This article introduces geoeconomics as a new analytical framework for understanding the contemporary international order, marked by multiple crises and the fragmentation of the multilateral trade system. The study adopts a multidisciplinary…
This article offers an introductory analysis of the concept of geoeconomics, contextualizing its resurgence, current applications, and strategic relevance in contemporary global affairs. It begins with a historical and interdisciplinary literature…
This article examines the rise of geoeconomics as a key analytical paradigm for understanding the ongoing transformations in the international economic order. Against the backdrop of the decline of the neoliberal model, events such as the U.S. China…
This article delineates the institutional structures established by Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Costa Rica to facilitate their accession to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The analysis delves into the political and…
The purpose of this chapter is threefold: providing an overview and analysis of gender provisions in preferential trade agreements (PTAs), assessing what gender issues are not covered and why, and showing how PTAs can be used as a policymaking tool…
This book explores whether and how trade agreements can enhance women empowerment, how they might be altered to more effectively address such interests, and what different negotiating options countries have for including women’s concerns in their…
The impact of trade agreements can vary between different groups of people, mainly because they play different roles in society, markets, and the economy, and they enjoy different opportunities. Hence, if trade agreements are designed without taking…
Health pandemics affect women and men differently, and they can make the existing gender inequalities much worse. COVID-19 is one such pandemic, which can have substantial gender implications both during and in the post-pandemic world. Its economic…
This chapter provides an overview of the growing influence of both labour standards and gender equality concerns in contemporary trade debates, and in particular how existing FTAs have increasingly accommodated both types of issues. In the following…
In recent years, more and more countries have included different kinds of gender considerations in their trade agreements. Yet many countries have still not signed their very first agreement with a gender equality-related provision. Though most of…