Syed Javed Maswood - Trade, Development and Globalization

Trade, Development and Globalization

This book provides a longitudinal study of developing-country involvement in multilateral trade negotiations.

The trade regime established at the end of the Second World War did not cater for, and in some cases excluded, the developmental interests of the newly independent countries. This book offers a detailed analysis of:

The first attempts to revise the trade regime in the 1960s through the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the formation of the Group of 77 to enhance their bargaining potential.

The mixed coalition strategy, with the Cairns Group in the Uruguay Round of the GATT.

The new bargaining coalition, the Group of 20, that took on a much more confrontational and assertive bargaining position in the unsuccessful Doha Round of the World Trade Organization.

In , the author explores the possibility that economic globalization may finally deliver to developing countries what they had failed to achieve in five decades of multilateral negotiations an opportunity to climb the industrialization ladder and achieve development. The book offers a proposal for revising the format of trade negotiations in a way that helps overcome stalemates and deadlocks.

Trade, Development and Globalization will be of interest to students and scholars of international trade, trade and development, negotiation, global governance, political economy, international relations and economics.

S. Javed Maswood is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at The American University in Cairo, Egypt.

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Trade, Development and Globalization

S. Javed Maswood

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Maswood, Syed Javed.

Trade, development and globalization / S. Javed Maswood.

1 Edition.

pages cm. (Routledge advances in international political economy ; 21)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Commerce. 2. Economic development. 3. Economic policy. 4. International economic relations. I. Title.

HF1008.M38 2013

382.9dc23

2013005386

ISBN: 9780415826990 (hbk)

ISBN: 9780203796719 (ebk)

Typeset in Sabon

by Swales & Willis Ltd, Exeter, Devon

Contents

PART I
Developing countries in multilateral negotiations

PART II
Developing countries, globalization and institutional reforms

Acknowledgements

This book began as a short study of agricultural negotiations in the Doha Round of World Trade Organization and evolved into a longitudinal analysis of developing-country efforts to secure a more favorable trade regime. Over the years I benefited from helpful advice and criticisms of many individuals and while it is not possible to name all of them I would like to express my gratitude to participants in various panels of the Asian Political and International Studies Association in Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta and Taichung, and to seminar participants at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington D.C., at the Griffith Asia Institute in Brisbane and in the Department of Political Science at American University in Cairo. I also would like to thank my research assistants, Meaghan Clark, William van der Veen and Daniel Mackisack. I acknowledge also the helpful suggestions by anonymous reviewers of the manuscript at Routledge. Finally, it remains for me to say that all remaining errors reflect my own shortcomings.