The Challenge of European Integration
The Political Economy of Global Interdependence
Thomas D. Willett, Series Editor
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The Political Economy of International Organizations: A Public Choice Approach, edited by Roland Vaubel and Thomas D. Willett
Speculation and the Dollar: The Political Economy of Exchange Rates, Laurence A. Krause
Crossing Frontiers: Explorations in International Political Economy , Benjamin J. Cohen
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The Challenge of European Integration
Internal and External Problems of Trade and Money
Edited By
Berhanu Abegaz
Patricia Dillon
David H. Feldman
Paul F. Whiteley
First published 1994 by Westview Press, Inc.
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The challenge of European integration: internal and external problems
of trade and money / Abegaz ... [et al.].
p. cm.(The Political economy of global interdependence)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-8133-2355-X
1. EuropeEconomic integration. 2. European Economic Community.
3. European federation. 4. European Economic Community countries
Commercial policy. I. Abegaz, Berhanu. II. Series.
HC241.C4 1994
337.1'4dc20 94-8109
CIP
ISBN 13: 978-0-367-29059-7 (hbk)
Contents
, Berhanu Abegaz, Patricia Dillon, David H. Feldman, and Paul F. Whiteley
, Barry Eichengreen
, I. M. Destler
, David H. Feldman
, Beth V. Yarbrough
, Gary C. Hufbauer
, Sylvia Ostry
, J. Michael Finger
, Geza Feketekuty
, Berhanu Abegaz
, Morris Goldstein and Jacob A. Frenkel
, Richard N. Cooper
, Thomas D. Willett
, Michele Fratianni
, Richard J. Sweeney
, Geoffrey Pridham
Paul F. Whiteley
, Per Magnus Wijkman
Guide
This book uses the European Community as a paradigm to address a wide-ranging set of issues concerning regional and multilateral approaches to trade liberalization and economic integration. The contributions are organized around broad themes including the state of the international economy, preferential trade arrangements, monetary integration, and the political dimensions of economic integration. The papers fall into three categories: lead papers which explore broad themes (Eichengreen, Yarbrough, Goldstein and Frenkel, Schmitter), comments on the theme papers, and short papers on selected issues raised but not fully addressed by the lead essays. The introduction by the editors provides a synthesis of the major findings and arguments, including their wider implications.
We are grateful to David Finifter and Thomas Willett for the invaluable support provided in the publication of this book. We acknowledge support from the Public Policy Program and the Department of Economics at William and Mary, the Delegation of the European Communities to the U.S., the Lowe Institute of Political Economy at Claremont McKenna College. Our thanks go to Wendy Watson, Sandy Hennessy and Mary Ferraro for assistance in preparing the manuscript.
Berhanu Abegaz
Patricia Dillon
David H. Feldman
Paul F. Whiteley
Berhanu Abegaz , Associate Professor of Economics, College of William and Mary.
Richard N. Cooper , Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics, Harvard University.
I. M. Destler , Professor, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland, and Director, Center for International Security Studies.
Patricia Dillon , Associate Professor of Economics, Scripps College.
Barry Eichengreen , Professor of Economics, University of California at Berkeley.
Geza Feketekuty , Senior Policy Advisor to the United States Trade Representative and chairman of the OECD Trade Committee.
David H. Feldman , Associate Professor of Economics, College of William and Mary.
J. Michael Finger , Lead Economist, Trade Policy Division, the World Bank.
Michele Fratianni , Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, Graduate School of Business, Indiana University.
Jacob A. Frenkel , Governor of the Bank of Israel.
Morris Goldstein , Deputy Director of the Research Department, International Monetary Fund.
Gary C. Hufbauer , Reginald Jones Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics.
Sylvia Ostry , Chair, Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto.
Geoffrey Pridham , Director of the Centre for Mediterranean Studies, University of Bristol, and Reader, Department of Politics.
Philippe C. Schmitter , Professor of Political Science, Stanford University.
Richard J. Sweeney , Sullivan/Dean Professor of International Business and Finance, School of Business Administration, Georgetown University.
Paul F. Whiteley , Pamela C. Harriman Professor of Government and Public Policy, College of William and Mary.
Per Magnus Wijkman , Director, Economic Affairs Department, European Free Trade Association.
Thomas D. Willett , Horton Professor of Economics, Claremont Graduate School and Claremont McKenna College.
Beth V. Yarbrough , Chair, Department of Economics, Amherst College.
Part One
Introduction
1
Introduction: The Challenge of European Integration
Berhanu Abegaz , Patricia Dillon , David H. Feldman and Paul F. Whiteley
After World War II, most nationscertainly all the prosperous ones pursued the benefits of multilateral reduction in the barriers to international trade. Against the background of a bipolar political order (i.e., the first, second, and third worlds), the West expected a liberal trade regime, institutionalized in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), to yield prosperity and stability in international economic relations.