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Strategic Arena Switching in International Trade Negotiations book cover

1st Edition

Strategic Arena Switching in International Trade Negotiations

By Joachim Becker, Wolfgang Blass Copyright 2007
302 Pages
by Routledge

302 Pages
by Routledge

302 Pages
by Routledge
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Since the 1970s global rule-making with respect to international trade has increased in importance. Political and academic attention has been focused either on global institutions like the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO and UN organisations, or on regional blocs like the EU or NAFTA. As negotiations take place in different international arenas, these arenas themselves take on added strategic... Read more
Contents: Foreword; Introduction, Joachim Becker and Wolfgang Blaas; Political and Institutional Manoeuvres in International Trade Negotiations: The United States and the Doha development round, Nitsan Chorev; European Union Trade Politics: Pursuit of Neo-Mercantilism in Different fora?, Werner Raza; India and the WTO, Muchkund Dubey; China's Economic Development, Trade and Foreign Investment, Weiyu Gao and Xiaoling Ji; Back from the future? Brazil's international trade in the early 21st century, Luiz A.E. Faria; Join my value chain! South Africa's Regional Trade Policy, Gottfried Wellmer; Turkey: WTO Negotiations in the Shadow of the European Union, Gaye Yilmaz; Conclusions: Doha round and forum-switching, Joachim Becker and Wolfgang Blaas; Index.

Biography

Wolfgang Blaas is Associate Professor of Economics at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria. He teaches international economics, economic policy and regional economics. His current research interests are global governance, EU enlargement, and regional integration in Europe. He has published several books that deal with these topics.

Joachim Becker is Associate Professor of Economics at Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and Guest Professor of International Economics at the University of Vienna, Austria. He specializes in issues of international political economy, regional integration and theory of regulation and has published widely in these areas.

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