International Trade Relations

By the end of this postgraduate degree programme, students will have received advanced and multidisciplinary training in the area of world trade relations involving nation-states, international bodies and organizations, and all the legal-economic aspects of the internationalisation process that of course trade relations themselves benefit from.

Students’ training pathway has therefore been mapped out into three major areas for them to gain a better understanding of techniques, legal knowledge and strategy on how to protect investments and enable trade activities in foreign markets, the principles as well as the rules that shape international trade, and particularly those of the OMC system and the internal European market.

In addition to three major areas that students will have to follow through, such as international trade, history and linguistics, there is also a whole range of other topics and issues to study in more detail. Postgraduates will thus be enabled to plan, research and assess trade activities in terms of:

• business strategy;
• local development policies;
• public and private business initiatives seeking to improve international trade;
• economic competitiveness;
• legal technicalities to deal with, so as to encourage international trade;
• interpretation and enforcement of legal provisions governing commercial relations;
• the assessment and implementation of legal devices for the internationalisation of businesses;
• the evaluation, selection and development of strategies and policies as to how legal devices can be used to promote and internationalise sustainable bodies and organizations from both the public and private sector.
• paying close attention to financial and economic factors in the global market, along with the main driving forces behind modern history, globalisation, the economic process and its development, and the geopolitical players that shape world trade relations, as far as language, history, and political science are all concerned.