This course approaches trade politics from international relations perspectives. It provides a set of IR-driven theoretical toolkits to help answer important questions in contemporary trade politics. The course begins with an overview of major issues in global trade politics. It then presents four theoretical approaches to the political economy of trade: preferences, power, domestic and international institutions, and ideas and identity. The course then applies the theories to five important issue areas: i) the WTO, ii) trading with China, iii) economic development, iv) climate change and the environment, v) human rights.