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Author : Brian P. Macfie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Regional Trade Agreements and Shifts in Hegemony written by Brian P. Macfie and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ram Upendra Das
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 981445222X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Regional Trade And Economic Integration: Analytical Insights And Policy Options written by Ram Upendra Das and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012-05-21 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Asia-Pacific region has emerged as a dominant player in trade and will continue to be an influential pole of world trade and economics, with the center of gravity shifting to this region. This book presents analytical insights into the various regional and bilateral trade agreements (RTAs) and their beneficial effects on bilateral trade and development. It provides an incisive analysis and a roundup of all major RTAs and also presents an overview of all major agreements between the countries involved, which might propel their trade flows and influence future economic engagements.The book in a novel way also discusses possible obstacles that are encountered during the implementation of RTAs and circumvention routes, once those taken into account could ensure the successful execution of the agreements. The book dwells on the issue of regionalism and multilateralism with reference to General Agreements on Trade and Tariffs and World Trade Organisation, which have revolutionized the trade dynamics by opening up new areas of trade-rules and formulating specific policy guidelines for the member countries to adhere to during trade negotiations. The book also provides new insights into some of the issues of negotiations such as sensitive lists, trade and investment cooperation, including trade in services, rules of origin, non-tariff barriers, anti-dumping etc. The book also focuses on policy instruments that could convert trade gains to development gains. The existing economic cooperation arrangements in the region as well as those that are at various stages of study and negotiations, empirical insights and policy suggestions are elucidated in detail./a
Author : Vittorio Nicholas Galasso
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781267214614
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (146 download)
Download or read book From Hegemony to Multiple Hierarchy written by Vittorio Nicholas Galasso and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines the following question: How do declining hegemons reorient their foreign policy strategies? This question is significant, as the current era of unipolarity is now witnessing declining American hegemony. To get at the problem, I examine the relationship between U.S. hegemonic decline and the post World War II multilateral trade regime. Liberal International Relations theory proposes the U.S. will relinquish control over the regime's decision making as its hegemony continues to wane. However, my findings suggest otherwise. Hegemonic decline led the U.S. to abandon multilateralism in the early 2000s. In its place, the U.S. embarked on a policy of negotiating numerous bilateral trade agreements with significantly weaker economies. Liberal institutionalism also argues declining hegemony matters little for regimes to survive. Yet, my data on the failed Doha round of multilateral trade negotiations indicates the regime is discordant. The study employs both an historical analysis of the trade regime, as well as three case studies of recent U.S. bilateral Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). The cases explicate how FTAs became a new venue for the Bush administration to promote its security and economic agenda, in the face of declining American hegemony. The conclusion that I draw is declining hegemons relocate to negotiating environments that still favor their power.
Author : Tonny Brems Knudsen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030977110
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Power Transition in the Anarchical Society written by Tonny Brems Knudsen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-09 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ongoing power transition and its ramifications for world order from an international society perspective. In that perspective, the outcome of big changes in the distribution of power is a matter of socialization rather than structural determination or the resilience of the so-called Liberal world order. Consequently, the key question of this book is how the ongoing power transition affects, and is affected by, the social institutions of world order including sovereignty, the balance of power, international law, diplomacy, trade, humanitarian intervention, national self-determination, and environmental stewardship. The guiding theoretical assumption of the book is that power transition stimulates fundamental institutional change rather than major conflict or a breakdown of international order, while international organizations are key arenas for the realization and negotiation of such changes, not the victims of hegemonic retreat. The argument is pursued in sections on rising and declining powers (Anglo-America, Russia, China and the EU, among others), consequences for the fundamental social institutions and changes in international organizations, globally and regionally. In combination, the chapters reveal the contours of the coming world order.
Author : Florian Böller
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030745058
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Hegemonic Transition written by Florian Böller and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an assessment of the ongoing transformation of hegemonic order and its domestic and international politics. The current international order is in crisis. Under the Trump administration, the USA has ceased to unequivocally support the institutions it helped to foster. China’s power surge, contestation by smaller states, and the West’s internal struggle with populism and economic discontent have undermined the liberal order from outside and from within. While the diagnosis of a crisis is hardly new, its sources, scope, and underlying politics are still up for debate. Our reading of hegemony diverges from a static concept, toward a focus on the dynamic politics of hegemonic ordering. This perspective includes the domestic support and demand for specific hegemonic goods, the contestation and backing by other actors within distinct layers of hegemonic orders, and the underlying bargaining between the hegemon and subordinate actors. The case studies in this book thus investigate hegemonic politics across regimes (e.g., trade and security), regions (e.g., Asia, Europe, and Global South), and actors (e.g., major powers and smaller states).
