Projects
To Discriminate or Not to Discriminate? The Politics of Selective Trade Protection in the 21st Century. University of Antwerp
Maintaining Multilateralism: The Politics of Dispute Initiation at the World Trade Organization. University of Antwerp
Embedding free trade. The regulation of international trade in Belgium (1860-1865): commercial treaties, professionalization and power Ghent University
The project seeks to fill the gap in the literature on Belgian trade policy (1860-1865). In complete disproportion to its political, demographic and military weight, Belgium was one of the driving forces behind the creation of a European-wide network of free trade agreements. These commercial agreements moreover comprised clauses with considerable importance for the world today. Nevertheless, so far legal historians have not studied the ...
The Transparency-Secrecy Trade-off in European Union Trade Policy: Explaining Informalisation and Transparency in EU Decision-making on International Negotiations. KU Leuven
There exists today a wide-spread belief that decision-making in the European Union (EU) mainly takes place behind closed-doors, in secret backrooms and informal conversation in the corridors. In the case of EU trade policy, a perception of secretiveness due to the widespread use of informality has sparked extensive criticism from both public and parliamentary actors. At the same time however, the European Commission (Commission) as the main ...
What comes to the surface in multilateral trade governance? A comparative investigation of the politicaleconomic determinants of disputes initiation in the World Trade Organization (WTO). University of Antwerp
Exploring Conditions for Politicization: A Comparative Analysis of European Union Trade Agreement Negotiations. University of Antwerp
Research in the domain of EU trade policy University of Antwerp
A comparative analysis of interest groups in European trade policy towards China. University of Antwerp
Geopoliticization of trade - A new rationale behind the EU’s China policy? Ghent University
Since the adoption of the EU Global Strategy of 2016, most authors agree that the EU has reached a turning point, moving toward a geopolitical union. Indeed, the mission statement of the European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen in 2019 to lead a ‘geopolitical commission’ seems to affirm this perception of a pragmatic shift in the EU's external posture. This recent trend has opened up a significant debate within academic and policy ...