Part I. Politics and culture -- Chapter 1. Culture in External Relations: The EU and Its International Economic Agreements -- Chapter 2. Beyond Trade – The Politics of Trade Agreements and Interstate Competition: Geoeconomics as a Basis for EU and US Preferential Trade Agreements -- Chapter 3....

Free trade and its limits -- The potential and limitations of interpretation in WTO law -- The role and function of non-economic exception clauses in trade -- Models of non-economic justification clauses in WTO law : GATT/GATS versus SPS/TBT -- The non-economic grounds of justification in Art....

Unilateral reactions within the multilateral WTO context : the case of WTO trade remedies -- The relationship between public international law and WTO law -- Trade remedies in WTO and public international law -- Final remarks