Author : Ernesto Vivares
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135105995
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Financing Regional Growth and the Inter-American Development Bank written by Ernesto Vivares and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crisis of the current global financial order is challenging us to critically reflect on how this order has been driven, and the development outcomes produced by its central political and economic actors. There is a great deal of academic knowledge about the role of the international financial institutions, powerful states and capital markets in international development, but there is little understanding of how regional dynamics and regional institutions influence global governance and developing countries. This book offers an independent and grounded investigation concerning the political economic role of Regional Development Banks through a study of the world’s leading regional development bank, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The book examines the political economy of the IDB and its role in regional and national development during the neoliberalisation processes of the 1990s. In particular, the investigations explore the IDB’s power in regional and national development – via its technical, political and financial interventions – to frame policy alternatives, absorb opposition forces, support specific coalition forces and justify a particular direction of development, all in order to legitimize specific political economic projects directed by market-led pro-reform coalitions aligned with global financial forces and financial development guidelines. This book will be relevant to scholars and professionals interested in the international and regional political economy of development financing.
Author : David Grondin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317122828
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Hegemony or Empire? written by David Grondin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American power has been subjected to extensive analysis since September 11, 2001. While there is no consensus on the state of US hegemony or even on the precise meaning of the term, it is clear that under George W. Bush the US has not only remained the 'lone superpower' but has increased its global military supremacy. At the same time, the US has become more dependent on its economic, financial and geopolitical relationships with the rest of the world than at any other time in its history, markedly since the events of 9/11. The distinguished scholars in this volume critically interpret US hegemony from a range of theoretical and topical perspectives. They discuss the idea of empire in the age of globalization, critique the Bush doctrine, analyze the ideologies underpinning a new American imperialism and examine the influence of neo-conservatism on US foreign and domestic policy.
Author : Kym Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Regional Integration and the Global Trading System written by Kym Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses questions surrounding the relationship between regional integration agreements and the global trading system. It has been revised following a conference at the GATT and forms part of the background material for a study in the GATT Secretariat's annual report, "International Trade".
Author : Alister Miskimmon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317975197
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Strategic Narratives written by Alister Miskimmon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communication is central to how we understand international affairs. Political leaders, diplomats, and citizens recognize that communication shapes global politics. This has only been amplified in a new media environment characterized by Internet access to information, social media, and the transformation of who can communicate and how. Soft power, public diplomacy 2.0, network power – scholars and policymakers are concerned with understanding what is happening. This book is the first to develop a systematic framework to understand how political actors seek to shape order through narrative projection in this new environment. To explain the changing world order – the rise of the BRICS, the dilemmas of climate change, poverty and terrorism, the intractability of conflict – the authors explore how actors form and project narratives and how third parties interpret and interact with these narratives. The concept of strategic narrative draws together the most salient of international relations concepts, including the links between power and ideas; international and domestic; and state and non-state actors. The book is anchored around four themes: order, actors, uncertainty, and contestation. Through these, Strategic Narratives shows both the possibilities and the limits of communication and power, and makes an important contribution to theorizing and studying empirically contemporary international relations. International Studies Association: International Communication Best Book Award
Author : Edward D. Mansfield
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231106634
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (66 download)
Download or read book The Political Economy of Regionalism written by Edward D. Mansfield and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring regionalism from a political economic perspective, this text investigates why regional arrangements are formed, the conditions under which these arrangements solidify, and why they take on different institutional forms.
Author : Henk W Overbeek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134935943
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Restructuring Hegemony in the Global Political Economy written by Henk W Overbeek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1993-05-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This presents a timely appraisal of the process of transforming economic domination as it has unfolded from the late 1970s. The contributors are some of the most stimulating and provocative writers currently working in political economics.
Author : Chiao, Yuan-Ming
Publisher : kassel university press GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3737603588
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (376 download)
Download or read book Imagined Economies and the Re-Framing of Trade Policy: written by Chiao, Yuan-Ming and published by kassel university press GmbH. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2010, Taiwan and China concluded a landmark trade agreement: the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) that sought to pave the way for closer commercial ties by lowering tariffs on several trade items. Just a decade earlier, both sides of the Taiwan Strait were ratcheting up rhetoric that seemed to point to growing political uncertainty across a region once a hotspot during the Cold War. What was behind this political sea change? The paradox of state policy in the cross-Strait political economy over the past three decades is that despite increased economic activity between both sides, national identity remains an important barometer in framing the prospects and limits of policymaking. In accounting for this paradox and how actors have dealt with it through problem definition and trade policy adjustment, this research utilizes economic imaginaries, a discursive field that shapes the conceptualization of economic life. As discourse and structure are dialectical in relation to one another, an economic imaginary represents an analytical concept to map out ideational shifts concerning economic life and national identity. Specifically, the author aims to address the following questions with the regard to the reconceptualization of cross-Strait commerce in Taiwan government policy: - What ideas and practices are selected and drawn upon by political elites in Taiwan to create new economic imaginaries? - How are these ideas being negotiated and resisted in rebuilding of social relations? - What are the areas of unevenness and contradictions within the discursive process? This research utilizes a combined methodological approach toward navigating economic imaginaries, including critical discourse analysis, analysis of collective action frames and the critical junctures that challenge their hegemonic power. Drawing upon expert interviews, key policy texts from political and intellectual elites, critical discourse analysis demonstrates the linkage between imaginaries and framing actions by revealing the cognitive mapping of the cross-Strait political economy, the dominant discourses that inform them and the ways in which hegemonic ideas are reproduced within the discourse.
