Asymmetric Trade Negotiations

Philippe De Lombaerde is Associate Director at United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) (Bruges, Belgium). Sanoussi Bilal is the Head of the Economic and Trade Cooperation Programme at the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) (Maastricht, The Netherlands). Diana Tussie directs the Department of International Relations at the Argentine campus of the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), and is founding director of the Latin American Trade Network.

'Power dynamics and competing interests in international trade negotiations are a vexing problem at the heart of global and regional trade agendas. The multi-regional and comparative cases in the volume allow a nuanced understanding of the intricacies of negotiations among asymmetrical trade partners. It is an important contribution to the debate on the architecture of global economic institutions, as well as the future of the global trade agenda.' José Raúl Perales, The George Washington University, USA 'Given that almost all of New Zealand’s trade negotiations are with larger partners (only Brunei is smaller), this book on asymmetry and how to cope with it is timely... it offers credible examples from the 21st century... A timely reminder of enduring global political-economic imbalances.' New Zealand International Review 'The international political economy framework employed in this book is paired with a trade policy practitioner’s level of detailed knowledge of the world trading regime, making for a book that is both theoretically interesting and empirically satisfying. ... This book is a good contribution to international political economy analyses of the world trade regime.' Political Studies Review

• Chapter 1 The Sweep of Asymmetric Trade Negotiations: Introduction and Overview, Diana Tussie, Marcelo Saguier; Chapter 2 The Scope for Asymmetry in the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Woolcock Stephen; Chapter 3 Asymmetric Trade Negotiations for Development: What Does the Experience from the ACP-EU Economic Partnership Agreements Tell Us?, Bilal Sanoussi; Chapter 4 Comparative Asymmetric Trade Negotiations in the Southern Cone: FTAA and EU-MERCOSUR, Mercedes Botto, Andrea C. Bianculli; Chapter 5 Venezuela in Asymmetric Trade Negotiations: The Cases of Negotiations in the FTAA and with the EU, Rita Giacalone; Chapter 6 Negotiating the Colombia-US FTA: A Colombian Perspective, Luis Jorge Garay, Philippe De Lombaerde, Fernando Barberi; Chapter 7 Negotiating the Thailand-US Free Trade Agreement, Wisarn Pupphavesa, Ludo Cuyvers, Santi Chaisrisawatsuk, Philippe De Lombaerde; Chapter 8 Postscript: Asymmetric Trade Negotiations After the Turn-of-the-decade ‘Global’ Financial Crisis?, Timothy M. Shaw;