"International commitments may sit uneasily with national pressures in the best of times. This age of economic uncertainty brings these tensions into sharper relief. This volume draws together thirteen analyses of this tension in a wide array of contexts, including each of the three main pillars...

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Table of Cases -- Table of International Treaties and Other Instruments -- Part 1 The Global Economic Order in Evolution -- Chapter 1 The Evolution of...

The evolution of the international economic order / Chia-Jui Cheng --The WTO legal and dispute settlements systems in time of global governance crises / Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann -- The use and abuse of the national security exception under Article xxi(b)(iii) of the GATT 1994 / Peter L.H. Van den...

Introduction -- Economic competition and the development of International Labour Law -- Multilateral Trade Law and labour -- International investment law and labour -- Preferential trade and investment agreements and labour -- Conclusions.