Trade, Development and Globalization

ISBN-13: 9780415826990 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 188 str.

Syed Javed Maswood

Opis

The trade regime established at the end of the Second World War did not cater for and in some cases excluded the developmental interests of the newly independent countries.

This book provides a longitudinal study of developing country involvement in multilateral trade negotiations. It examines three periods of coalitional bargaining that have all been relatively unsuccessful in significantly amending the architecture of international trade, despite some modest successes. It offers a detailed analysis of:

• The first attempts to revise the trade regime in the 1960s through the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the formation of the Group of 77 to enhance their bargaining potential.
• The mixed coalition strategy, with the Cairns Group in the Uruguay Round of GATT.
• The new bargaining coalition, the Group of Twenty, that took on a much more confrontational and assertive bargaining position in the unsucessful Doha round of the World Trade Organization.

In part two, the author explores the possibility that economic globalization may finally deliver to developing countries what they had failed to achieve in five decades of multilateral negotiations - an opportunity to climb the industrialization ladder and achieve development. He also offers a proposal for revising the format of trade negotiations in a way that helps overcome stalemates and deadlocks.

This important book will be of interest to students and scholars of international trade, trade and development, negotiation, global governance, political economy, international relations and economics.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Part I  2. Southern Coalitions in Trade Negotiations  3. The G77 and UNCTAD  4. The Cairns Group and Uruguay Round Chapter  5. The G20 in Doha Round  Part II  6. Economic Globalization and Development  7. Reforming the Architecture of World Trade  8. Conclusion

O autorze

S. Javed Maswood is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at The American University in Cairo, Egypt..