1st Edition
The Making of a World Trading Power The European Economic Community (EEC) in the GATT Kennedy Round Negotiations (1963–67)
By Lucia Coppolaro
Copyright 2013
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Following its foundation in 1957, the European Economic Community set about establishing itself as a major player on the world stage. One of the first key arenas in which the new organisation began to make its presence felt was the GATT negotiations that took place between 1963 and 1967, known as the Kennedy Round. Through a reconstruction of these on-going negotiations, this book charts the... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Kennedy’s initiative for a new GATT round: liberalizing international trade and strengthening the Atlantic alliance; The EEC’s answer to the US proposal: accepting the round while defending its regionalism; Devising the rule of the Kennedy round; The regional crisis in a multilateral context; The EEC and negotiations in the industrial sector: enhancing freer trade; Negotiations in agriculture: in the shadow of the Common Agricultural Policy; The final bargain: setting the tone of European regionalism in global trade; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Lucia Coppolaro is post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. Her research interests focus on the economic and political history of contemporary Europe, the history of international relations since 1945 and the history and political economics of international trade. She has written widely on GATT and European Union history and has published articles in International History Review and Journal of European Integration History.
