Download or read book A History of the FTAA written by Marcel Nelson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a critical account of the collapse of the FTAA negotiations and alterations to power relations in the Americas, this book argues that the collapse was rooted in a "crisis of authority" prompted by growing opposition in the Americas to US leadership and the neo-liberal reforms that had been promoted by Washington since the 1980s.
Download or read book Free Trade for the Americas written by Marianne Wiesebron and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The face of international trade is continuing to change rapidly. But while much attention is focused on where, post-Cancun, any new international negotiations under the auspices of the WTO may go, there are other developments of potentially equal importance. The United States, in particular, is prioritizing new regional trade agreements. This book focuses on the most ambitious of these negotiations -- the Free Trade Area of the Americas Agreement, which is due to be completed in 2005. This US initiative aims to replicate the NAFTA Agreement (which has bound the US, Canada and Mexico into a free trade area since 1994) across all 34 countries of South and North America (bar Cuba). This huge continental market is to be built around US-defined notions of free trade and protection of foreign investment, but will exclude the free movement of labour. This volume explains the origins and process of the negotiations -- both the complicated multilateral discussions and the bilateral agreements that have already been drafted. It explains in detail: * US strategy. * The structures and procedures of the Agreement. * The possible consequences for South America, including: Mercosur; Brazil, as Latin America's largest economy; and the region's many small economies, which cannot possibly compete on a level playing field with the US behemoth. * The wider implications of the FTAA for the global trading system, in particular for China, Japan and the EU. This book -- the first comprehensive, in-depth study of the FTAA -- will be of use to trade specialists, international economists, and all those interested in the FTAA, about which very little information is readily available in the public domain.
Download or read book The FTAA written by Robert Devlin and published by BID-INTAL. This book was released on 1999 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The FTAA and the political economy of protection in Brazil and the US Working Paper IECI Documento de Trabajo SITI n 12 written by Marcelo de Paiva Abreu and published by BID-INTAL. This book was released on 2006 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reciprocity in the FTAA the roles of market access institutions and negotiating capacity Working Paper SITI Documento de Trabajo IECI n 2 written by Julio J. Nogués and published by BID-INTAL. This book was released on 2003 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The benefits of the FTAA to Latin American countries will materialize through two channels: improved access to the region's markets, and enhanced growth prospects through the strengthening of basic economic institutions. Furthermore, the importance of these negotiations is heightened by the fact that they are taking place against the failure of the Uruguay Round to liberalize agricultural trade, and the lack of progress in the ongoing negotiations of the Doha Round, Under these conditions, for Latin American countries who are net exporters of different bundles of agricultural products, the FTAA could be the best opportunity for accelerating growth in the region. The analysis includes a discussion of these issues stressing the fact that in order for the reciprocical exchange of concessions agreed in the FTAA to result in an important liberalization of intra-regional trade, Latin American countries will have to negotiate with greater firmness than in the past.
Download or read book A History of the FTAA written by Marcel Nelson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a critical account of the collapse of the FTAA negotiations and alterations to power relations in the Americas, this book argues that the collapse was rooted in a "crisis of authority" prompted by growing opposition in the Americas to US leadership and the neo-liberal reforms that had been promoted by Washington since the 1980s.
Download or read book FTAA Expanding Hemispheric Trade written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Free Trade in the Americas written by Sidney Weintraub and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), an ambitious venture in regional market integration which builds on the principles of the North American Free Trade Agreement. It assesses the long-term corporate and public policy measures to cope with the increased monetary, fiscal and structural interdependence that will be required if the benefits of the FTAA are to be realized. The contributors suggest that with enlightened US leadership and the cooperation of Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, the FTAA could eventually match the EU in the world economy and as a multilateral leader. Initiatives to promote a culture of relational cooperation in a system of liberalized global commerce are stressed. In Latin America, there is an urgent need for such cooperation in order to enhance the region s lackluster growth rate and reduce the occurrences and severity of financial crises. The United States, Canada and Mexico will also benefit from the development of dynamic structural links with their regional neighbours. The authors highlight the importance for US policy initiatives to be complemented by constructive and harmonious corporate collaborations. This spirit of alliance capitalism will help ensure the FTAA promotes social justice as well as economic efficiency. This fully integrated volume, written by leading specialists in the field, will become an indispensable source for analysis of the prospects and role of the FTAA in the global economy. It will be warmly welcomed by informed readers such as international business experts, bankers, corporate executives, economists dealing with fiscal and monetary integration, and those interested in Latin American business.
