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A Bottom-Up Approach for Climate Change : The Trade Experience

Leal-Arcas, Rafael - 2012

This article argues that the Kyoto Protocol to the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was doomed to face difficulties ab initio. Moving the climate change agenda forward multilaterally among the 195 parties to the UNFCCC is proving to be a serious challenge. The lack of...

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Top-Down Versus Bottom-Up Approaches for Climate Change Negotiations : An Analysis

Leal-Arcas, Rafael - 2012

This paper argues that the Kyoto Protocol to the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change was doomed to face difficulties ab initio. It explains why this is the case by analyzing the Kyoto Protocol’s shortcomings and deficiencies. Moving the climate change agenda forward multilaterally...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014176156

Review of External Economic Relations and Foreign Policy in the European Union

Leal-Arcas, Rafael - 2013

Most of the book deals with very traditional and somewhat overlapping topics on the EU’s external relations. However straightforward the overall diagnosis in the book is, sepulchral silence remains in relation to the prognosis of the EU’s external relations. For example, in his conclusions,...

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China’s Attitude to Multilateralism in International Economic Law and Governance (in Chinese)

Leal-Arcas, Rafael - 2011

in the coastal regions. Since joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) in December 2001, China has enjoyed significant … economic growth. The rigorous economic regulation requirements needed to join the WTO have worked as a catalyst for Chinese … in the WTO’s dispute settlement system. However, for the Doha negotiations to succeed, greater leadership from China is …

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European Union-China Trade Relations

Leal-Arcas, Rafael - 2011

This article analyzes European Union-China trade relations in the context of the current negotiations for a new comprehensive framework agreement between the European Union (EU) and the People’s Republic of China. China is a strong economic power with increasingly sophisticated production in...

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International Trade and Investment Law : Multilateral, Regional and Bilateral Governance

Leal-Arcas, Rafael - 2010

This timely book examines international trade and investment law at various levels of governance, including unilateral, bilateral, regional, and multilateral arrangements. The author demonstrates that the nature of international trade law is fragmented and cyclical. Whilst not always...

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A Look at Services Trade : Implications of the Doha Talks Suspension and Resumption

Leal-Arcas, Rafael - 2014

This chapter addresses the current World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations on trade in services in the framework of … the Doha Development Agenda. An analysis of the 6th WTO Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong is provided. Following the … suspension of the WTO multilateral trade negotiations in July 2006 - and its subsequent resumption in February 2007 - by WTO …

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The Fragmented Governance of the Global Energy Economy : A Legal-Institutional Analysis

Leal-Arcas, Rafael; Filis, Andrew - 2013

The objective of this paper is to promote global energy security by evaluating the existing patchwork of institutions and processes linked to the governance of the global energy economy. What we mean by global energy security is the satisfaction of humankind’s energy needs to maintain...

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Climate Change and International Trade

Leal-Arcas, Rafael - 2013

applying the GATT/WTO model to a post-Kyoto climate deal. The book also presents the innovative approach of creating RTAs with …

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Sustainability, Common Concern and Public Goods

Leal-Arcas, Rafael - 2017

This article analyzes the conceptual links between sustainability, common concern and public goods. It examines the mega-trends of the 21st century in the context of sustainability. By doing so, it brings forward the novel idea of how greater participation of citizens can be very promising in...

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