Title: The political economy of hemispheric integration : responding to globalization in the Americas /
Authors: Sánchez-Ancochea, Diego.; Shadlen, Kenneth C.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Free trade America; America Foreign economic relations Congresses.; America Economic integration Congresses.
Abstract: "The contributors to this book evaluate the economics and politics of this new pattern of North-South integration in the Americas. The book begins by considering the developmental implications of this new pattern of integration. Such agreements provide Latin American and Caribbean countries with significantly improved access to the US market, yet purchasing such preferential access via negotiation of RBTAs agreements with the US obliges countries to adopt US-style practices in areas such as the management of inward foreign investment and intellectual property. The first half of the volume addresses these issues, focusing on the challenges derived from new patterns of foreign investment, the rise of China as an exporting power, the emergence of a new regime for investment protection, and the multiplicity of intrusive forms of economic governance embodied in regional and global trade regimes. The second half of the book focuses on both the proliferation of RBTAs, and, critically, the limits to the spread of such agreements. The authors consider the interests in integration and strategies for negotiating RBTAs from the perspective of a variety of actors, deploying a range of analytic approaches. The chapters assess the capacities of the US to fulfil ambitions for integration, the strategy of Canada to both maintain close relations with the US and counterbalance its neighbor's preponderant influence throughout the region, the response of smaller countries in Central America and the Caribbean, reactions toward integration of the larger South American countries in Mercosur, and the broader question of how developing countries form coalitions and design collective bargaining strategies to participate in international trade politics."--Publisher's description.
Contents: Introduction: Globalization, Integration, and the Political Economy of Development in the Americas / Diego Sanchez-Ancochea & Kenneth C. Shadlen --- PART I: THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT. The Transnationalization of Developing America: Trends, Challenges, and (Missed) Opportunities /Michael Mortimore -- What Does China's Integration to the Global Economy Mean for Latin America?: The Mexican Experience / Enrique Dussel Peters -- Investment Treaty Arbitration and the Policy Implications for Capital-Importing Countries /Gus Van Harten -- Policy Space for a Capability-Centered Development Strategy for Latin America / Luis Abugattas & Eva Paus --- PART II: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HEMISPHERIC INTEGRATION. The Politics of Trade and the Limits to U.S. Power in the Americas / Nicola Phillips -- State and Society: The Politics of DR-CAFTA in Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, and El Salvador /Diego Sanchez-Ancochea -- FTAA Trade Negotiations: A View of the Brazilian Co-Chairmanship / Adhemar Bahadian & Mauricio Carvalho Lyrio -- Canada and the Politics of Regional Economic Integration in the Americas / Laura Macdonald -- Trade Negotiations and Development Politics: Caving In or Edging Up? /Diana Tussie.