This book employs a multi-level and multi-arena perspective to analyze global rule making for international trade. It explains why actors - both state and non-state actors - prefer specific arenas of global rule-making. It also addresses the question of which institutional designs serve the aims...

Increasing moves away from multilateralism have created a fragmented trade and investment scenario where economies progressively combine the application of restrictive unilateral actions with bilateral and regional preferences. The application of, and exceptions to, the non-discrimination...