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Multilateralism and Regionalism in the Post-Uruguay Round Era

What Role for the EU?

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Editors:
  1. Olga Memedovic

    1. Netherlands Economic Institute, The Netherlands

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  2. Arie Kuyvenhoven

    1. Netherlands Economic Institute, The Netherlands
      Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands

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  3. Willem T. M. Molle

    1. Netherlands Economic Institute, The Netherlands
      Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Overview

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Economics and Politics of Different Routes towards Global Free Trade

      • Olga Memedovic, Arie Kuyvenhoven, Willem T. M. Molle
      Pages 3-28

  4. EU Market Access for LDCs

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. Regionalism and Globalization: The LDCs and the Single European Market

      • Pierre Buigues, Carlos Martínez Mongay
      Pages 133-165

    3. How Important are Trade Defence Measures and Non-Tariff Barriers for LDCs — with Particular Emphasis on those of the EU?

      • Marc Auboin, Sam Laird
      Pages 167-207

  5. EU Market Access: Regional Views

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      Pages 209-209
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    2. The View From Africa

      • T. Ademola Oyejide
      Pages 211-234

    3. The View from Latin America

      • Vera Thorstensen, Felix Peña
      Pages 235-277

    4. The View From Asia

      • Pradumna B. Rana
      Pages 279-307

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 309-331
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About this book

The Post-Uruguay Round era has seen a proliferation of regional preferential trade agreements (PTAs) as well as progressive multilateral trade liberalization initiatives. This has stimulated theoretical discussion on whether the policy of pursuing PTAs will have a malign or a benign impact on multilateralism. In the former case, proliferation of PT As may increase protection in global trade due to trade diversion effects, thereby creating impediments to multilateral freeing of global trade. In the latter case, the expansion of PTA membership could ultimately lead to non-discriminatory global free trade. At the core of this discussion is the question of how to explain the preference for PTA membership. While some economists view the expansion of PTA membership as exogenously determined, participants of the Fourth Annual Workshop of the Network EU-LDC Trade and Capital Relations also considered endogenous factors explaining increased PTA membership. This book offers a closer look at the motives of policy makers in both developed and developing countries to still adhere to PTAs, notwithstanding the theoretical superiority of multilateralism, and addresses the question of how to bring order into the world trading system. These issues are dealt with in 9 chapters by scholars from both the EU and LDCs. Each paper is discussed in terms of its policy relevance by a policy maker as well as by an academic specialized in the field.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Netherlands Economic Institute, The Netherlands

    Olga Memedovic, Arie Kuyvenhoven, Willem T. M. Molle

  • Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands

    Arie Kuyvenhoven

  • Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Willem T. M. Molle

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Multilateralism and Regionalism in the Post-Uruguay Round Era

  • Book Subtitle: What Role for the EU?

  • Editors: Olga Memedovic, Arie Kuyvenhoven, Willem T. M. Molle

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5225-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-8621-6Published: 31 October 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-7381-0Published: 29 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-5225-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 331

  • Topics: Economic Growth, International Economics, Public Economics

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