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European Union Policy Towards Free Trade Agreements
The European Union has recently shifted to a trade policy that envisages a greater use of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). In particular the EU is...
EU-Africa Trade Relations: The Political Economy of Economic Partnership Agreements
For the last five years the European Union has been negotiating Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with the African, Caribbean, and Pacific...
A Transatlantic Divide?
The TRIPs plus phenomenon (additional steps to strengthen the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) tends to be...
Trade Policy in Asia
Trade policy in Asia is dangerously unbalanced. It rests on a shaky leg of discriminatory bilateral and regional FTAs. Its other WTO leg has gone...
Assessing the EC Trade Policy in Goods
The recent shift in European trade policy to negotiate bilateral agreements with no less than 24 countries is taking Europe into dangerous waters....
FTAs and the Prospects for Regional Integration in Asia
Trade policy in Asia has switched from non-discriminatory unilateral liberalisation, reinforced by GATT/WTO commitments, to discriminatory FTAs....
Politics and the Creation of a European SEC: The Optimal UK Strategy – Constructive Inconsistency
This paper analyses the factors influencing whether a European Securities and Exchange Commission (ESEC) will be created and confirms the primary...
From Euro-Med Partnership to European Neighborhood: Deeper Integration à la Carte and Economic Development
The expansion of the European Union (EU) has prompted the development of a new approach towards deeper integration with its neighbors: the European...
Preference Erosion and Multilateral Trade Liberalization
Because of concern that OECD tariff reductions will translate into worsening export performance for the least developed countries, trade preferences...