Power In North South Trade Negotiations

Author : Peg Murray-Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351588867

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Power in North-South Trade Negotiations by Peg Murray-Evans Pdf

Advancing a constructivist conceptual approach, this book explains the surprising outcome of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union and developing countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (the ACP countries). Despite the EU’s huge market power, it had limited success with the EPAs; an outcome that confounds materialist narratives equating trade power with market size. Why was the EU unable to fully realise its prospectus for trade and regulatory liberalisation through the EPA negotiations? Emphasising the role of social legitimacy in asymmetrical North–South trade negotiations, Murray-Evans sets the EPAs within the broader context of an institutionally complex global trade regime and stresses the agency of both weak and strong actors in contesting trade rules and practices across multilateral, regional and bilateral negotiating settings. Empirical chapters approach the EPA process from different institutional angles to explain and map the genesis, design, promotion and ultimately limited impact of the EU’s ambitious prospectus for the EPAs. This volume will be particularly relevant to students and scholars of international trade and development and the EU as an international actor, as well as those researching international political economy, African politics and international trade law.

Author : Janette Mark,Gerald K. Helleiner,North-South Institute (Ottawa, Ont.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : UCSD:31822007975261

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Trade in Services by Janette Mark,Gerald K. Helleiner,North-South Institute (Ottawa, Ont.) Pdf

Author : Clair Gammage
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-26
Category : LAW
ISBN : 9781784719623

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North-South Regional Trade Agreements as Legal Regimes by Clair Gammage Pdf

This book offers a critical reflection of the North-South regional trade agreements (RTAs), known as the Economic Partnership Agreements, negotiated between the EU and the African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries. Conceiving of regions as legal regimes, Clair Gammage highlights the challenges facing developing countries when negotiating RTAs with developed countries and interrogates the assumption that these agreements will and can promote sustainable development through trade.

Author : Amrita Narlikar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108415569

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Poverty Narratives and Power Paradoxes in International Trade Negotiations and Beyond by Amrita Narlikar Pdf

Poverty narratives have become an unprecedented source of empowerment. Yet, indiscriminate misuse risks devastating repercussions for the weakest members of society.

Author : Jock A. Finlayson,Ann Weston,North-South Institute (Ottawa, Ont.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Commercial policy
ISBN : UCSD:31822015128630

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The GATT, Middle Powers and the Uruguay Round by Jock A. Finlayson,Ann Weston,North-South Institute (Ottawa, Ont.) Pdf

Author : Sanoussi Bilal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317177708

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Asymmetric Trade Negotiations by Sanoussi Bilal Pdf

The slow pace of the Doha Round has boosted the proliferation of regional and bilateral trade agreements. Paradoxically, the more powerful actors, the US and the European Union, who at the same time have benefited the most from the multilateral system, have also been engaged in bilateral and regional negotiations in order to sign WTO-plus agreements with developing countries. Combining a clear theoretical exposition with systematic cross-regional analysis, 'Asymmetric Trade Negotiations' offers a coherent picture of strategic, design and political economy aspects of North-South trade negotiation processes, from African, Asian and Latin American perspectives. Skilled area specialists gather to provide negotiators and policy makers in the South with recommendations, best practices, and benchmarks and contribute to the understanding of these recent processes.

Author : J. P. Singh
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 080479412X

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Sweet Talk by J. P. Singh Pdf

Developed nations strive to create the impression that their hearts and pockets bleed for the developing world. Yet, the global North continues to offer unfavorable trade terms to the global South. Truly fair trade would make reciprocal concessions to developing countries while allowing them to better their own positions. However, five hundred years of colonial racism and post-colonial paternalism have undermined trade negotiations. While urging developing countries to participate in trade, the North offers empty deals to "partners" that it regards as unequal. Using a mixed-methods approach, J. P. Singh exposes the actual position beneath the North's image of benevolence and empathy: either join in the type of trade that developed countries offer, or be cast aside as obstreperous and unwilling. Through case studies, Singh reveals how the global North ultimately bars developing nations from flourishing. His findings chart a path forward, showing that developing nations can garner favorable concessions by drawing on unique strengths and through collective advocacy. Sweet Talk offers a provocative rethinking of how far our international relations have come and how far we still have to go.

Author : I. William Zartman,Jeffrey Z. Rubin
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Balance of power
ISBN : 0472089072

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Power and Negotiation by I. William Zartman,Jeffrey Z. Rubin Pdf

Examines perceived power on the basis of which symmetries and asymmetries in the relations between parties can be identified

Author : Walter Goode
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Australia
ISBN : 192124495X

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Negotiating Free-trade Agreements by Walter Goode Pdf

Author : Kristen Hopewell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108834797

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Clash of Powers by Kristen Hopewell Pdf

One of the first analyses of the impact of US-China rivalry on the governance of global trade.

