This book by Professor Peter Cameron examines the current multifaceted and multilayered system of legal stability for energy investments and how this system has been tested by unilateral state demands for contract renegotiation. Cameron's contextual point of departure is the extraordinary...

This paper argues that there remains substantial scope for emerging markets in general - and for India in particular - to make further commitments towards greater liberalization within the services sectors and within all modes of supply provided in the General Agreement on Trade in Services...

This paper examines the bilateral trade relations between the European Union (EU) and the BRIC countries. The paper argues that Brazil is an efficient agricultural producer with strong interest in EU agricultural liberalization. India is interested in more access to the EU service market since...

This paper identifies various areas in which the trade and climate change agendas can cooperate. Both play essential roles in sustainable development, which makes it all the more important to explore their potential for symbiosis. In this context, the paper examines the option of capitalizing on...

In the context of a current global economic crisis and an unfinished World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Round, multilateralism is at its weakest point. The proliferation of bilateral and regional trade agreements seems to be the natural consequence of failed multilateralism. In this difficult...

In the midst of the most serious global economic crisis since the Great Depression, it seems pertinent to reform the current system of global economic governance. There is a widely shared assumption that a new Group of 20 nations (G-20), represented by their Finance Ministers and Central Bank...

The purpose of this article is to provide an analysis of smart grids in the European Union (EU) as a way forward to reach sustainable energy. It does so by assessing the energy security, regulatory, and social and ethical aspects of smart grids in the EU. The article represents a significant...

This article provides a timely and forward-thinking analysis regarding the transition to clean energy. It does so by offering a behavioral-economics analysis of prosumer-market factors. We argue that transitioning to clean energy cannot be achieved solely through top-down or bottom-up methods;...