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New Trends in Global Trade Governance

Asignatura del Bachelor's Degree in International Business and Marketing

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Code:
40315

Créditos:
4 ECTS

Language:
English

Type of subject: Elective

Description

Introduction to EU trade policy, set in the current global context. Identifying institutional actors involved in decision making processes, revealing the tensions between different member states and paying critical attention to the more delicate aspects of this policy, such as the issue of political conditionality.

Learning Outcomes

Understand current tensions and challenges in global trade governance by analysing the main agreements between the EU and its trading partners from a critical overview. Compare and contrast the trade policies of the leading actors at the moment (European Union, United States, China, etc.).

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Lecturer Role

Joan Pere Plaza

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Qualifications:

PhD in Political Science (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Biography:

Joan Pere Plaza Font’s teaching and research work spans several EU-related topics, in particular interregionalism, European institutions and, more recently, EU trade policy, an area in which he currently coordinates the project Knowledge and Innovation for the European Trade Challenges (Jean Monnet Module, Project No. 621100-EPP-1-2020-1-ES-EPPJMO-MODULE).

Deeply concerned with his teaching duties and pedagogical innovation, he is a scientific adviser to SimLearn, a Belgium-based spin-off that creates innovative online storytelling tools to unpack the functioning of EU political systems.

In his spare time, he grows tomatoes and aubergines in his urban vegetable garden and spends hours baking homemade bread.