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Episode 41: How Can We Revive the WTO and Trade Multilateralism? With Simon Evenett
What’s the role of WTO in global trade policy? The WTO is not in a good shape today and multilateral trading arrangements are under considerable strain. At the same time, the COVID-19 crisis has...
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Episode 34: UK Trade Policy (after Brexit) with David Henig
In this episode, Fredrik Erixon talks to David Henig, the director of the UK Trade Policy Project. They discuss what is the UK trying to accomplish with its trade policy now that it is independent...
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Episode 33: Learning to Love Trade Again with Frank Lavin
Global trade policy is in poor health. The relevance and integrity of the WTO have been eroded. Trade wars and commercial frictions have replaced the past spirit of gradually expanding the scope for...
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Episode 30: The State of International Free Trade with Dan Ikenson
Fredrik Erixon talks to Dan Ikenson, the director of the Cato Institute's Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies. They start their discussion by talking about how free trade is seen in...
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Episode 20: Germany and Global Economic Governance in an age of chaos with Claudia Schmucker
Fredrik Erixon talks to Dr Claudia Schmucker, the head of the Globalization and the World Economy programme at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), about the WTO, G7, G20 - and Germany’s...
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Episode 16: Understanding the crisis at the WTO with Roderick Abbott
Fredrik Erixon talks to Roderick Abbott, Senior Adviser at ECIPE and former Deputy Director-General of the WTO and EU ambassador to Geneva. They discuss the crisis in the WTO's appellate body. What...
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Episode 14: How to reform Special and Differential Treatment in the WTO? With Inu Manak
Fredrik Erixon talks to Inu Manak, a Visiting Fellow at the Cato Institute, about Special and Differential Treatment (SDT) in the WTO. The current SDT regime has led President Trump to tweet that the...
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Episode 8: The past and future of EU trade policy with Christofer Fjellner
Fredrik Erixon talks to Christofer Fjellner, an MEP from Sweden who sits on the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade. They talk about how EU trade policy has evolved throughout the...
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Brexit – The Trade Agenda Moves One Step Further
In a previous blog I described the UK trade agenda, the four principal areas where the UK will be losing trade access or trade rights and privileges as a result of Brexit. I presume that the...
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China – Regionalism and Multilateralism
The history of international economic cooperation teaches us one important lesson: every form of cooperation will die – essentially if not formally – if it does not adapt to new conditions for...
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