This seminal study by Richard N. Gardner examines the economic diplomacy between the United States and the United Kingdom in the years following World War II. The book analyzes how both nations collaborated to rebuild a stable and cooperative system of multilateral trade. Gardner explores key negotiations, policy debates, and institutional developments that shaped the postwar economic order, in…
The articles in this collection represent a set of penetrating analyses of aspects of the negotiations underway, as well as reform proposals and adjustment processes to which CARICOM countries have been, and will be subjected for the foreseeable future. Collectively, they consider the roles of the political economist, small State diplomat, development journalist and non-State actors. They look …
The relations between ASEAN and China occupy a unique and important position in the foreign relations of the Asia-Pacific region. China and Southeast Asia's political, strategic and economic importance in the realm of international relations has been transformed by the region's unprecedented economic growth, unexpected financial crisis, and turbulent political changes.
This book is a comprehensive reference book and commentary on basic documents about relations between the EU and the People's Republic of China from 1949 to the present. It contains all significant official and unofficial documents in English and Chinese about EU-China relations since the founding of the PRC in 1949. Since the opening-up of China in 1979, and especially after the establishment …
The Silk Road Trap is the first book to expose just how risky this uneven partnership is for Europe. In it, leading expert on Asian affairs Jonathan Holslag, argues that Europe must reduce its reliance on China and work on building a stronger and more sustainable European economic model. By revealing the political aspirations and economic strategy behind the new Silk Road, he lays out its impli…
The International trade and Business Law Annual is the official publication of the Australian institute of Foreign and Comparative Law. The Annual includes leading articles, case notes, and comments, as well as book reviews dealing with international trade and business law issues.
The first section of this 2005 book presents a rudimentary and intuitive introduction to the economics of preferential trade agreements. The following chapters present the author's theoretical and empirical research on a number of questions surrounding the issue of preferential trade agreements including the design of necessarily welfare-improving trade blocs, the quantitative (econometric) eva…
European economic integration has gathered new momentum since Member States of the European Community (EC) signed the Single European Act in February 1986 aimed at creating a region with no internal frontiers and with free movement of goods and services, capital, labour and the professions by the end of the year 1992. Since then, numerous decisions have been made by EC heads of governments, the…
This book contains about: 1. Regional assessment of the Uruguay round: Implications for the private sector 2. Regional initiatives for investment cooperation in the Pacific region 3. Issues in regional trade liberalization 4. New issues in GATT.
This book contains about: 1. Trade and environment: Strengthening complementarities 2. Trade and environment: How real is the debate? 3. Breaking the deadlock: A positive agenda on trade, environment, and development 4. The WTO dispute settlement system etc.