Labour standards in trade agreements: A long view on the level playing field
Why Brexit negotiations on the level playing field should be seen in light of the EU’s experience with FTAs and criticisms of labour standards provisions
Trade
COVID-19 calls for the politicisation of supply chain management
The unquestioning faith of supply chain management coupled with free-trade policy has left us unprepared to confront the pandemic.
Is Britain committing commercial suicide?
The 19th Century trade agenda being pursued by the hard Brexiteers will decimate the most productive parts of the 21st Century economy
Reglobalisation in action- Part 5: Towards a globalist feminist trade politics
A truly progressive agenda has to recognise the centrality of gendered and other social hierarchies to the deeper workings of the global political economy
Reglobalisation in action Part 4: Rethinking the role of the WTO
Given that global trade integration has produced great wealth and great inequality, its governance needs to be reformed in ways that preserve the former and ameliorate the latter
“Gender-sensitive trade”: buzzword or basic principle of post-Brexit trade policy?
Brexit could provide an opportunity to create a more gender equitable global trading system, but immediate and potentially radical action […]
Brexit: making the unpolishable sparkle
The economic logic of hard Brexit has always been a chimera, and our political class is finally waking up to […]
A critique of proposed solutions to the German trade surplus
Germany’s large trade surplus, especially with the US, has become a significant political issue, but remedying the situation is not […]
The final frontier? Promise and risk in Iran’s emerging market
Iran’s huge economic potential comes with significant risk. Foreign companies are engaging but only at arm’s length. The announcement of […]
The balancing act of Brexit and digital trade
As the UK leaves the EU it risks a potential ‘digital cliff-edge’. How it navigates its way through global tensions […]