Trade, Globalisation and Security
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Interview with Johan Norberg, author of ‘Progress – Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future’
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: globalisationBy: Guest AuthorECIPE: In the current age of misery there is this feeling that the world is getting darker and that the sky is about to fall down. You chronicle and...
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Brexit – the Trade Agenda: or Rights and Privileges that Will Be Lost and Will Have to Be Replaced*
By: Roderick AbbottThis note is written on the basis that exit from the EU entails some automatic loss of privileges, which can then be renegotiated with trade...
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The Impact of Globalisation on South Korea’s Nuclear Industry and its Strategic Choices
Tags: South KoreaBy: Stephen RangerSouth Korea’s nuclear industry has emerged in recent years to become a significant player in what is a competitive market. Its biggest achievement...
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Q&A with Fredrik Erixon and Björn Weigel, authors of The Innovation Illusion – How so Little is Created by so Many Working so Hard (Yale University Press)
Tags: innovationBy: Guest AuthorQuestion: Why is there an innovation illusion? Answer: People are almost daily fed with horror stories about how robots, artificial intelligence, or...
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A Tale of Two Continents
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Guest AuthorBy Anupam Ray, Professor at Paterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, University of Kentucky at Lexington,...
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Looking Beyond the Trade Deals: South Korea’s New Relations with Iran
By: Stephen RangerIt may have been a long time coming, but a South Korean president has finally made a state visit to Iran. On May 1, 2016, South Korea’s President...
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Can Europe Shape the Peaceful Rise of China? Working through the AIIB
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Stephen RangerThe old adage was that the future of Asia would be Europe’s past, yet Europe’s role in the region’s future has often been given little...
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The WTO Ministerial Conference in Nairobi – What are the Results?
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Hanna DeringerThe 10th Ministerial Conference of the WTO finished on Saturday night in Nairobi with a package of agreements the WTO itself calls “historic”....
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Realpolitik in ISDS Reform: Will the Commission’s Proposal get us Anywhere?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East North America South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThings for the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism are not looking good lately. The system has been strongly criticised by civil...
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Welcome to North Korea! Prospects on the Economic Impact of Kim Jong-un’s International Tourist Zones
Tags: North KoreaBy: Stephen RangerThe tourism industry may not seem like the most promising area for development in North Korea given its negative reputation abroad and limited...
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Innovation for Greater Economic Prosperity of Belarus?
Research Areas: Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Russia and Eurasia Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Jimmyn ParcWhich developmental path is best suited for Belarus if it wants to achieve greater and more sustainable economic prosperity? This was the question at...
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What We Talk about When we Talk about Trade
Tags: tradeCommissioner Cecilia Malmström’s Communication on European trade strategy seems to have won praises from Brussels and the capitals, with at least...