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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).
List of Treaties
Treaties (version 2.2)
List of treaties (CSV) List of treaties (XLSX)
List of treaties in dyadic form (CSV) List of treaties in dyadic form (XLSX)
Current version: December 2023.
Withdrawals (version 2.2)
List of withdrawals in dyadic form (CSV) List of withdrawals in dyadic form (XLSX)
Current version: December 2023.
Indices
DESTA Indices (version 2.2)
Please cite as:
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.
R Package for DESTA
Download the complete R package for DESTA (version 2.1) here
Credit and thanks to @pachadotdev for writing this package.
Cooperation projects
Global Value Chains (In cooperation with the OECD.)
Coming soon.
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.)
Downloads archive
DESTA (version 2.1)
DESTA (version 2.0)
DESTA (version 1.6)
Current version: December 2023.