Investor-state dispute settlement and arbitration, in particular, stands at the centre of a process intended to reform the global regime of international investment treaties. The mechanism's negative impact on public decision-making processes and its inherent shortcomings, such as an absence of...

This paper analyses major current trends in EU trade policy and their impact on the Asia-Pacific region. It explains how after being a guardian of multilateralism for many years, the EU is currently negotiating bilateral Free Trade Agreements with countries in the area while important and...