Challenges to Multilateral Trade: The Impact of Bilateral, Preferential and Regional Agreements

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-263) and index. Publisher Marketing: Progress in multilateral negotiations to liberalize trade under the World Trade Organization (WTO) has become more difficult since newer members are generally developing countries with different interests than the United States, the European Union and other industrialized countries. More than 250 free trade agreements (FTAs) have come into effect since 1948. Partly as a result of the WTO impasse, over 130 FTAs have been ratified just in the past ten years; each agreement has been designed to eliminate trade restrictions and subsidies between the parties involved. Almost all of the WTO Members participate in one or more FTAs (some Members are party to twenty or more). Most books on FTAs are country- or region-specific, while others deal with the subject from a particular perspective. This timely work employs a broader approach exploring FTAs from the interdisciplinary perspectives of international law, political economy, culture and human rights. Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2009 pg. 196 (EAN 9789041127112, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Buckley, John F Buckley is a senior attorney on the Public Law team of the National Legal Research Group, where he specializes in civil rights, employment discrimination, and local and state government law. Mr. Buckley received his Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1983. In 1987 he received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law. Contributor Bio:  Buckley, Ross P Ross P. Buckley is a Professor of Law at University of New South Wales, a Fellow of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law of the University of Hong Kong, and a Fellow of Australia21, a national research organization. He is the founding series editor of the Global Trade Law Series; series co-editor of the International Banking and Finance Law Series, and founding editor of the Overseas Law column in the Australian Law Journal. He has written or edited eight books, and authored more than 90 book chapters and articles.