Part I. Politics and culture.- Chapter 1. Culture in External Relations: The EU and Its International Economic Agreements.- Chapter 2. Beyond Trade - The Politics of Trade Agreements and Interstate Competition: Geoeconomics as a Basis for EU and US Preferential Trade Agreements.- Chapter 3. Geopolitics, Geo-Economics and the EU Trade Policy: The Relationship with ASEAN as a Test Case.

- Part II. Investment and trade.- Chapter 4. From Investment Protection to Sustainability (via a Multilateral Investment Court): The EU and a New Universal Model for IIAs?.- Chapter 5. New Wine in Old Wineskins? Climate Cases and the Energy Charter Treaty.- Chapter 6. Unsustainable Investment: Scoping Expropriation without Compensation.

- Chapter 7. Screening Foreign Direct Investment in Europe: Having a Tiger by the Tail?.- Chapter 8. Trade in Services and Mutual Recognition of Professional Qualifications in the EU and International Systems: Multilateralism à la Carte?.- Chapter 9. The EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: Customary International Law?.- Chapter 10. The EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Technology Council: Shifting Multilateralism through Bilateralism and Institutions?.

- Part III. Foundational rights and procedures.- Chapter 11. TRIPS+: IP Privileges for Pharmaceuticals and Agricultural Chemicals: EU and US treaties.- Chapter 12. Compulsory Licences during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A European and International Perspective.- Chapter 13. The 'Crowd-out Effect' of GI provisions in EU FTAs: Cheeses Exported to South Korea.

- Chapter 14. The Evolutionary Process of Tax Treaties and its Interplay with EU Law: A Critical Analysis.- Chapter 15. Data Flow v Data Protection: Achieving Cross-Broder Harmonisation via EU Horizontal Clauses?.- Chapter 16. Non-Economic Conditionality for Comprehensive EU International Economic Agreements?.- Chapter 17. The Singapore Convention on Mediation: National Implementation Practices and EU Prospects.

- Conclusion.- Index.