This new edition of International Business examines the impact of globalization on key
aspects of the business environment. It offers a comprehensive overview of this …

Do requirements for legitimate global governance vary across intergovernmental and non-
state governance institutions? The author introduces a framework to address this question …

Existing research on the legitimacy of the UN Security Council is conceptual or theoretical,
for the most part, as scholars tend to make legitimacy assessments with reference to …

This book addresses the consequences of legitimacy in global governance, in particular
asking: when and how do legitimacy crises affect international organizations (IOs) and their …

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 …

We need a world trade organization. We just don't need the one that we have. By pitching
unequally matched states together in chaotic bouts of negotiating the global trade …

This article discusses performance in the context of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Applying the framework by Gutner and Thompson and inspired by principal-agent theory, it …

By focusing on the wider process of negotiations, this novel volume presents the first
systematic analysis of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The …

What is the role of values and principles in sustaining and reforming trade multilateralism?
After several years of crisis and gridlock, by the end of 2018 the reform process became a …

English summary: Since the end of the last decade, the precautionary principle has become
the central principle of European health and environmental protection law. The principle …