Author : Shintaro Hamanaka
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,74 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9814460419
This book investigates the appropriate relationship between regionalism and multilateralism, with a special reference to recent FTAs in Asia. It is undeniable that past trade multilateralism-regionalism debates centered on the trade-in-goods aspect.
Author : Debra P. Steger
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 48,23 MB
Release : 2009-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1554581745
Two high-level commissions—the Sutherland report in 2004, and the Warwick Commission report in 2007—addressed the future of the World Trade Organization and made proposals for incremental reform. This book goes further; it explains why institutional reform of the WTO is needed at this critical juncture in world history and provides innovative, practical proposals for modernizing the WTO to enable it to respond to the challenges of the twenty-first century. Contributors focus on five critical areas: transparency, decision- and rule-making procedures, internal management structures, participation by non-governmental organizations and civil society, and relationships with regional trade agreements. Co-published with the International Development Research Centre and the Centre for International Governance Innovation
Author : Guido Glania
Publisher : CEPS
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 10,8 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9290796030
This new book highlights the multifaceted effects of regional trade agreements and outlines the strategic options for EU trade policy. It points out what is new about this most recent phase of regionalism and analyzes the effects on economic welfare and trade transaction costs. The authors draw upon elements of game theory to explore a self-reinforcing mechanism that is resulting in a potentially damaging race for markets. They focus in particular on the multiple impacts of regionalism on the WTO and the multilateral trading order. The book arrives at an opportune time, as the Doha Round is reaching a critical phase.
Author : Thilo Rensmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 25,80 MB
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 3319566636
This book provides an in-depth analysis of "Mega-Regionals", the new generation of trans-regional free-trade agreements (FTAs) currently under negotiation, and their effect on the future of international economic law. The main focus centres on the EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), but the findings are also applicable to similar agreements under negotiation, such as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).The specific features of Mega-Regional Trade Agreements raise a number of issues with respect to their potential effect on the current system of international trade and investment law. These include the consequences of Mega-Regionals for the most-favoured-nation (MFN) principle, their relation to the multilateral system of the World Trade Organization (WTO), their democratic legitimacy and their interaction with existing bilateral investment treaties (BITs).The book is intended for academics and practitioners working in the field of international economic law.
Author : Élise Féron
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 39,52 MB
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3847414976
The book critically analyzes the ongoing changes in the regional, intra-regional, and global dynamics of cooperation, from a multi-disciplinary and pluralist perspective. It is based on the insight that in a post-hegemonic world the formation of regions and the process of globalization can be largely disconnected from the orbit of the US, and that a plurality of power and worldviews has replaced US hegemony. In spite of these changes, most existing analyses of current changes in the world order still rely upon Western-centered approaches, and Westphalian thinking. Against this backdrop, the book proposes to advance a truly global IR understanding of the post-hegemonic world, and weaves together the pluralist and multi-disciplinary perspectives of scholars located all around the world.
Author : Pasha L. Hsieh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 36,67 MB
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108845606
Provides the first systematic analysis of new Asian regionalism as a paradigm shift in international economic law.
Author : Jeffrey A. Frankel
Publisher : Peterson Institute
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 36,87 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780881322026
Covers trends from 1957 to 1995.
Author : Rohini Acharya
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 21,73 MB
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107161649
This volume contains a collection of studies examining trade-related issues negotiated in regional trade agreements (RTAs) and how RTAs are related to the WTO's rules. While previous work has focused on subsets of RTAs, these studies are based on what is probably the largest dataset used to date, and highlight key issues that have been negotiated in all RTAs notified to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). New rules within RTAs are compared to rules agreed upon by WTO members. The extent of their divergences and the potential implications for parties to RTAs, as well as for WTO members that are not parties to RTAs, are examined. This volume makes an important contribution to the current debate on the role of the WTO in regulating international trade and how WTO rules relate to new rules being developed by RTAs.
Author : Leal-Arcas, Rafael
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 10,22 MB
Release : 2010-05-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 1781000778
This timely book examines international trade and investment law at various levels of governance, including unilateral, bilateral, regional, and multilateral arrangements.
Author : Bernard M. Hoekman
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 46,56 MB
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821360647
How can international trade agreements promote development and how can rules be designed to benefit poor countries? Can multilateral trade cooperation in the World Trade Organization (WTO) help developing countries create and strengthen institutions and regulatory regimes that will enhance the gains from trade and integration into the global economy? And should this even be done? These are questions that confront policy makers and citizens in both rich and poor countries, and they are the subject of Economic Development and Multilateral Trade Cooperation. This book analyzes how the trading system could be made more supportive of economic development, without eroding the core WTO functions.
