Since the late 1980s, the notion that greater exposure to the global trading system offers the
most viable route out of poverty for developing and least developed countries (LDCs) has …

Given the widely-accepted premise that free trade is the best means of maximising overall
societal welfare, why has it proven so difficult to achieve in certain industries? This book …

In the last ten years, employment in the textile and clothing industry in the European
Community has decreased by roughly one million workers. In the face of falling employment …

Razeen Sally is a Director of ECIPE, which he co-founded in 2006 together with Fredrik
Erixon. He is also Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at the London School of …

When I first decided to find an area where I could apply my ideas on international
cooperation and conflict, I did not realize that textile trade would prove to be such a rich …

Written in the context of contemporary theoretical debate in international political economy,
this book overturns a number of myths about the political economy of trade in one of the …

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﹑ a synpositim made up of so many distinguished experts in econonics, my role as first speaker …

With protectionist sentiment and economic nationalism on the rise, international trade and
how it is governed is at the heart of some of the most important contemporary economic and …

In this article we address two questions pertinent to the debate on the relationship between
industrial restructuring and the new protectionism. First, does the appearance of industry …

Recent international developments in raw material export industries have refocused
attention on the resource supply chain as a specific terrain of politicaleconomic power and …