The much hyped rise of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) has lately
been met with equally fervent declarations of their demise. Amid slowing growth in many of …

The 1999 Seattle protests, which brought thirty thousand people to the streets in opposition
to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and set off a series of other protests against the …

Knowledge is a key commodity in agenda setting. Knowledge underpins the new
understandings that can play a central role in (re) framing issues (old and new), enabling …

Conventional wisdom holds that not all preferential trade agreements (PTAs) are alike.
Trade agreements between developed and developing countries (North-South PTAs) tend …

ABSTRACT World Trade Organization (WTO) rules on agriculture are among the most
contentious issues in the international political economy due to agriculture's importance in …

The mushrooming of trade agreements and their interlinkages with environmental
governance calls for new research on the trade and environment interface. The more than …

A range of socio-economic dislocations have spawned renewed interest in the capitalist
system and its critiques. Within these trends, the politics of international trade has often been …

The debate on the Sustainable Development Goals framework offered a set piece for civil
society organizations/CSOs to challenge institutions such as the EU. This article maps and …

This book examines the causes and consequences of social standards in US and EU
preferential trade agreements (PTAs). PTAs are the new reality of the global trading system …

India is frequently cast as a troublemaker and blamed for the breakdown of the Doha Round.
This article provides a critical re-reading of India's trade policy and its position in multilateral …