Author : Jeff D. Colgan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197546374
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Partial Hegemony written by Jeff D. Colgan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When and why does international order change? Easy to take for granted, international governing arrangements shape our world. They allow us to eat food imported from other countries, live safely from nuclear war, travel to foreign cities, profit from our savings, and much else. New threats, including climate change and simmering US-China hostility, lead many to worry that the "liberal order," or the US position within it, is at risk. Theorists often try to understand that situation by looking at other cases of great power decline, like the British Empire or even ancient Athens. Yet so much is different about those cases that we can draw only imperfect lessons from them. A better approach is to look at how the United States itself already lost much of its international dominance, in the 1970s, in the realm of oil. Only now, with several decades of hindsight, can we fully appreciate it. The experiences of that partial decline in American hegemony, and the associated shifts in oil politics, can teach us a lot about general patterns of international order. Leaders and analysts can apply those lessons when seeking to understand or design new international governing arrangements on topics ranging from climate change to peacekeeping, and nuclear proliferation to the global energy transition"--
Author : Jorge Dominguez
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136769838
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Between Compliance and Conflict written by Jorge Dominguez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the responses to U.S. power in the two areas of the world where U.S. primacy was first successfully consolidated: East Asia and Latin America. The U.S. has faced no comparably powerful challengers to the exercise of its power in Latin America for much of the past century. It established its primacy over much of East Asia in the aftermath of WW II and extended its influence in the late 1970's and after the end of the Vietnam War through its entente with China to balance the Soviet Union. By contrast, the U.S. has always encountered rivals and challengers in Europe, has attempted unsuccessfully thus far to impose its primacy in the Middle East, and has paid only intermittent attention to South Asia and Africa. The essays in this volume will explore three important themes 1.) How do region-wide economic trends and arrangements sustain or modify U.S. influence in the region? 2.) How do rising powers in these regions (Japan, China, Brazil) reshape their policies to cope with the U.S. and 3.) How do new (South Korea) and old (Cuba) challengers to U.S. power shape their policies to account for the unrivaled exercise of U.S. power. This collection will place the United States at the hub of relations with countries in East Asia and Latin America and examine the new policies and new styles of engagement that are employed to address the prolonged U.S. interest in these areas-approaches from which the rest of the world might learn.
Author : Eul-Soo Pang
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN 13 : 9814311995
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book The U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement written by Eul-Soo Pang and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2011 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free trade has become the mantra of development strategy for many countries in the world, especially those in the Asia Pacific. This book delves into the American side of the story. It is about how Singapore and the United States came to sign the agreement in 2003 (taking effect from 1 January 2004). The United States - Singapore Free Trade Agreement (USSFTA) is the first FTA that America signed with an Asian country and the second such agreement with a fully developed country, after Canada. The city-state has used a free trade agreement as both a national survival and a growth strategy, first forging such FTA ties with its major trading partners and then expanding its strategic link to such extra-regional great powers as the United States, Japan, Australia, China, India, and the European Union. Both Singapore and the United States saw in FTAs something more than just merchandise trade.
Author : Michael K. Connors
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317232674
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book The New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific written by Michael K. Connors and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its new and fully updated third edition, The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific continues to provide a compelling analysis of a region undergoing dramatic changes. Based on new research and offering fresh interpretation, this edition evaluates the prospects for continuing US dominance in the ‘Asian Century’. Whilst presenting evidence for a multifaceted ‘Beijing Strategy', which aims to counter the US by building an alternative regional order, it also explains Japan’s definitive departure from its limited military role. Providing an introductory guide for the main frameworks needed to understand the region, including realism, liberalism and critical theory, this new edition is reader-friendly, and offers sophisticated competing explanations. Key content includes: Intra-regional conflicts in the South China Sea and the Korean peninsula, The different responses within the Asia-Pacific to the globalization of Western ideas of democracy and political economy, The underappreciated success of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in building a regional identity, The European Union’s soft power in the region. A highly topical account, which offers an overview of the main actors, institutions and contemporary issues in the Asia-Pacific, the book will be essential reading for undergraduate students of Asian Studies, International Politics, and anyone interested in the region.
Author : Lillian Corbin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811330387
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Free Trade Agreements written by Lillian Corbin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together international perspectives on free trade issues that affect civil society from the general populace to the governments of nations, and is relevant not only for lawyers, but also policymakers, international actors and businesses, as well as those with a general interest in free trade agreements. The book examines the manifestation of the concept of free trade in agreements, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), and China-Australia Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA). It asks whether such agreements are entered into for the purposes of enhancing trading relationships between partner nations, strengthening commercial ties, and fostering economic growth; or are they sometimes used merely for local political outcomes of the most influential nations.