Download or read book The Importance of the Free Trade Area of the Americas FTAA to United States Foreign Policy written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Negotiating the Free Trade Area of the Americas written by Z. Arashiro and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first detailed historical account of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations, this book covers the genesis of the project in the early 1990s to its demise in late 2003. It examines how the FTAA, an Inter-American policy idea, was incompatible with the predominant ideas and beliefs of Brazilian and American decision makers as to how they could and should conduct their countries' foreign trade policy in the Western Hemisphere.
Download or read book Greening the Americas written by Carolyn Deere-Birkbeck and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many of the papers included in this volume were first presented and discussed in the Spring of 2000 at a conference on lessons from the NAFTA for the FTAA"--Pref.
Download or read book Free Trade Area of the Americas FTAA and the EU written by Irina Makarova and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The governments and businessmen of the continent are actively promoting since 1994, the creation of the largest commercial block in the world, the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). 34 countries will be included in this agreement, covering a territory that goes from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. The FTAA will have an enormous impact on the lives of the 800 million people who live on this continent. However, many of us never heard of its existence.The FTAA was launched in 1994, at the First Summit of the Americas held in Miami, when the US president invited 33 heads of government - all but Cuba - to create a common agenda for the future of the Americas. The fundamental priority in this agenda was free trade and the expansion of the Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which includes Canada, the United States, and Mexico, all of America. In 1998, the Second Summit of the Americas was held in Santiago, Chile.After the launching of the FTAA, a complicated and hard process of negotiations began with axis in the annual meetings held by the ministers of economy of the participating countries of the process of constitution of the commercial block. Other complementary issues, for example at the political and military levels, are part of these negotiations.Currently the negotiations are aimed at obtaining a global text for governments and negotiating groups for the annual meeting to be held in Argentina in April 2001, in such a way that the Third Summit of the Americas to be held at the end of the same month in Quebec, Canada, represents a qualitative step towards the goal of bringing the FTAA into force in 2005.
Download or read book Brazilian Bourgeoisie and Foreign Policy written by Tatiana Berringer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With notable originality Tatiana Berringer presents, theoretically and empirically, a truly consistent Marxist analysis of Brazilian foreign policy under FHC and Lula governments, and reflections on Dilma, Temer, and Bolsonaro governments.
Download or read book The FTAA Process written by Stephen L. Lande and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Canadian Foreign Policy written by Patrick James and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook of Canadian Foreign Policy is the most comprehensive book of its kind, offering an updated examination of Canada's international role some 15 years after the dismantling of the Berlin Wall ushered in a new era in world politics. Highlighting both well-known and understudied topics, this handbook presents a marriage of the familiar and the underappreciated that enables readers to grasp much of the complexity of current Canadian foreign policy and appreciate the challenges policymakers must meet in the early 21st century.
Download or read book Civil Society and International Governance written by David Armstrong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project. Structures and processes occurring within and between states are no longer the only – or even the most important - determinants of those political, economic and social developments and dynamics that shape the modern world. Many issues, including the environment, health, crime, drugs, migration and terrorism, can no longer be contained within national boundaries. As a result, it is not always possible to identify the loci for authority and legitimacy, and the role of governments has been called into question. Civil Society anf International Governance critically analyses the increasing impact of nongovernmental organisations and civil society on global and regional governance. Written from the standpoint of advocates of civil society and addressing the role of civil society in relation to the UN, the IMF, the G8 and the WTO, this volume assess the role of various non-state actors from three perspectives: theoretical aspects, civil society interaction with the European Union and civil society and regional governance outside Europe, specifically Africa, East Asia and the Middle East. It demonstrates that civil society’s role has been more complex than one defined in terms, essentially, of resistance and includes actual participation in governance as well as multi-facetted contributions to legitimising and democratising global and regional governance. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, international relations, civil society, sociology, European politics and global governance.
Download or read book Free Trade and the Summit of the Americas written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
