The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) generated an unprecedented public contestation across Europe. In this paper, we focus on the sources of such backlash in European public opinion. Previous studies of this issue have analysed opinions on free trade and the specific...

"The Multilevel Politics of Trade presents a timely comparative analysis of eight federations (plus the European Union) to explore why some subfederal actors have become more active in trade politics in recent years. As the contributing authors find, there is considerable variation in the...

Galvanized by the devastation of the Second World War, European countries achieved a historically unprecedented and unparalleled level of regional economic integration in the postwar period. Intensive cooperation between the two biggest powers of continental Western Europe, France, and Germany,...