creative suggestions as to how the agreements can be improved. The challenge for negotiating parties is to put aside the rocky negotiating process to date, rebuild the trust needed for a true partnership, and with renewed focus, enter into a constructive, realistic, and pragmatic dialogue on how best to update EPAs.
Papers by Emily Jones
Building on existing scholarship, Manoeuvring at the Margins is the first attempt to thoroughly analyse the views of representatives from small states on the constraints they face in this area. The authors, led by Dr Ngaire Woods and Dr Carolyn Deere Birkbeck of the University of Oxford, highlight three areas where small states can maximise their potential influence: establishing an effective negotiating team by strengthening human resources; harnessing the support of civil society and the private sector; and improving negotiation strategies. The recommendations they provide will be useful in assisting trade policy-makers in small states to achieve greater success in WTO and other trade arenas.
A paperback copy can be purchased from the Commonwealth Secretariat:http://publications.thecommonwealth.org/manoeuvring-at-the-margins-782-p.aspx
Despite these differences, however, two messages can be delineated. The first is negative concerns the near universal agreement that EPAs fall short of their developmental potential, that promised improvements have not materialized, regional integration has been largely compromised, and trust has eroded. The second message is positive and it is that actors have not lost hope of turning this situation around, and there is no shortage of creative suggestions as to how the agreements can be improved. The challenge for negotiating parties is to put aside the rocky negotiating process to date, rebuild the trust needed for a true partnership, and with renewed focus, enter into a constructive, realistic, and pragmatic dialogue on how best to update EPAs.