International Trade and Neoliberal Globalism: Towards Re-Peripheralisation in Australia, Canada and Mexico?

ISBN-13: 9781138805460 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 226 str.

Paul Bowles;Ray Broomhill;Teresa Gutiérrez-Haces

Opis

This comparative volume uses a well-established centre-periphery model (from world-systems theory and dependency theory) to study free-trade agreements, focusing on countries with comparable locations within global capitalism.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. The Political Economy of Australian Development in Long-Run Perspective: From Lucky Country to Banana Republic?  3. The Australia-US Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA): Reinforcing Re-Peripheralisation  4. Contesting Neoliberal Globalism in Australia: Opportunities for Progressive Alternatives  5. The Political Economy of Canadian Development in Long-Run Perspective  6. Canada’s Free-Trade Agreements with the US and Mexico: The Exaggeration of North American Trade  7. Contesting Neoliberal Globalism in Canada: A Sovereign Country in an Interdependent World  8. The Political Economy of Mexican Development in a Long-Run Perspective  9. Mexico and NAFTA: Re-Peripheralisation under the Labour Export-Led Model  10. Contesting Neoliberal Globalism in Mexico: Challenges for the Political and the Social Left  11. Re-Peripheralisation and its Alternatives: Comparative Conclusions

O autorze

Paul Bowles is Professor of Economics and International Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada.

Ray Broomhill is Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide, Australia.

Teresa Gutiérrez-Haces is Senior Full Time Research Professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Stephen McBride is Professor of Political Science and Director at the Centre for Global Political Economy, Simon Fraser University, Canada.