Positive Integration - EU and WTO Approaches Towards the "Trade and" Debate (European Yearbook of International Economic Law) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3030256642 ISBN 13: 9783030256647

Publisher: Springer, 2020

Synopsis

This book presents a new framework for the 'trade and environment' debate and discusses the ways in which the EU and the WTO address this topic: positive, negative and non-integration. It analyses areas like food safety and renewable energy from the perspectives of legal and political science, and economics, and includes contributions focusing on various approaches, such as harmonisation, regulatory cooperation and judicialisation. In the 21st century, especially in our current times, where free trade and economic integration are increasingly being called into question, it is even more vital to find convincing normative answers and ways to address the very complex relationship between trade and environmental policies. Debunking some of the myths concerning positive and negative integration and the relationship between the two, this book is a valuable contribution to the debate on globalisation.

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About the Author

Rike Krämer-Hoppe is a senior research fellow at the Ruhr-University Bochum. Before joining the Ruhr-University, she was a lecturer at the University College London and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the New York University. She holds a PhD in law from the University Bremen. Her main fields of research are economic law, environmental law and administrative comparative law. 

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This book presents a new framework for the 'trade and environment' debate and discusses the ways in which the EU and the WTO address this topic: positive, negative and non-integration. It analyses areas like food safety and renewable energy from the perspectives of legal and political science, and economics, and includes contributions focusing on various approaches, such as harmonisation, regulatory cooperation and judicialisation. In the 21st century, especially in our current times, where free trade and economic integration are increasingly being called into question, it is even more vital to find convincing normative answers and ways to address the very complex relationship between trade and environmental policies. Debunking some of the myths concerning positive and negative integration and the relationship between the two, this book is a valuable contribution to the debate on globalisation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030256642
• ISBN 13: 9783030256647
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 156
• Editor: Krämer-Hoppe Rike