The COVID pandemic has demonstrated the weakness of neoliberalism by showing the importance of public services, workers’ need for security, and a heightened awareness of collective interdependence. Economic theory recognises the deficiencies of depending on market forces by accepting certain...

This paper deals with the ways in which the interconnectedness of multiple political levels in increaingly internationalized structures of governance impacts on these levels' democratic legitimation. Focusing on the European Union (EU), it argues that in the EU's multi-level system, the...

Kennedy's initiative for a new Gatt Round: liberalising international trade and strengthening the Atlantic alliance -- The EEC's answer to the U.S. proposal: accepting the Round while defending its regionalism -- Devising the rule of the Kennedy Round (1963-1964) -- The regional crisis in a...