This book is an analysis of the European Union (EU) as a case study in a new plurilateral trade order. This book is a contribution to the EU’s external trade relations, which is a sub-field of the broader field of the EU international relations law. This book is not about EU trade law as seen...

This article analyzes European Union-China trade relations in the context of the current negotiations for a new comprehensive framework agreement between the European Union (EU) and the People’s Republic of China. China is a strong economic power with increasingly sophisticated production in...

January 2009 brought a stark reminder of the perils of European dependence on Russian natural gas. A cutoff of supplies connected in part to a pricing dispute between Russia and Ukraine, the crucial transit country for much of Russia’s gas, left millions of Europeans without heat and forced...

This chapter analyzes the legal and policy implications of the Doha Round, focusing on international trade in services. After an explanation of a Round and why it was necessary to have a new Round of international trade talks, the chapter analyzes the General Agreement on Trade in Services...

This article is an attempt to a thorough chronological analysis of the ECs existing law in the field of international trade since the WTO agreement. It deals with the evolution of the ECs common commercial policy competence through the years, starting with the WTO agreement signed in Marrakesh...

This paper is a comparative institutional analysis of the EC's decision-making process in trade policy by focusing on three variables, i.e., competence (whether national or EC competence in EC trade policy), control (who controls the EC's position in international trade negotiations: the...

The paper is divided into two parts: Chapter 2 explores the problem of the EC in its external trade relations on issues of shared competence with its Member States in a general way, while chapter 3 examines more specifically the EC and mixed agreements from a legal perspective. Here we have...

This paper argues that the Kyoto Protocol to the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change was doomed to face difficulties ab initio. It explains why this is the case by analyzing the Kyoto Protocol’s shortcomings and deficiencies. Moving the climate change agenda forward multilaterally...

This book examines how international trade can be utilised to build a sustainable future. It highlights how international trade and climate regimes can work together to put in place a Green New Deal. The potential of mega-regional trade agreements to aid climate change mitigation and power the...