Trade Politics

by Hocking,Brian; Hocking,Brian

• ISBN13: 9780415193566
• ISBN10: 0415193567
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Leading experts provide a clear overview of the evolving environment of trade politics and the current issues surrounding its development. Trade politics is a hot topic this year, particularly since the changes in world economy following the Asian crisis. Written with students in mind this book includes chapters on: *Trade and security *Ideas and policies *Intellectual property *The environment *Regions in world trade *Trade organizations *States and sovereignty

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Notes on contributors	xi
Preface	xiii
List of abbreviations	xvii
Introduction: Trade politics: environments, agendas and process	1	(20)
Brian Hocking
PART I Environments and issues	21	(122)
Introduction	23	(2)
The multilateral trading system into the new millennium	25	(15)
Stephen Woolcock
Ideas and policies	40	(12)
Bruce E. Moon
Agricultural trade policy	52	(15)
David N. Balaam
International trade in services	67	(12)
Michel Kostecki
Intellectual property	79	(17)
Ann Capling
International trade and security: the case of encryption	96	(15)
Olivia Bosch
International trade and workers' rights: more than a conditional link?	111	(17)
Gijsbert Van Liemt
International trade and the environment	128	(15)
Duncan Brack
PART II Actors and processes	143	(82)
Introduction	145	(2)
Firms and governments in international trade	147	(15)
Steven Mcguire
The World Trade Organization and civil society	162	(17)
Jan Aart Scholte
Robert O'Brien
Marc Williams
New issues, new actors in EU commercial policy making	179	(15)
Michelle Cloutier
States, sovereignty and trade	194	(14)
Geoffrey Allen Pigman
The World Trade Organization	208	(17)
Robert Wolfe
PART III Regions in world trade	225	(79)
Introduction	227	(2)
NAFTA and the politics of regional trade	229	(17)
Andrew F. Cooper
Towards a political economy of trade in Africa: states, companies and civil societies	246	(15)
Timothy M. Shaw
Janis van der Westhuizen
The Asia-Pacific	261	(14)
John Ravenhill
The European Union	275	(15)
Michael Smith
A free trade area of the Americas in 2005?	290	(14)
Paulo S. Wrobel
Index	304