Insights
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The Tools of the Free Trade
By: Natalia MacyraRecent years have shown that trade policy is no longer an issue discussed behind closed doors. Grassroots movement’s campaigns have brought the...
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China’s Growing Soft Power: Should Europe Protect its Cultural Industries?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Korea ProjectBy: Stephen RangerOne of the notable aspects of China’s foreign policy in recent years has been the increasing focus on developing soft power. Beijing has arguably...
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After Florence: a Step Forward, but Whose Turn to Go Next?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and GovernanceSo where do matters stand with the UK-EU negotiations for an orderly separation or withdrawal agreement? Three major events – the Lancaster House...
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Transatlantic Trade Relations: Return to Normal?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTrump’s rhetoric on trade during his election campaign set a bad tone for US trade policy in general, but also for EU-US trade relations. However,...
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What’s the Economic Impact of Brexit and the US Withdrawal from TPP?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Latin America North America South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityDr Kenichi Kawasaki, Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo and a leading expert on quantitative modelling...
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Book Review: Europe in Emerging Asia
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Guest AuthorEurope in Emerging Asia, Opportunities and Obstacles in Political and Economic Encounters, edited by Fredrik Erixon and Krishnan Srinivasan This...
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Strategic Challenge or Economic Benefit? Interpreting China’s FDI Flows
By: Stephen RangerForeign Direct Investment (FDI) and national security are often adversarial to one another. This is particularly the case with outward FDI from China...
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Europe’s Productivity Problem
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyThere is a long-standing concern about Europe’s productivity performance, a long-term indicator for sustained economic growth. It is a measure that...
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Data Localization in the EU: The Threat from Inside
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyAs growth in the EU has remained low and the usual channels for recovery such as greater investment or an increase in the working-age population...
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A US Retreat from TPP: What Does Services Trade Tell Us?
Research Areas: Far East Industrial and Competitiveness Policy North America South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityDuring last weekend’s summit meeting of Asia-Pacific leaders in Peru, President Obama made the case that failure to sign on to TPP would...
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Brexit – The Trade Agenda Moves One Step Further
By: Roderick AbbottIn a previous blog I described the UK trade agenda, the four principal areas where the UK will be losing trade access or trade rights and privileges...
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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...