Introduction : politics, trade, and the international political economy / David A. Deese -- pt. I. Trade as an "engine" of integration, growth, or inequality? -- Commerce as communication : Montesquieu's view / Randal R. Hendrickson -- Trade, development, and inequality / Christopher Bliss -- Trade networks, regional agreements and growth / Zining Yang and Mark Abdollahian -- pt. II. Domestic politics, development strategy and democracy -- The new politics of the new trade : the political economy of intra-industry trade / Mary Anne Madeira -- From "investor rights" to "sustainable development"? : challenges and innovations in international investment rules / Lyuba Zarsky -- Developing countries and temporary trade barriers / John M. Rothgeb, Jr. -- Agricultural trade and economic development : contradictions and incongruities between law and policy / Gonzalo Villalta Puig and Erik Mitbrodt -- Democracy and trade : which leads and how? / Andrey Tomashevskiy -- pt. III. Regions and regionalism in the lead -- Regionalism's past, present, and future / Greg Anderson -- Governing trade : regional leadership in the Asia Pacific / Deborah Elms -- African regionalism : the complex role of regional trade / Kathleen J. Hancock -- Multilateral institutions and African economic integration / Bernard Hoekman -- The EU, China and trade in 'green' technologies : cooperation and conflict / Maria Garcia -- pt. IV. The global governance of trade : who is accountable and who governs? -- Trade policy review and dispute settlement at the WTO / Marc D. Froese -- Looking back, looking forward : multilateral and regional trade governance / Wei Liang -- Rotating checks and balances in international economic law / Ari Afilalo -- pt. V. Trade as globalization -- "Using ideas strategically" : none-state actors and the politics of trade / Silke Trommer -- Capitalism in large emerging economies and the new global trade order / Christian May and Andreas Nölke -- Food is different : globalization, trade regimes and local food movements -- The political economy of international migration law / Joel P. Trachtman -- pt. VI. The future of trade -- The design of social standards in EU and US preferential trade agreements / Evgeny Postnikov -- Trade and the Internet : policies in the US, the EU and Canada / Susan Ariel Aaronson and Rob Maxim.