Challenges to the global trading system : adjustment to globalization in the Asia-Pacific region

✍ Scribed by Peter A Petri; Sumner J La Croix

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 253
Series: Pacific Trade and Development Conference series
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Peter Petri and Sumner LaCroix, Introduction Challenges to the Global Trading System Scholarly Papers 1. Supachai Panitchpakdi, The Challenge of Policy in the Era of Globalization 2. Douglas A. Irwin, Globalization Fatigue, Not Globalization Backlash 3. Yumiko Okamoto, The Emergence of 'Intra-Mediate' Trade: Implications for the Asia-Pacific Region 4. Yung Chul Park, Shujiro Urata, and Inkyo Cheong, Inha University, The Political Economy of the Proliferation of FTAs 5. Chad Bown and Rachel McCulloch, Welfare and the Political Economy of Trade in Developed Countries: U.S. Trade Policy Toward China 6. Erlinda Medalla, Does Trade Cause an Environmental Race to the Bottom: Another Look at the Issues 7. Justin Lin and Ying-Yi Tsai, What's New About Outsourcing? 8. Sumner La Croix and Denise Eby Konan, Is IP Protection Unfair to Developing Countries? 9. Rong-I Wu, Chyuan-Jenq Shiau and Professor Chi-Chen Chiang, Economic Interdependence and Security in the Asia-Pacific Policy Perspectives 1. Mari Pangestu [TO COME, 2000 words] 2. Lisa Coen, "US Trade Strategy and the Asia-Pacific Region" 3. Geir Haarde, "Balancing Regional and Multilateral Commitments: the Case of Iceland" 4. Doug Bereuter, "Globalization and Politics" Business Perspectives 1. Narongchai Akrasanee, "Globalization in the Cyber State" 2. Richard Rosenberg, "California: A Microcosm of Pacific Rim Trade Issues" 3. David McClain, "Globalization at the University of Hawaii" 4. Arthur Goldstein, "Competition and Fairness in the Execution of Globalization" 5. Eng Fong Pang, "International Opportunities and National Choices" Academic Perspectives 1. Peter Drysdale, "Troubling Directions in Trade Negotiations" 2. Hugh Patrick, "Sustaining the Multilateral Trading System" 3. Peter A. Petri, "Adjustment, Compensation and Contingent Protection" 4. Hadi Soesastro, "First- and Second-order Adjustments to Globalization" 5. Kim Song Tan, "Managing Adjustments to Globalization"

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Figures......Page 8
Tables and boxes......Page 9
Contributors......Page 11
Preface......Page 14
List of Abbreviations......Page 16
1 New challenges to the global trading system......Page 20
2 The challenge of policy in the era of globalization......Page 28
3 Globalization fatigue, not globalization backlash......Page 34
4 The emergence of ‘intra-mediate trade’: implications for the Asia-Pacific region......Page 40
5 The political economy of the proliferation of FTAs......Page 62
6 US trade policy towards China: discrimination and its implications......Page 77
7 Does trade lead to a race to the bottom in environmental standards? Another look at the issues......Page 102
8 What’s new about outsourcing?......Page 134
9 Have developing countries gained from the marriage between trade agreements and intellectual property rights?......Page 150
10 Economic interdependence and security in the Asia Pacific......Page 174
Policy perspectives......Page 202
11 Practitioner’s perspectives on trade and development......Page 203
12 US trade strategy and the Asia-Pacific region......Page 209
13 Balancing regional and multilateral commitments: the case of Iceland......Page 211
14 Globalization and politics......Page 213
Business perspectives......Page 216
15 New dimensions of globalization......Page 217
16 California: a microcosm of Pacific Rim trade issues......Page 219
17 Globalization at the University of Hawaii......Page 222
18 Competition and fairness in the execution of globalization......Page 224
19 International opportunities and national choices......Page 228
Academic perspectives......Page 230
20 Adverse trends in trade negotiations......Page 231
21 Sustaining the multilateral trading system......Page 234
22 Adjustment, compensation and contingent protection......Page 236
23 First- and second-order adjustments to globalization......Page 239
24 Managing adjustments to globalization......Page 241
Index......Page 243

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