Two recent developments have the potential to fundamentally alter the conventional view of
EU trade policy-making: the emergence of global value chains (GVCs) and the recent …

The recent debate on administrative bodies in international organizations has brought
forward multiple theoretical perspectives, analytical frameworks, and methodological …

Keukeleire and Delreux demonstrate the scope and diversity of the European Union's
foreign policy, showing that EU foreign policy is broader than the Common Foreign and …

The global economy is experiencing the digitalization of production, exchange, and
consumption of goods and services. The internet and cross-border data flows are becoming …

Given the omnipresence of delegation and control in the EU, the principal–agent model has
become a popular analytical framework to study the design and effects of delegation and …

The European Union is a key player in international economic relations, but its exact role
and how it goes about making decisions and negotiating is often poorly understood within …

In the introduction to this collection on the principal–agent approach and the European
Union's (EU) foreign economic policies we briefly present the EU's institutional structure for …

This article analyses the World Trade Organization within a principal–agent framework. The
concept of complex agent is introduced to focus on the variety of actors that comprise an …

With the stagnation of the Doha Round of multilateral talks, trade liberalisation is
increasingly undertaken through free trade agreements. Gabriel Siles-Brügge examines the …

The European Union and Global Financial Regulation examines the influence of the
European Union (EU) in regulating global finance, addressing several inter-related …