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Overview
Cohn's topic of global trade is of enormous and proliferating interest. He provides a good background from 1945 to the present and on core contemporary themes such as civil society participation and the domesticization of the trade agenda. Whilst there is a wealth of literature on policy oriented aspects such as negotiating rounds, there are few that provide the careful, comprehensive historical overview that this work offers and none that do so with reference to the other major international institutions at work such as the G7, the Quad, the OECD, the UNCTAD and the WTO in a global trade governance. Cohn's political science background will appeal direct to a university audience and a broader public policy market, while also suitable for those interested in trade in the cognates of economics and law. This work's theoretical framework embraces and synthesizes the major approaches in the field of international relations and will be appropriate for the dominant schools of realists and liberal institutionalists alike. It could therefore be apt for courses on international relations theory or international political economy taught in a theoretical mode. This book reinforces and broadens the focus of all previous works in the G8 and Global Governance series.About the Author:
Professor Theodore H. Cohn, Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., CanadaEND
Synopsis
Decision making procedures in the global trade regime are pyramidal, says Cohn (Simon Fraser U., Canada), with institutions controlled by developed countries the near top and those oriented to developing countries near the bottom. He investigates how the US, the European Union, and their tame organizations become influential; the nature of their influence; and how their influence has changed over time. He also considers the challenges developing countries and civil society groups have raised to the pyramidal structure. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR