1st Edition

Power Shifts and New Blocs in the Global Trading System

By Sanjaya Baru Copyright 2015
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

 As economic powers from the developing world, particularly China, have emerged in the past few decades, their weight has altered the balance in the global trading system. This has presented challenges in the World Trade Organisation (WTO), where the Doha Round of multilateral negotiations has dragged on for more than a dozen years. Frustrated by this stalemate, many countries have sought... Read more
Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Glossary -- Introduction Power shifts and new blocs in global trade -- /Sanjaya Baru -- Chapter One Where is the world trade system heading? -- /Jagdish Bhagwati, Pravin Krishna and Arvind Panagariya -- Chapter Two Ideas and power in contemporary trade development -- /Arvind Subramanian -- Chapter Three Is trade multilateralism being threatened by regionalism? -- /Pascal Lamy -- Chapter Four Trade, development and developmental regionalism -- /Supachai Panitchpakdi -- Chapter Five The geopolitics of the TTIP and the TPP -- /Ashley J. Tellis -- Chapter Six The evolving geo-economics of world trade -- /Braz Baracuhy -- Conclusion Economic shocks and the geo-economics of world trade -- /Sanjaya Baru and Suvi Dogra -- Index.

Biography

Sanjaya Baru is Director for Geo-economics and Strategy, IISS, and Honorary Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi.. Suvi Dogra is Research and Liaison Officer for the Geo-Economics and Strategy Programme, IISS.