As multilateral negotiations become increasingly complex and protracted, preferential trade
agreements have become the centerpiece of trade diplomacy. Pushing beyond tariffs into …

Does China's growing economic presence pose an opportunity or a threat to regional
economic integration? The authors answer this question by analyzing longitudinal and cross …

This paper interprets China's overall trade policy since its accession to the World Trade
Organisation (WTO) almost a decade ago, and more recently in the wake of the global …

In late 2006, Peter Mandelson, the EU trade commissioner, announced a new EU policy on
free trade agreements (FTAs). This is contained in the European Commission's Global …

This paper essentially focuses on the belated regionalization attempts of the South Asian
economies and myriad of problems that are coming in their way to forming a smoothly …

This paper attempts to examine the impact of trade liberalization over the macro economic
structure of four SAARC member countries–Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Srilanka …

India has had a “good” crisis. The global financial crisis has induced a sharp divergence of
economic performance between the West and emerging markets, particularly in Asia. China …

ASEAN FTAs: ASEAN's Regional and Global Integration 321 reforms that work with the grain
of ASEAN and wider Asian realities. But this is a second-order priority to achieve further …

This paper tries to make sense of trade-policy developments in the BRIICS (Brazil, Russia,
India, Indonesia, China and South Africa), against the backdrop of trade and foreign-direct …

The ongoing re-polarization of the global economy, in which China and Asia are playing an
increasingly important role, has led to fundamental challenges for EU policymakers. Among …