Publications

The World Trade Institute (WTI) is committed to advancing scholarly research in the fields of international trade law, economics, and political science. Our research staff regularly publish a broad array of academic works, including:

Monographs and edited volumes
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Book chapters
Working papers and policy briefs

These publications reflect the interdisciplinary nature of our work and contribute to global debates on trade, investment, and sustainable development.

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30 Oct 2024 | Working Papers

The Far Side of Women’s Participatory Rights as the Dark Side of the Moon: The Unseen Article 8 CEDAW

The present research started from the legal analysis of women’s participatory rights in leadership positions in publ…

22 Oct 2024 | Working Papers

Navigating the AI Frontier in International Trade Law

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fundamentally reshaping various facets of social, political and economic life. Within this transformative paradigm, both international organizations…

da Fonseca Azevedo, Milena

16 Oct 2024 | Policy briefs

Pursuing Environmental and Social Objectives through Trade Agreements

Using a data set covering more than 120 countries spanning several decades, this paper employs a synthetic difference in difference estimator to study whether …

Francois, Joseph

16 Oct 2024 | Working Papers, Reports/ Presentations

Space Pirates, or, Subsidizing Industrial Sabotage in Outer Space

Much like the exploitation of global trade by the first multinationals, early space commerce has the potential to lead to significant conflict as privateers seek to…

Francois, Joseph | Polanco, Rodrigo

14 Oct 2024 | Other

Discussion paper on the feasibility of changes in trade relations and instruments

We place the question of change feasibility in the general context of food sustainability governance. Regrettably, our feasibility assessment m…

Häberli, Christian

26 Sep 2024 | Working Papers

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) put to the test of geostrategic tensions and the upsurge of industrial policies

According to the prevailing paradigm at the end of the Cold War, the opening of markets and internat…

Chambovey, Didier

10 Sep 2024 | Other

Die Schweiz geht mit Indien eine Wette ein

Das neue Abkommen der Efta mit Indien ist ein Bruch mit traditionellen Handelsverträgen. Mondflug, Aufstieg zum bevölkerungsreichsten Land der Welt, exzellente Wachstumsprognosen: Die Rede ist v…

Panizzon, Marion

3 Sep 2024 | Books/ Book Chapters

Empirical Dimensions of Investment Awards

This chapter provides an empirical evaluation of awards in investor-state arbitration, including both internal and external elements.

Polanco, Rodrigo

2 Sep 2024 | Working Papers

The Uncertain Future of WTO Dispute Settlement: An Appraisal of the February 2024 Consolidated Text Resulting from the Molina Process on Dispute Settlement Reform

The paper focuses, in particular, on t…

Van den Bossche, Peter L.H.

2 Sep 2024 | Working Papers

Les mesures temporaires spéciales et leurs effets sur la participation politique des femmes en Afrique

Le violet est devenu le symbole de la lutte pour les droits des femmes.

Somé, Frank

30 Jul 2024 | Working Papers

Reimagining Sustainable Space Mining with Due Diligence

WTI Working Paper No. 1/2024 by Aylin Yildiz Noorda, Ksenia Polonskaya, and Merve Erdem Burger

11 Jun 2024 | Other

Novel Approaches in Sustainable Food Trade

Blog by Christian Häberli (PhD, Law, WTI, MATS)

Häberli, Christian

27 May 2024 | Journal Articles

Limited home state measures in the WTO Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement: a missed opportunity or a starting point?

This article by Rodrigo Polanco published in the Columbia FDI Perspectives N° …

Polanco, Rodrigo

7 May 2024 | Other

Simplifying International Trade with Single Windows

Article by Craig Atkinson, WTI Non-Resident Fellow and Research Affiliate at Singapore Management University Centre for AI and Data Governance/Centre for Computational Law, published…

Atkinson, Craig

25 Apr 2024 | Journal Articles, Other

The Ties that Bind: Immigration and the Global Political Economy

Book Review by WTI Senior Research Fellow, Marion Panizzon, for the Journal "International Relations of the Asia-Pacific".

Panizzon, Marion

25 Apr 2024 | Books/ Book Chapters

Of patterns, processes and priorities: what the Global Compact for Migration Means by ‘aligning’ partnerships to the UN Agenda 2030

Book chapter by WTI Senior Research Fellow, Marion Panizzon, together with Pro…

Panizzon, Marion

19 Mar 2024 | Journal Articles

Why is there no investor-state dispute settlement in RCEP? Bargaining and Contestation in the Investment Regime

WTI’s researchers co-authored a new article in the Business and Politics journal in open access. Check …

Elsig, Manfred | Ganeson, Kirthana | Jusoh, Sufian | Lugg, Andrew

14 Mar 2024 | Journal Articles

Patterns of regulatory heterogeneity in international trade: Intensity, coverage, and structure

A new paper by Irene Garcés and Achim Vogt, WTI Researchers, published in "Review of International Economics" published by Jo…

Garcés Iriarte, Irene | Vogt, Achim

11 Mar 2024 | Books/ Book Chapters

Human Rights and Unilateral Economic Sanctions: A New Perspective on a Twisted Relationship

Latest article by Dr Iryna Bogdanova, WTI’s Postdoctoral Researcher in the European Yearbook on Human Rights 2023

Bogdanova, Iryna

31 Jan 2024 | Books/ Book Chapters

Elgar Encyclopedia of International Economic Law

Prof Em Thomas Cottier, Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer and Dr Rodrigo Polanco - all associated with the WTI - are editors of the new vastly expanded edition of the Elgar Encyclopedia of In…

Cottier, Thomas | Nadakavukaren Schefer, Krista | Polanco, Rodrigo

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