The Politics of International Trade in the 21st Century Actors, Issues and Regional Dynamics

by Kelly, Dominic; Grant, Wyn

• ISBN13: 9781403904843
• ISBN10: 1403904847
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-13
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Reflecting current debates and concerns within academic and policy circles, this substantial edited book provides wide-ranging and in-depth commentary on contemporary developments in the politics of international trade. The book is divided into three major sections dealing, in order, with key actors (states and firms, the WTO, civil society), issues (security, agriculture, services, intellectual property environment, labour standards) and regional dynamics (focusing on regions and regionalism, and on trade politics in major states in each of these) in international trade.

Author Biography

Dominic Kelly is in the Department of Political and International Studies at the University of Warwick.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Notes on Contributors	viii
Introduction: Trade Politics in Context	1	(12)
Dominic Kelly
Wyn Grant
Part I Actors
The World Trade Organization and the Regulation of International Trade	13	(17)
Rorden Wilkinson
Civil Society and the World Trading System	30	(17)
Marc Williams
Business and Government in International Policymaking: The Transatlantic Business Dialogue as An Emerging Business Style?	47	(24)
David Coen
Wyn Grant
Part II Issues
Trade, Security and Globalization	71	(21)
Dominic Kelly
Agricultural Trade	92	(15)
Wyn Grant
The Political Economy of International Trade and the Environment	107	(23)
Peter Newell
From Marrakech to Doha and Beyond: The Tortuous Progress of the Contemporary Trade and Labour Standards Debate	130	(14)
Nigel Haworth
Stephen Hughes
GATS and The Politics of `Trade in Services'	144	(20)
Jarrod Wiener
Intellectual Property Rights	164	(21)
Christopher May
Part III Regional Dynamics
The New Politics of Trade in the Americas	185	(19)
Nicola Phillips
The United States in International Trade Politics: Liberal Leader or Heavy-Handed Hegemon?	204	(17)
Tony Porter
The Politics of Trade in Brazil	221	(13)
Pedro da Motta Veiga
European Union Trade Policy: Domestic Institutions and Systemic Factors	234	(18)
Stephen Woolcock
German Trade Policy: An Oxymoron?	252	(21)
Andreas Falke
The Political Economy of African Trade in the Twenty-first Century	273	(22)
Mills Soko
The Contradictions and Continuities of South African Trade Policy	295	(14)
Ian Taylor
From APEC to ASEAN+3?: The United States--China--Japan Triangle and the Geopolitical Economy of Trade in the Asia-Pacific	309	(21)
Mark T. Berger
The Political Economy of Japanese Trade Policy	330	(16)
Dominic Kelly
China's Trade Policy	346	(21)
Shaun Breslin
Index	367