Publications (Filter: multilateralism)
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A Multilateral Legal Assistance Protocol: Preventing Fragmentation and Re-territorialisation of the Internet
Ineffectual legal-assistance cooperation increasingly prompts governments to apply laws extraterritorially or to force data localisation, with dire...
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A Trans-Pacific Partnership Worth its Weight in Gold – But What is Taking so Long?
A gold standard – nothing less. The expectations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership are high. TPP is central to the United States’ foreign policy...
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The WTO Must Bounce Back
By: Stuart HarbinsonThis policy brief surveys the state of the multilateral trading system, tracing the gradual decline of the Doha Round negotiations and the emergence...
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The Multilateralism Conundrum: International Economic Relations in the Post-hegemonic Era
Examining the systemic malaise from which the Doha Development Round and the WTO suffer, this working paper, produced for the Transatlantic Task...
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So Alike and Yet so Different: A Comparison of the Uruguay Round and the Doha Round
By: Peter KleenAs the first multilateral trade round to be conducted under the auspices of the WTO, the Doha Round is beginning to appear as protracted, complicated...
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Preferential Trade Agreements in Services: Friends or Foes of the Multilateral Trading System?
A fashionable feature of new generation preferential trade agreements (PTAs) has been the inclusion of a trade in services component. Does this trend...
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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...
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Trade Preferences to Small Developing Countries and the Welfare Costs of Lost Multilateral Liberalization
The proliferation of preferential trade liberalization over the last 20 years has raised the question of whether it slows down multilateral trade...
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After the WTO Hong Kong Ministerial Meeting: What is at stake?
The WTO Ministerial Meeting in Hong Kong in December 2005 made some progress in advancing the Doha Development Agenda. But much remains to be done,...
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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...
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Comprendre le cycle de négociations commerciales multilatérales de Doha: son contexte, ses enjeux, ses perspectives
This study aims to provide all the necessary keys to understanding the new round of multilateral trade negotiations set off by the World Trade...
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