Institutional and political constraints and bargain power in agriculture international negotiations: the case of EU

This article analyses the influence of political institutions and of the Common Agricultural Policy on the EU's behavior in international agricultural negotiations. It aims at demonstrating that those factors contribute to make the EU's ratification context restricted, increasing its bargaining power and reducing the leverage of its opponents. Therefore, this paper considers how the member states' interests are channeled by the institutions and the role of the EU in relation to the behavior of the USA and of Brazil in the Uruguay and Doha Rounds.