Negotiations on the Economic Partnership Agreements between African, Caribbean and Pacific countries and the European Union have not been making much progress recently. How should the Partnership Agreements be structured to ensure a pro-development outcome and how could the negotiations gain...

On 6 July 2017, after four years of negotiation, the EU reached an agreement with Japan over the main elements of a comprehensive free trade agreement. The breakthrough came at a time when progress on multilateral trade negotiations at the global level seemed out of reach and EU bilateral trade...

Given the ecological, economic and social problems around the world, the search is on for a new, alternative concept capable of showing a way out of these global problems. A concept with a claim to have a vital contribution to make, which has been under discussion since the 1980s, is that of...