http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/global-trade Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sat, 26 Sep 2026 01:22:49 -0400 Sat, 26 Sep 2026 01:22:49 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1065/we-need-to-talk-about-lisbon-the-capacity-of-the-european-union-as-a-global-trade-actor By Rob May - The European Commission’s (EC) Directorate-General Trade is one of several that have been subsumed into the remit of ‘external relations’ by the Lisbon Treaty. The effect of the construction of the European Single Market on trade throughout the latter half of the twentieth century has helped define the EU as a significant actor in international relations;3 but to what extent has the Lisbon Treaty, which came into effect in 2009, strengthened or weakened the “actorness” of the EU? This question is particularly difficult to answer with any brevity or parsimony; with... Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:00 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1065/we-need-to-talk-about-lisbon-the-capacity-of-the-european-union-as-a-global-trade-actor http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1079/what-are-the-benefits-and-challenges-of-the-economic-and-monetary-union By Anastasios Vourexakis - The Economic Monetary Union (EMU) is the end point of an ambitious and historic stage of integrated market changes1 that not only challenge the structure and foundation of modern-day liberal capitalism, but also offer – where successful – a wealth of opportunity in the goods, labour and service industries of the European Union. A fiscal extension to the principles of the Schengen Agreement2 of 1985 offered a financial breakthrough where multiple crises during the midand late-1980s offered physical deficit in the sense that unemployment was on the rise and inflation was at a post-war... Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:00 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1079/what-are-the-benefits-and-challenges-of-the-economic-and-monetary-union http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1271/the-g-20-preempts-the-g-8-what-kind-of-world-economic-order By Shalendra D. Sharma - Few would disagree that the most significant development at the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh during September 24-25, 2009 was the formal acknowledgement of the changing of the guards. In the draft communiqué, President Barack Obama declared that from now on, the Group of 20 (G-20) will be the primary organization responsible for coordinating global economic policy. The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was more explicit, noting that “the old system of international economic cooperation is over. The new system, as of today, has begun... The G-20 is now the premier economic organization... Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:00 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1271/the-g-20-preempts-the-g-8-what-kind-of-world-economic-order