Pioneering Social Democratic Trade: Industrial Policy, Fair Trade, and Europe’s Green Deal
摘要
Chapter 7 develops the book’s principal counterpoint to authoritarian trade nationalism by examining emergent social-democratic and green alternatives to neoliberal trade governance. Centering the European Green Deal, fair trade movements, and the broader return of industrial policy, the chapter asks what it would mean to re-embed trade within ecological transition, labor rights, and democratic accountability. It analyzes how standards-based multilateralism, strategic investment, and climate-justice-linked trade measures could form the basis of a progressive post-neoliberal bloc—while also confronting real constraints: geopolitical rivalry, subsidy wars, uneven development, and the risk of “green” protectionism reproducing North–South inequality. The chapter argues that the struggle is not simply over policy instruments but over institutional design and coalition-building capable of aligning domestic levers with global justice goals—making trade a tool for sustainable development rather than domination.