Recent advances in quantifying the effect of services sector bindings in trade agreements based on the extent of reduction of “water in the GATS” – measured as the difference in openness under applied services trade regimes as measured by the Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI) and...

Andrew Moracsik, scholar at Princeton University is one of important leading and heard voices in European Union (EU) and its integration progress. His main work is dedicated on the study of European integration outcomes. In his defense of liberal intergovernmentalist theory, he emphasizes in...

This article challenges "The Liberal Peace" described in work by Michael Doyle from three standpoints. First, it questions whether the statistical tests (which were performed and published by scholars other than Doyle) actually test any coherent theory of peace or conflict. Second, it questions...