Sovereign actors have lost the lion's share of their discretion to regulate terms of trade over the last century. The increased cross-border interactions between private merchants have led to the spontaneous creation of autonomous global order of private commercial contracting (the micro-level)...

My task for today is to update the members of the consortium on what we do at the UCL Australia with the Work Package number eleven, titled Suggestions for Policy Formulation.Let me go through the structure of the presentation. I am going to cover the following points. First, I am going to give...

The concept of the PRC's co-operation with the Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) in the sixteen-plus-one format (G16 1) first emerged in December 2011when the PRC and Poland signed the strategic-partnership declaration, later formalised in April 2012.The obvious purpose of the G16 1...

The BRI is still at the very initial phase of realisation and its success essentially depends on the formation of efficient institutional and regulatory environment along OBOR's trade routes. To this end, this edited volume offers a comprehensive analysis of the BRI and aims at providing the...

The Northern Sea Route (NSR) passes through international waters and therefore is subjected to international regimes which encroach upon the regulatory sovereignty of states having stakes in the Arctic. These commitments cover freedom and safety of navigation, delimitation of exclusive economic...

The goal of this article is to discuss what one could reasonably expect from future procurement rules imposed by the AIIB as the leading China-led initiative potentially reshaping the current landscape of the MDBs' operations. This article starts by summarizing the discourse between the AIIB's...

CPTPP's chapter on government procurement will bring about a significant change to international liberalisation of procurement markets in Trans-Pacific dimension. Previous procurement-related commitments in the region were very limited. Only four of the CPTPP signatories are bound by the GPA....

The World Bank has for decades influenced the regulation and international liberalisation of public procurement markets. However, proliferating procurement chapters of trade agreements and cheap commercial credit flooding emerging markets, along with new development banks on the horizon, forced...