My research investigates the EU’s trade-climate policies, namely climate-related provisions in EU preferential trade agreements and recent unilateral instruments (CBAM/EUDR). I also work on the intersection of international climate and economic governance, namely, linkages between the Paris Agreement and trade policy.
More broadly, I’m interested in international cooperation, international institutions, EU trade policy and politics, climate change, planetary commons, institutional linkages, questions around international legitimacy, global political economy and mixed methods research.
In my PhD, I analysed trade and sustainable development (TSD) provisions in the EU’s preferential trade agreements, with a particular focus on climate aspects and the drive for more robust enforcement. In my postdoctoral research, I have extended this focus to the EU’s unilateral trade-environmental measures, specifically, the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) and the regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR) from the perspective of exporting countries, especially in the Global South.
These measures have triggered immense political contestation, which I explore through a mixed methods, cross-domain approach that moves beyond surface-level observations (e.g., expected economic impact and anecdotal evidence) to chart the nuances in third countries’ perceptions and contestation of these policies.
