This paper looks at the trade policy landscape of the EU and the wider Europe, with a focus on issues arising from the signature on 27 June 2014 of Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements (DCFTAs) between the EU and three East European countries (Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine), and actual or...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: The Legacy -- 1. Spain, Europe, and the Atlantic System, 1500-1700 -- 2. Financing Empire: The European Diaspora of Silver by War -- 3. Westphalia: The Legacy of Unequal Treaties -- 4. Conjunctural Crisis: War and the Utrecht...

This paper shows that the opportunity costs resulting from economic interdependence decrease the equilibrium probability of war in an incomplete information game. This result is strongly consistent with existing empirical analyses of the inverse trade-conflict relationship, but is the opposite...