Author : C. Efstathopoulos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137381767

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Middle Powers in World Trade Diplomacy by C. Efstathopoulos Pdf

Examining how leading developing countries are increasingly shaping international economic negotiations, this book uses the case studies of India and South Africa to demonstrate the ability of states to exert diplomatic influence through different bargaining strategies and represent the interests of the developing world in global governance.

Author : Clara Weinhardt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351402521

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Negotiating Trade in Uncertain Worlds by Clara Weinhardt Pdf

This book shows how a constructivist account of bargaining sheds new light on the emergence of impasse situations in international trade negotiations. It uncovers the subtle ways in which misperceptions – and the problems of overcoming them – complicate negotiations. It brings to the forefront misperceptions and sticky beliefs that complicate trade talks between the Global South and the Global North. Empirically, the book examines the recent negotiations of Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union (EU) and West Africa (2002–2014). In doing so, it enriches the study of negotiations of development-oriented trade agreements in the context of a major North-South partnership. By exploring a constructivist perspective on game theory, the author uncovers how the repeated impasse situations followed from the different "games" both sides expected to be playing. The author shows that such misperceptions endured because they reflected deep-seated normative disagreements not only over the effects of neo-liberal trade reforms, but also over how to structure EU – Africa post-colonial trade relations in the 21st century. Comparing and contrasting both sides’ divergent perspectives helps us to see how trade negotiations are never just about economic interests, but also about the (re)negotiation of the values and ideas that structure state interaction. The book draws on a large set of qualitative primary data on EU-West Africa trade negotiations. Negotiating trade in uncertain worlds will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, international political economy, international trade, international negotiations, EU external relations, EU-Africa cooperation, economic diplomacy, international relations of the developing world, and North-South cooperation.

Author : Johan Adriaensen,Evgeny Postnikov
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030812812

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A Geo-Economic Turn in Trade Policy? by Johan Adriaensen,Evgeny Postnikov Pdf

Contemporary trade policy is increasingly framed in geo-strategic terms. But how much of that rhetoric is reflected in actual policy choices by the EU or its trading partners? This book provides a first systematic study of the broader international context in which EU trade agreements are conceived, negotiated, and designed. Building on a refined conceptualisation of geo-economics, the book develops a cogent framework that combines insights from scholarship on the design of free trade agreements with ideas from foreign policy analysis. Empirically, the analysis focuses on the relations between the EU and the Asia-Pacific. Following the United States’ pivot to Asia and the EU’s Global Europe strategy, China’s backyard has become the main arena in which global powers’ geo-economic strategies overlap. Building on a series of case-studies, combining the perspectives from the EU and its trading partners, the book shows that the rhetoric of geo-economic competition is yet to catch up with the actual negotiation and design of free trade agreements. This volume will be of great interest to scholars, students and practitioners who want to gain a holistic understanding of contemporary trade negotiations.

Author : J. P. Singh
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781503601055

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Sweet Talk by J. P. Singh Pdf

Developed nations strive to create the impression that their hearts and pockets bleed for the developing world. Yet, the global North continues to offer unfavorable trade terms to the global South. Truly fair trade would make reciprocal concessions to developing countries while allowing them to better their own positions. However, five hundred years of colonial racism and post-colonial paternalism have undermined trade negotiations. While urging developing countries to participate in trade, the North offers empty deals to "partners" that it regards as unequal. Using a mixed-methods approach, J. P. Singh exposes the actual position beneath the North's image of benevolence and empathy: either join in the type of trade that developed countries offer, or be cast aside as obstreperous and unwilling. Singh reveals how the global North ultimately bars developing nations from flourishing. His findings chart a path forward, showing that developing nations can garner favorable concessions by drawing on unique strengths and through collective advocacy. Sweet Talk offers a provocative rethinking of how far our international relations have come and how far we still have to go.

Author : Samuel O. Oloruntoba
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137568658

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Regionalism and Integration in Africa by Samuel O. Oloruntoba Pdf

The resurgence of regionalism is borne out of the current political logjams that have characterized the governance and operations of multilateral trading system over the past one decade and a half. Oloruntoba critically examines Euro-Nigeria relations within the context of the Economic Partnership Agreements in terms of the political and economic implications of the agreements on Nigeria’s non-oil exports sub-sectors. Set within one of the main objectives of the Economic Partnership Agreements, he also interrogates the prospects and challenges of regional integration in Africa under the regime of transnational accumulation, which the Economic Partnership Agreements represents.