Special Issue - New Perspectives on Global Value Chains: Bringing Institutions Back In

This special issue of Global Policy examines the role of domestic and international institutions in the study of global value chains. The contributions focus on the multiple causal pathways linking global value chains and these institutions. They underscore that the politics engendered by global value chains, as well as how they evolve, can only be fully understood by paying attention to the contexts in which they are embedded.

Special Issue Articles

Introduction: Bringing Institutions Back in the Study of Global Value Chains - Jappe Eckhardt and Arlo Poletti

Domestic Institutions and Global Value Chains: Offshoring in Germany's Core Industrial Sectors - Ferdi De Ville

When the State Brings Itself Back into GVC: The Case of the Indonesian Palm Oil Pledge - Ahmad Dermawan and Otto Hospes

Global Value Chains and the Governance of ‘Embedded’ Food Commodities: The Case of Soy - Tony Heron, Patricia Prado and Chris West

The Globalization of Production and the Politics of Dispute Initiation at the World Trade Organization - Aydin B. Yildirim, Arlo Poletti, J. Tyson Chatagnier and Dirk De Bièvre

Global Value Chains and Product Differentiation: Changing the Politics of Trade - Leonardo Baccini and Andreas Dür

Global Value Chains, Firm Preferences and the Design of Preferential Trade Agreements - Jappe Eckhardt and Kelley Lee