Special issue: Writing the rules of 21st century trade: the EU and the new trade bilateralism

EU trade policy is in flux. This reflects various developments, chief among them: the deepening of the global trade liberalisation agenda, the EU’s own constitutional recasting of the Common Commercial Policy, and the politicization of trade. The purpose of this special issue is to analyse the changing politics of trade in the EU, focusing on the EU FTAs with Korea, the US, Canada, and Japan.

Articles:

+ Introduction: the new EU FTAs as contentious market regulation Finn Laursen & Christilla Roederer-Rynning
+ Business dimensions of EU’s new FTAs Jacques Pelkmans
+ The new trade deals and the mobilisation of civil society organizations: comparing EU and US responses Laurie A. Buonanno
+ National parliaments and the new contentiousness of trade Christilla Roederer-Rynning & Morten Kallestrup
+ The new politics of trade negotiations: the case of the EU-Korea FTA Sunghoon Park
+ EU and trade policy-making: the contentious case of CETA Kurt Hübner, Anne-Sophie Deman & Tugce Balik
+ TTIP: contentious market regulation Roberto Dominguez
+ The new politics of trade: EU-Japan Hitoshi Suzuki
+ The European Union and the space-time continuum of investment agreements Sophie Meunier & Jean-Frédéric Morin
+ European trade policy in interesting times Alasdair R. Young