This book explores how the European Union designs its trade policy to face the most recent challenges and to influence global policy issues. It provides with an interdisciplinary perspective, by combining legal, political, and economic approaches. It studies a broad set of trade instruments that are used by the EU in its trade policy, such as: trade agreements, multilateral initiatives, unilateral trade policies, as well as, internal market tools. Therefore, the contributions to this volume present the EUs Trade Policy through different lenses providing a complex view of it.

Wolfgang Weißis Professor of public law, European law and public international law and holds a chair at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer. He is also Senior Fellow at the German Research Institute for Public Administration in Speyer. His research interests pertain to EU and international economic law.
Cornelia Furculitais an Early Stage Researcher within the Horizon 2020 Marie Curie network on EU Trade and Investment Policy (EUTIP) and a Marie Curie Fellow and PhD Candidate at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer. Her main research areas of interest are related to international trade and investment law. 

Introduction: EU Trade Policy Facing Unprecedented Challenges.- Part I.- EU Trade Policy in a Multipolar World: Pursuing WTO Reform and FTAs.- EU Multilateral Trade Policy in a Changing, Multipolar World: The Way Forward.- Tackling Technical Barriers to Trade in EU New Generation FTAs: An Example of Open or Conflicting Regionalism?.- Financial Services Liberalization Under EU FTAs: The Case of Clearing and Settlement Services.- FTA Dispute Settlement Mechanisms: Alternative Fora for Trade DisputesThe Case of CETA and EUJEPA.- Part II.- EU Trade Policy Facing Political Issues: The Rise of Asia, Globalization Critique, Values.- Exploring the Dynamic Nexus Between the European Unions Trade and Foreign Policy Toward East Asia.- EU Trade Policy in a Trade-Skeptic Context.- Non-Economic Values and Objectives in EU Trade Policy: Different Models of Externalization and Enforcement.- Deepening Trade and Fundamental Rights? Harnessing Data ProtectionRights in the Regulatory Cooperation Chapters of EU Trade Agreements.- Part III.- EU Trade Policy Addressing Protectionism: Trade Defence and Security Allegations.- The Devil Is in the Detail: A First Guide on the EUs New Trade Defence Rules.- Are the EUs Trade Defence Instruments WTO Compliant?.- Interpreting Essential Security Exceptions in WTO Law in View of Economic Security Interests.