1st Edition

International Trade and Neoliberal Globalism Towards Re-peripheralisation in Australia, Canada and Mexico?

240 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

International trade must be analysed within the historical context within which it occurs. Behind the statistics on trade flows lie power structures, class interests and international hierarchies. These change over time and how countries respond to them has critical implications for their citizen’s well-being. In this book, the history of trade in Australia, Canada and Mexico is... Read more

1. Introduction  2. The Political Economy of Australian Development in Long-Run Perspective: From Lucky Country to Banana Republic?  3. The Australia-US Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA): Reinforcing Re-Peripheralisation  4. Contesting Neoliberal Globalism in Australia: Opportunities for Progressive Alternatives  5. The Political Economy of Canadian Development in Long-Run Perspective  6. Canada’s Free-Trade Agreements with the US and Mexico: The Exaggeration of North American Trade  7. Contesting Neoliberal Globalism in Canada: A Sovereign Country in an Interdependent World  8. The Political Economy of Mexican Development in a Long-Run Perspective  9. Mexico and NAFTA: Re-Peripheralisation under the Labour Export-Led Model  10. Contesting Neoliberal Globalism in Mexico: Challenges for the Political and the Social Left  11. Re-Peripheralisation and its Alternatives: Comparative Conclusions

Biography

Paul Bowles is Professor of Economics and International Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada.

Ray Broomhill is Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide, Australia.

Teresa Gutiérrez-Haces is Senior Full Time Research Professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Stephen McBride is Professor of Political Science and Director at the Centre for Global Political Economy, Simon Fraser University, Canada.