Negotiating the Free Trade Area of the Americas [electronic resource] /
Arashiro, Z.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- PART I: Analytical Framework * Introduction * PART II: The FTAA Negotiations * The FTAA Negotiations * PART III: Background * Economic Paradigms and Trade Regionalism in Latin America * Lessons from Economic Cooperation in the Americas * PART IV: The Case Studies * US Foreign Trade Policy: Leadership in a Constrained System * Brazilian Foreign Trade Policy: Instrument for an Autonomous Nation.
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.
Free Trade Area of the Americas (Organization)
International relations.
Latin America-Politics and government.
Ethnology-Latin America.
Political science.
Political economy.
Globalization.
International Relations.
Latin American Politics.
Latin American Culture.
Political Science.
International Political Economy.
Globalization.