During the last decade, many scientific articles have been published in political science about the formation of BRICS and the therewith related possible change of the international order.However, this topic has attracted much less attention in the economics literature. Based on a selective...

Since the end of the Cold War the number of free trade and preferential partnership agreements has been increasing worldwide. A large part of these treaties are made between developing- and emergent countries. This dissertation studies the questions whether so called South-South RIAs (regional...