The European Union is the world's largest trading entity and donor of official development aid, and its Common Commercial Policy is one of the oldest and most integrated common policies. This accessible and up-to-date new text provides the first comprehensive assessment of EU trade policy, its relationship to other policies, and of the EU's multilevel policy-making and international bargaining in this area.

Judicial politics has emerged as a central feature of the multilateral trading system alongside a steep decline in the World Trade Organization's ability to deliver negotiated trade liberalization. This book advances innovative arguments and presents original evidence to shed light on the important and surprisingly under-researched question of whether, and how, judicial politics has affected the prospects for cooperation in the WTO through multilateral trade rounds.

Judicial politics has emerged as a central feature of the multilateral trading system alongside a steep decline in the World Trade Organization's ability to deliver negotiated trade liberalization. This book advances innovative arguments and presents original evidence to shed light on the important and surprisingly under-researched question of whether, and how, judicial politics has affected the prospects for cooperation in the WTO through multilateral trade rounds.

The European Union is the world's largest trading entity and donor of official development aid, and its Common Commercial Policy is one of the oldest and most integrated common policies. This accessible and up-to-date new text provides the first comprehensive assessment of EU trade policy, its relationship to other policies, and of the EU's multilevel policy-making and international bargaining in this area.