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Regionalism became a major issue in international commercial diplomacy during the 1990s. The European Union's 1992 programme, the formation of NAFTA, and attempts to form or strengthen regional trading arrangements in South America, southern Afric...

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Several years have passed since the 'store wars' over barriers to foreign products at Japanese distribution firms. Yet among English-speaking readers, how these firms operate remains a puzzle. In this book, the best Japanese scholars in their fiel...

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Provides an introduction to the forces underlying all 'real' international economics, including trade flows, investment flows, and trade policy. This book is accompanied by an interactive website containing empirical questions and simulation exerc...

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This Study Guide complements van Marrewijk: International Trade and the World Economy, reviewing and deepening the student's understanding of the topics covered in the main textbook. It provides a set of questions relating to every chapter and the...

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Ashworth traces the growth of customs and excise, and their integral role in shaping the framework of industrial England. He examines their influence on elements such as state power, technical advance, and the evolution of a consumer society. If t...

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Fresh water resources are at the same time ecological, economic, social, and cultural goods and must be managed accordingly. The laws and policies favouring privatization, trade and investment liberalization and the laws and policies governing wat...

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The WTO Agreement on Agriculture subjected agriculture to a set of international rules for the first time in the history of international trade. Ever since its negotiation the Agreement, and its tolerance of farm subsidies, has been at the forefro...

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The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is controversial, and is widely blamed both for the poor state of Europe's fish stocks and the woes of its fishermen. This book lays out in detail the varied roles and responsibilities of the EU under the CFP, exa...

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The book provides an analytical overview of the WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement. The Anti-Dumping Agreement is often perceived as being the most technical and most controversial WTO agreement. The book explains both basic concepts and more advanced int...

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The protection of troubled industries against import surges, called safeguard measures under WTO law, are controversially justified on the basis of economic concerns. This book reviews the economic literature bearing on the soundness of safeguard ...

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This book chronicles how a controversial set of policy assumptions about the Japanese economy, known as revisionism, rose to become the basis of the trade policy approach of the Clinton administration, and details how Japan refused to accept US tr...

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How can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade? In this challenging and controversial book Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E Stiglitz and his co-author Andrew Charlton put forward a brand ne...

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The new edition of this successful text analyses the current economic issues facing a rapidly changing Europe. The authors combine policy, history and data to present a global perspective of the EU, written with a range of students taking an intro...

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Drawing on a number of unique new datasets, the authors seek to explore in historical context the relationship between trade agreements and the flow of global trade, and to identify how governments and countries might unilaterally and collectively...

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This is first book-length study of the politics surrounding the implementation of the WTO's Agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), a controversial agreement administered by the World Trade Organization.

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A comprehensive textbook account of the economics, institutional mechanics and politics of the world trading system. This third edition has been expanded and updated to cover developments in the WTO since its formation, including the Doha Round, p...

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A comprehensive textbook account of the economics, institutional mechanics and politics of the world trading system. This third edition has been expanded and updated to cover developments in the WTO since its formation, including the Doha Round, p...

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This book analyses the law of treaty interpretation as applied by the WTO Appellate Body. By focusing on the development of the law in practice, and the intersection of customary international law principles with the growth of WTO specific law, th...

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Parochial Global Europe focuses centrally on modern, 21st century trade policy. It also sheds light on the EU as a global actor by analysing its use of trade policy as a tool of foreign policy from promoting development, to encouraging human right...

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The Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization provides an authoritative and cutting-edge account of the World Trade Organization - what it does, how it goes about fulfilling its tasks, its achievements and problems, and how it might contend ...

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This is first book-length study of the politics surrounding the implementation of the WTO's Agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), a controversial agreement administered by the World Trade Organization.

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Bringing together all the most important treaties and materials in international trade law, investment law, and financial law, this book will be an invaluable resource to both students and practitioners of international economic law.

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Bringing together all the most important treaties and materials in international trade law, investment law, and financial law, this book will be an invaluable resource to both students and practitioners of international economic law.

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Fully updated in this second edition, this collection provides and analyses the latest legal, economic, political and social research, and advanced current thinking on the relationship between intellectual property and trade and development.

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This volume originated in a course of lectures which the author originally gave at the Universitu lnternationale de Sciences Comparues at Luxembourg. The book appeared under the title of the course, and followed the same pattern. In the course of ...

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The World Trade Organization (WTO) is one of the most important international organizations in existence today. It contains a set of disciplines that affect the ability of governments to impose trade restrictions, and has helped to support the ste...

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There is no doubt that the open multilateral trading system after World War II was a key ingredient in the rapid economic development of the entire world. Especially in Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan, exports increased dramatically both i...

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The World Trade Organization was established in the 1990s, superseding the GATT and providing a stronger institutional foundation for international trading arrangement among countries. As an international organization it faces a number of challeng...

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The World Trade Organization was established in the 1990s, superseding the GATT and providing a stronger institutional foundation for international trading arrangement among countries. As an international organization it faces a number of challeng...

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While large, multinational corporations have supported the removal of tariffs, behind the scenes these firms have fought for protection in the form of product regulations, including testing, labeling, and registration requirements. Unlike tariffs,...

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