Positive Integration - EU and WTO Approaches Towards the "Trade and" Debate

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction—Positive Integration: EU and WTO Approaches Towards the ‘Trade and’ Debate

   • Rike Krämer-Hoppe

   Pages 1-15

3. Bilateral Positive Integration: Different Strategies for Regulatory Cooperation in the TTIP

   • Christine Wieck, Bettina Rudloff

   Pages 17-34

4. The Role of Non-tariff Measures in the Agri-Food Sector: Positive or Negative Instruments for Trade?

   • Fabio G. Santeramo, Emilia Lamonaca

   Pages 35-59

5. EU and WTO Regulatory Approaches to Renewable Energy Subsidies: Negative and Positive Integration

   • Ilaria Espa, Gracia Marín Durán

   Pages 61-86

6. Trade and Environment in the EU and WTO: Legitimacy, Proportionality and Institutional Power Play

   • Emily Reid

   Pages 87-119

7. Adjudication and Positive Integration: The Role of the European Court of Justice and the Dispute Settlement Body in the “Trade and Environment” Debate

   • Rike Krämer-Hoppe

   Pages 121-144

8. Myths and Virtues of Positive and Negative Integration: Some Concluding Remarks

   • Piet Eeckhout

   Pages 145-147

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.

• Negative integration
• Positive integration
• Trade and Environment
• WTO
• EU
• Food safety standards
• Trade and non-tariff measures
• Green subsidies
• Role of courts
• Legitimacy in international law

• Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

  Rike Krämer-Hoppe

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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