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  • The Concept Design of a Twenty-First Century Preferential Trade Agreement

    Trends and Future Innovations

    The Concept Design of a 21st Century Preferential Trade Agreement describes the current status and possible future evolution of trade agreements. The individual contributions provide fine-grained analyses of the various challenges trade agreements face and how these differ across countries. The book brings together leading researchers from international law and international relations to provide ... Read more

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  • Globalization in Latin America

    The Law, Politics and Economics of Preferential Trade Agreements

    The approach of Latin American countries to preferential trade agreements (PTAs) is a fascinating topic. There is a rich history of policymakers using PTAs to pursue different economic and political models of integration. What really stands out is the diversity of approaches and attitudes to the use of PTAs. While some countries have been rule-makers and have made innovative attempts to introduce ... Read more

    $106.59 USD

  • International Economic Dispute Settlement

    Demise or Transformation?

    The post-Cold War era has seen an unprecedented move towards more legalization in international cooperation and a growth of third-party dispute settlement systems. WTO panels, the Appellate Body and investor-state dispute settlement cases have received increasing attention beyond the core trade and investment constituencies within governments. Scrutiny by business, civil society, academia, and ... Read more

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  • The Shifting Landscape of Global Trade Governance

    World Trade Forum

    Today's trade regime and its rules are under pressure. Increasing societal discontent with globalization and the rise of protectionist measures threaten the trade regime's legitimacy and effectiveness. The authors explore systemic challenges to the trade regime, inter alia, related to development, migration, inequality, the digital economy and climate change. The Shifting Landscape of Global Trade ... Read more

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  • Trade Cooperation

    The Purpose, Design and Effects of Preferential Trade Agreements

    Edited by Andreas Dür, Manfred Elsig ...
    Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) have been proliferating for more than two decades, with the negotiations for a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and a Trans-Pacific Partnership being just the tip of the iceberg. This volume addresses some of the most pressing issues related to the surge of these agreements. It includes chapters written by leading political scientists, economists ... Read more

    $57.39 USD

  • The European Union's Foreign Economic Policies

    A Principal-Agent Perspective

    Edited by Andreas Dür, Manfred Elsig ...
    Series series Journal of European Public Policy Series
    The European Union is a key actor in international economic governance. Through its foreign economic policies it plays a central role in the negotiation of international trade agreements, the global regulation of the financial services sector, and the provision of aid to developing countries. This book shows how principal-agent theory can be used to shed new light on this complex of policy areas. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The EU's Common Commercial Policy

    Institutions, Interests and Ideas

    by Manfred Elsig ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2002. This volume aims to provide fresh insight into the complex struggles of the European Union (EU) institutions and the member states over who should negotiate trade issues on Europe's behalf. The book makes effective use of new empirical data on the daily operations of European trade policy based on interviews with high-ranking trade officials. Furthermore, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Assessing the World Trade Organization

    Fit for Purpose?

    The World Trade Organization (WTO) recently celebrated twenty years of existence. The general wisdom is that its dispute settlement institutions work well and its negotiation machinery goes through a phase of prolonged crises. Assessing the World Trade Organization overcomes this myopic view and takes stock of the WTO's achievements whilst going beyond existing disciplinary narratives. With ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Governing the World Trade Organization

    Past, Present and Beyond Doha

    Edited by Thomas Cottier, Manfred Elsig ...
    Like many other international organizations, the World Trade Organization stands at a crossroads. There is an obvious imbalance between the organization's dispute settlement arm and its negotiation platform. While its current rules, supported by a strong dispute settlement system, have provided some buffering against the negative effects of the financial crises, its negotiation machinery has not ... Read more

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    New Partners or Old Patterns?

    The current framework of development cooperation is dominated by the experiences of industrialized countries. But emerging economies have begun to accelerate their own development programmes, and attempts to bring them into existing aid models have been met with caution and reservation.This expert, topical volume explores the development policies of Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa, ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Sweet Talk

    Paternalism and Collective Action in North-South Trade Relations

    by J. P. Singh ...
    Series series Emerging Frontiers in the Global Economy
    Developed nations strive to create the impression that their hearts and pockets bleed for the developing world. Yet, the global North continues to offer unfavorable trade terms to the global South. Truly fair trade would make reciprocal concessions to developing countries while allowing them to better their own positions. However, five hundred years of colonial racism and post-colonial paternalism ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Politics of Global Regulation

    Edited by Walter Mattli, Ngaire Woods ...
    Regulation by public and private organizations can be hijacked by special interests or small groups of powerful firms, and nowhere is this easier than at the global level. In whose interest is the global economy being regulated? Under what conditions can global regulation be made to serve broader interests? This is the first book to examine systematically how and why such hijacking or "regulatory ... Read more

    $28.09 USD