Nimble trade and industrial policy is essential for Least-Developed Countries (LDCs) to
thrive in a world of global value chains (GVCs).“Adaptive states” in LDCs need to create and …

International organisations (IOs) are considered fundamental in addressing global
problems, but how effective are they? Conflict (war), human rights, global health, financial …

Die Begrundung des internationalen Umweltrechts suchen die meisten in der Ortlosigkeit
seines Gegenstands: Die okologische Frage kann im Alleingang souveraner Staaten nicht …

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain,
whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that …

Introduction to Trade Policy provides a comprehensive overview of the rules and regulations
that govern trade flow. It discusses the trade policy formulation process of major international …

In today's affluent world approximately one-third of the human population lives in a state of
poverty. Around 870 million people-more than the populations of the United States and …

In an age of transnational firms, global civil society organisations and multilateral institutions
of global governance, the traditional approach to understanding diplomacy as consisting of …

The Doha Development Agenda, may go down in history as the slowest development round
of all times. Starting in 2001, negotiations have been going on for 13 years and collapsed on …

Little attention has been paid to the impact of urbanisation on food insecurity in the context of
Malthusian and post-Malthusian studies. In addition, there has been little investigation into …

The WTO has been sidelined for a long time. On the other hand, mega-FTAs such as the
TPP, TTIP, RCEP, and others have been the centers of attention in recent years. But even in …