EU-US Privacy Shield Agreement and Domestic Policy Direction

The future direction of EU Data Protection and privacy regulation

The information society has evolved in ways that were not anticipated when the existing Directive was adopted. Attitudes, behaviours and expectations concerning privacy are changing rapidly; the regulatory framework needs to keep pace if it is to retain its legitimacy. And these changes will only accelerate over the next 15 years. It is already clear that we need to fundamentally re-think the p...

Cyber-sword v. cyber-shield: The Dynamics of US Cybersecurity Policy Priorities

Recent efforts to address cybersecurity risks have focused on leveraging the immense technical capacity of the American intelligence community to protect the nation’s information technology infrastructure, and to project power in a new domain. This creates a potential conflict of interest: the joint duties of breaking into foreign systems while securing our own raises questions about competing ...

Human Rights in US Foreign Policy

EU External Trade Policy

The external trade policy of the EU impinges on nearly one fifth of world trade. Hence, an understanding of the principles and practice of the Union's trade policy, the Common Commercial Policy (CCP), is of vital importance to any student of the global trade environment. Ongoing research on the CCP has addressed both broad themes and detailed aspects of the Union's trade policy provides insight...

Including non-trade concerns: the environment in EU and US agricultural policy

The challenge for any trade agreement is to be adaptable enough to enable countries to address legitimate non-trade concerns (NTC) while being restrictive enough to limit harm to other countries and to assist the creation of free international markets. In this paper, we focus on how environmental NTC have been addressed in agricultural policy in the USA and the European Union (EU) and the resul...