International trade and commerce

The book reviews globalisation by identifying causes behind the discontent it has produced in recent years.

An accessible overview of political, economic, and strategic dimensions of global supply chains in a changing global political economy.

Winner of the 2014 European Book Prize.

In April 1998 negotiations were launched to create a free trade area among thirty-four countries in the Western Hemisphere.

This book explores structural changes in India's agrifood systems during the next ten to twenty years.

The global trading system lies at the intersection of US power and wealth, but is today in grave danger of collapse.

The First Bilateral Investment Treaties is the first and only history of the U.

This book focuses on rapprochement and normalisation between Israel and some Arab countries within the context of global and regional geopolitics, bringing together broader perspectives on transformations resulting from this.

Industrial trade policy analysis of multi-country trade-theoretic framework within a Cournot oligopolistic interdependence in production.

Exposing a developing embryo or fetus to alcohol can produce life long brain damage with neurological, cognitive and behavioural consequences.

This book explores how China-Brazil relations have been impacted by the oil-related bilateral trade, investments, infrastructure projects and financing - an increasingly consequential aspect of Sino-Brazilian relations, which sheds light on China's energy security concerns and its relationship with oil-rich countries more generally.

Pearls, People, and Power is the first book to examine the trade, distribution, production, and consumption of pearls and mother-of-pearl in the global Indian Ocean over more than five centuries.

Export-Import Theory, Practices, and Procedures is the first book on the topic aimed squarely at the academic audience.

Global business leader Mathias Dpfner offers a ';compelling' (Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs columnist for Financial Times) and revolutionary road map to reshape global trade, strengthen our democracy, and safeguard our freedoms.

This book explains how three major mechanisms of globalization international trade, international migration, and the activities of multinational companies have altered working conditions and labor rights around the world during the late 20th century.

Until now, the resolution of international commercial and investment disputes has been dominated almost exclusively by international arbitration.

A new take on trade law''s roots in consensual exchange, illuminating coercive and exploitative dynamics undercutting both consent and trade.

Should Chinese energy investments be excluded from the liberal economic system based on geopolitical assessments only?

This book explores the role of trade remedies in liberalising environmental trade and discouraging environmentally harmful trade.

Latin America has been a complex laboratory for the development of international investment law.

This volume provides comprehensive chapter-by-chapter assessment of one of the world''s most important regional trade agreements, the TPP/CPTPP.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

The authorized, paginated WTO Dispute Settlement Reports in English: cases for 2016.

This book outlines the principles behind the international law of foreign investment.

In Exchange-Traded Funds and the New Dynamics of Investing, Ananth Madhavan examines the quiet transformation of asset management through the rise of passive or index investing.

Achieving success in the global marketplace is now a little easier thanks to this practical and comprehensive guide.

This book discusses the most recent developments in the WTO regime.

If you look carefully at how things are actually made in China - from shirts to toys, apple juice to oil rigs - you see a reality that contradicts every widely-held notion about the world's so-called economic powerhouse.

In recent decades, study of the ancient Egyptian natural world and its classification has adopted innovative approaches involving new technologies of analysis and a multidisciplinary general view.

In the eighteenth century Genoese merchants thrived in the changing Atlantic market.

This book challenges our understanding of the true role and impact of the World Trade Organization.

In einer Zeit, in der die Digitalisierung alle Bereiche des Geschäftslebens durchdringt, steht auch der Vertrieb vor einem fundamentalen Wandel.

A "e;foreign direct investment"e; is defined as an investment in which a resident or a firm in one country has long-term influence and control over at least 10% of the ordinary shares or voting powers of an incorporated firm, or equivalent for an unincorporated firm in another country.

International investment law is in transition.

As we enter the 2010s, the global economy is becoming increasingly integrated.

The book provides a comparative assessment of the legal regimes governing movement of persons in East African region.

Debattista on Bills of Lading in Commodity Trade provides not so much a linear road-map as a GPS system, allowing the reader to locate which aspect of the bill of lading is central to the dispute they are dealing with and evaluating that aspect from the perspective of each of: (1) the contract of sale; (2) carriage contract and (3) letter of credit.

Discusses the various challenges the WTO faces and provides policy-relevant ideas to reform WTO governance.

As every schoolboy knows, Canada is one of the larger trading countries of the world but, from the point of view of balancing her international merchandise trade payments, she does not export enough.

In 1832 William Jardine and James Matheson established what would become the greatest British trading company in East Asia in the nineteenth century.