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The 2009 Lisbon Treaty transferred the competence over Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policy from the national to the supranational level. This article analyses the impact of this transfer on the content of international investment agreements and, more broadly, the shape of the investment...

The increasing uptake of environmental provisions in preferential trade agreements (PTAs) is well documented, but little is known about why countries prefer certain types of provisions over others. This contribution exploits a fine-grained data-set on environmental provisions in PTAs and...

"Trade-environment scholarship has long been focused on the World Trade Organization (WTO). However, against the backdrop of stalled WTO negotiations, the focus of trade-environment politics is shifting dramatically. In the WTO's shadow, the U.S. has increasingly pursued its environmental...