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Cutting Deals: Transnational Advocacy Networks and the European Union Timber Regulation at the Eastern Border [1]

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Cutting Deals: Transnational Advocacy Networks and the European Union Timber Regulation at the Eastern Border

Authors:
Simona Davidescu [3]
Aron Buzogány [4]
06/09/2021

The European Union’s (EU) Green Deal gives increased attention to the sustainability of international product cycles by implementing ‘due diligence’ requirements. We examine the difficulties in the implementation of the European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR) in two countries with weak management capacities such as Romania and Ukraine. We find that domestic and transnational civil society actors can support the implementation of due diligence requirements mainly by challenging the dominant position of private and state actors engaged in cutting deals with the EU-based wood industry, as well as contributing to increasing politicisation, raising awareness and public mobilisation.
Keywords: corruption; illegal forest activities; civil society; Green Deal; Ukraine; due diligence

Details

  • Details

    The International Spectator, Vol. 56, No. 3, September 2021, p. 105-118
  • In:
    The International Spectator [2]
  • Issue

    56/3
  • ISBN/ISSN/DOI:
    10.1080/03932729.2021.1935680

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[1] https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/c10/cutting-deals-transnational-advocacy-networks-and-european-union-timber-regulation [2] https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/lista/all/international-spectator [3] https://www.iai.it/en/persone/simona-davidescu [4] https://www.iai.it/en/persone/aron-buzogany [5] https://doi.org/10.1080/03932729.2021.1935680