The article provides a concise overview of the rules applicable to postal communications at the international level. Particular attention is paid to the regulations of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) of the World Trade Organization (WTO), as...

Digital technologies have profoundly changed not only the ways we create, distribute, access, use and re-use information but also many of the governance structures we had in place. Overall, "older" institutions at all governance levels have grappled and often failed to master the multi-faceted...

The digital economy and digitization in general have long been touted as environmentally sustainable alternatives to physical commercial activity. The truth is more nuanced than that. Nevertheless, a broader framing of sustainable development, as outlined in the UN Sustainable Development Goals,...

The multi-faceted character of the digital challenge combined with the inherent fluidity of digital technologies render the regulatory design that can adequately accommodate them complex and hard to elaborate. In this article, we address one particular aspect of the digital trade discourse and...

The article provides a concise overview of the rules applicable to postal communications at the international level. Particular attention is paid to the regulations of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) of the World Trade Organization (WTO), as...

The chapter starts with a brief look into disruptive technologies and discusses the Internet as a discrete type of general purpose technology (GPT). It then explores the sweeping effects of digitization at different levels of the economy and on trade and trade policies. In order to understand...