Please cite the data as: Dür, Andreas, Leonardo Baccini and Manfred Elsig. 2014. “The Design of International Trade Agreements: Introducing a New Database”. The Review of International Organizations, 9(3): 353-375, Version 2.2 (2023).
Treaties (version 2.2)
Current version: December 2023.
Withdrawals (version 2.2)
Current version: December 2023.
DESTA (version 2.2)
Current version: December 2023.
DESTA Indices (version 2.2)
For the Depth Indexes: "Dür, A., Baccini L., and Elsig M. 2014. The Design of International Trade Agreements: Introducing a New Dataset. The Review of International Organizations, 9(3): 353-375.", Version 2.2 (2023).
For the Flexibility Indexes: "Baccini L., Dür A., and Elsig M. 2015. The Politics of Trade Agreement Design: Revisiting the Depth-Flexibility Nexus. International Studies Quarterly, 59(4): 765-775."
For the Strength of Dispute Settlement Mechanism Indexes: "Allee T., and Elsig M. 2016. Why Do Some International Institutions Contain Strong Dispute Settlement Provisions? New Evidence from Preferential Trade Agreements. The Review of International Organizations, 11(1): 89-120."
Current version: December 2023.
Download the complete R package for DESTA (version 2.1) here
Credit and thanks to @pachadotdev for writing this package.
Global Value Chains (In cooperation with the OECD.)
Non-Trade Issues (Please cite Milewicz et al., 2018.)
Environmental Issues (Please cite Morin et al., 2018.)
Civil, Political, Economic and Social Issues (Please cite Lechner, 2016.)
Intellectual Property Rights (Please cite Surbeck, 2019.)
Intellectual Property Rights: TRIPS-plus (Please cite Morin and Surbeck, 2019.)
DESTA (version 2.1)
DESTA (version 2.0)
DESTA (version 1.6)
Current version: December 2023.
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