The consensual structure of the international legal order, with its strong emphasis on the
sovereign equality of states, has always been somewhat precarious. In different waves over …

This comprehensive and clearly written textbook offers a long-awaited introduction to the
trade policy of the European Union, the world's largest trading entity. Gstöhl and De Bièvre …

Competition laws play important roles in safeguarding and promoting competition in an
economy. One important question is why some countries adopt strong competition laws …

More than one hundred and thirty countries or jurisdictions now have laws that seek to
safeguard and foster market competition.! At a minimum, such competition laws prohibit …

When rapid economic growth catapults a country within a few years from the margins of the
global economy to middle power status, does global regulatory governance need to brace …

Competition policy has been a central forum for contesting the uneasy relationship between
capitalism and democracy since the late nineteenth century. From the earliest policy …

This chapter provides an overview of the political science literature on the development of
European Union (EU) State aid control and on its impact at the domestic level. First, while …

In the global field of antitrust law, policy paradigms are pushed and pulled by forces
analogous to those of the market. Policy entrepreneurs (typically competition law agencies) …

The book examines whether EU competition policy is applied fairly and consistently to EU
and non-EU firms despite persistent political pressure from member states for a relaxation of …

We apply network analysis and topic modeling techniques to explore the evolution of the
European Union's treaty making activity and the patterns of litigation they have given rise to …