Trade Governance: the Politics of Prosperity, Development and Weaponization

In this paper, Prof. Dr. Amrita Narlikar discusses the foreign policy of Germany and its European partners towards China. This article was republished in Global Policy Blog (4.4.2022) and is also available to read in Hindi.

The WTO has become an almost perfect example of how not to negotiate. In this article, GIGA President Prof. Narlikar identifies three broad categories of bargaining failures and explores the impact of narratives on the course of events, giving us a clear list of dos and don’ts for international negotiation.

In this episode, Amrita Narlikar talks about why the West should engage and cooperate with India more than it is doing now, about the new character of globalised trade, and the unique perspective India brings to its current G20 presidency.

Available to read in English and Spanish languages.

As the strategic value of the region has increased for Europe, the EU is now seeking to renew its partnership with Latin America and the Caribbean. But many of the latter’s governments prefer an active non-alignment in international politics. An EU-LAC summit is planned for July 2023.

Comparing US and European China policies of recent years reveals a widening gap. While the Biden administration’s China policy is fixated on competition and national security, and preoccupied with renewing US global leadership, the EU essentially remains open to cooperation with China.

GIGA President Prof. Amrita Narlikar contributed to “The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence” edited by Prof. Daniel Drezner, Prof. Henry Farrell, and Prof. Abraham Newman with her chapter “Must the Weak Suffer What They Must?”, focusing on the global south.

Prof. Amrita Narlikar argues that to attribute the malaise of trade multilateralism to President Trump's anti-trade policies is to confuse symptom with cause. She shows how a somewhat contained process-related input-legitimacy deficit has ended up getting transformed into a much more expansive output-legitimacy crisis.

In this essay, Prof. Amrita Narlikar discusses the scholarly and policy exchanges on multilateralism reforms against a backdrop of inadequate engagement with the global and diverse heritage of liberalism.

In this paper, Prof. Dr. Amrita Narlikar discusses the foreign policy of Germany and its European partners towards China. This article was republished in Global Policy Blog (4.4.2022) and is also available to read in Hindi.

The WTO has become an almost perfect example of how not to negotiate. In this article, GIGA President Prof. Narlikar identifies three broad categories of bargaining failures and explores the impact of narratives on the course of events, giving us a clear list of dos and don’ts for international negotiation.