International Trade and Developing Countries Bargaining coalitions in the GATT & WTO

• Main Author: Narlikar, Amrita
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York Routledge 2003; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
• Subjects: Developing countries; Entwicklungsländer; Foreign trade regulation; Foreign trade regulation > Developing countries; General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Organization); General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Organization) > Developing countries; International Political Economy; International trade; Koalition; Regionalism; Regionalism > Developing countries; Strategic alliances (Business); Strategic alliances (Business) > Developing countries; Trade blocs; Trade blocs > Developing countries; Verhandlungen; World Trade Organization; World Trade Organization > Developing countries; WTO-Recht; Montreal Mid-Term Review; country; Development Box; Punta Del Este; Coalition Type; Forthcoming WTO Negotiation; Blair House Accord; Doha Declaration; del; Bargaining Coalition; Joint Bargaining; type; External Weight; Cairns Group; Au Lait; Doha Ministerial; punta; Intra-industry Trade; coalition; Fisheries Subsidies; CARICOM Member State; group; Doha Development Agenda; Gdp Figure; Pre-negotiation Phase; Alliance Diplomacy; Informal Group; cairns; round; Developing Countries; NAM; uruguay; informal; Developing Country Coalitions; Developing Country Membership

A keen analysis of how and why countries bargain together in groups in world affairs, and why such coalitions are crucial to individual developing nations. It also reveals the effects these negotiating blocs are having on world affairs. Successful coalition building has proven to be a difficult and...

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- International Trade and Developing Countries: Bargaining coalitions in the GATT &amp -- WTO -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Series preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The problem: what kinds of coalitions work, and why? -- Methodology -- The argument -- Plan of the book -- 1 Bargaining together: why and how? -- 1.1 Bargaining constraints of developing countries -- 1.2 Why bargain together? -- 1.3 Methods of coalition formation: a theoretical overview -- 1.4 Definitions and typologies -- 1.5 Conclusion -- 2 Coalitions in the GATT and the entry of services -- 2.1 Participation and coalitions: developing countries in the GATT -- 2.2 Introducing services in the GATT -- 2.3 'Shifting coalitions' in the GATT and WTO -- 2.4 Conclusion -- 3 Bloc diplomacy: the Informal Group and the G-10 -- 3.1 Roots of the G-10: the Informal Group -- 3.2 Factors and events: mobilising the coalition and evolving an agenda -- 3.3 Evaluating the G-10 -- 3.4 Preliminary theoretical findings and conclusion -- 4 Alliance diplomacy: The issue-based, crossover coalitions of G-20 and Café au Lait -- 4.1 First steps: formation of the Jaramillo Group -- 4.2 From Jaramillo process to Café au Lait coalition -- 4.3 Successes and limitations -- 4.4 Theoretical implications -- 4.5 Aftermath and conclusion -- 5 Combination diplomacy: Issue-based blocs and sub-sectoral crossover alliances -- 5.1 Issue-based bloc on services -- 5.2 Disaggregating services: sub-sector coalitions -- 5.3 External conditions: divisions within the developed world -- 5.4 Constraints and conditions for successes: sub-sector coalitions -- 5.5 Theoretical implications and conclusion -- 6 Evolved alliances: The Cairns Group and Friends of Services Group -- 6.1 The rise of the Cairns Group: origins and evolving agenda -- 6.2 Conditions conducive to successes
• 6.3 Limitations and constraints -- 6.4 The Food Importers' Group: a comparison with the Cairns -- 6.5 Adapting the Cairns model: Friends of Services Group -- 6.6 Conclusion -- 7 Regionalism: A springboard for bargaining? -- 7.1 Regions: 'natural' bargaining coalitions? -- 7.2 The relationship between regional integration and effective bargaining -- 7.3 An alternative route to regional coalitions: the ASEAN example -- 7.4 Theoretical implications and conclusion -- 8 Coalitions of the new round: Developing countries at Seattle and Doha -- 8.1 The persistence and evolution of blocs -- 8.2 The record of alliances -- 8.3 Region-based coalitions -- 8.4 Conclusion -- 9 Conclusion -- 9.1 Necessary conditions for effective coalition formation -- 9.2 Classification and blueprint: what works, when, and for whom? -- 9.3 Strategies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index