International Trade (incl. trade agreements & tariffs) Books

New and Published Books

1. Employment, Inequality and Globalization

   A Continuous Concern

   Edited by Rolph van der Hoeven

   The nature of globalization and the fallout from the international financial crisis have brought profound changes to societies and economies around the world. This book documents that, over the last two decades, the growth of nonstandard and informal employment has led to greater inequalities. This...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
2. Trade Remedies

   A Development Perspective

   By Asif Qureshi

   Series: Routledge Research in International Economic Law

   Under the framework of the WTO Member States are allowed to respond to three types of imports which harm or have the potential of harming a domestic industry. The imports in question are those which either involve a State subsidy, for example an export subsidy from the State where the goods are...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. International Trade and Global Development (Routledge Revivals)

   Essays in honour of Jagdish Bhagwati

   By Ad Koekkoek

   Fluctuations in the level and pattern of international trade have a profound effect on the economies of less developed countries. This book explores the relationship between international trade and globl development through a series of essays which relate advances in trade theory to key issues in...

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
4. Governance and Knowledge

   The Politics of Foreign Investment, Technology and Ideas

   Edited by Helge Hveem, Carl Henrik Knutsen

   Series: Routledge/GARNET series

   This book examines the politics of technology, and provides a detailed analysis of developments and debates within the European Union, international trade and governance. An important empirical contribution to the literature on the relations between politics and technology, this volume contains...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Development of Intellectual Property Regimes in the Arabian Gulf States

   Infidels at the Gates

   By David Price

   Series: Routledge Research in Intellectual Property

   This book examines the development of national legislative regimes for the protection of intellectual property rights in the Arabian Gulf states: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. David Price analyses IP rights in these states in the context of WTO...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
6. International Economics (Routledge Revivals)

   By David Gowland

   Most of the existing textbooks on international economics - a widely taught and ighly popular subject - are long and too detailed and advanced for many students. This book, first published in 1983, and written by a respected leading authority, presents the essentials of the topic in a simple and...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
7. Russian Multinationals

   From Regional Supremacy to Global Lead

   By Andrei Panibratov

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

   Russian multinationals are playing an increasingly important role in the world economy, particularly in some key sectors such as oil, gas and metallurgy. At the same time, Russian multinationals differ in many respects from multinationals from other countries in that they often receive special...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
8. Sustainable Development and Free Trade

   Institutional Approaches

   By Shawkat Alam

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   Examining institutions rather than themes, this critical book provides a comprehensive survey of the inter-relationship between trade-induced economic growth and the environment and its impact on the global quest for sustainable development. Focusing in particular on the interests and concerns of...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
9. Thirty Years of China's Reform

   Edited by Wang Mengkui

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

   China Development Research Foundation is one of the leading economic think tanks in China, where many of the details of China’s economic reform have been formulated. Its work and publications therefore provide great insights into what the Chinese themselves think about economic reform and how it...

   Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Political Economy of European Union Competition Policy

    A Case Study of the Telecommunications Industry

    By Tuna Baskoy

    Series: New Political Economy

    In the European Union (EU), competition policy occupies a central place amongst other EU public policies and is the first truly supranational public policy regulating market competition. One of the stated objectives of EU competition policy is to prevent excessive concentration of economic power in...

    Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge