Competitive Regionalism: FTA Diffusion in the Pacific Rim (International Political Economy Series)

. Ed(s): Solis, Mireya; Stallings, Barbara; Katada, Saori

ISBN 10: 0230577784 / ISBN 13: 9780230577787

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Despite abundant scepticism about their economic benefits, Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) have proliferated at a rapid pace. Policy diffusion models explain how different sets of preferential trade agreements are interconnected and establish under what conditions FTAs can work for or against the emergence of coherent regional blocs. Editor(s): Solis, Mireya; Stallings, Barbara; Katada, Saori. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 306 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; JFFS; JPS; KCLT; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 515. . 2009. 2009th Edition. hardcover. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Competitive Regionalism: FTA Diffusion in the Pacific Rim (International Political Economy Series)
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230577784
• ISBN 13: 9780230577787
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Despite abundant scepticism about their economic benefits, Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) have proliferated at a rapid pace. Policy diffusion models explain how different sets of preferential trade agreements are interconnected and establish under what conditions FTAs can work for or against the emergence of coherent regional blocs.

About the Author

MIREYA SOL?S is Associate Professor at the School of International Service of American University, Washington D.C., USA. She is the author of Banking on Multinationals (2004) and co-editor of Cross-Regional Trade Agreements (2008). 
  
BARBARA STALLINGS is William R. Rhodes Research Professor at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Providence, USA, and editor of Studies in Comparative International Development. Previously, she was Director or the Economic Development Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, and Professor of Political Economy, University of Wisconsin, USA. Her most recent book is Finance for Development: Latin America in Comparitive Perspective. 
  
SAORI N. KATADA is Associate Professor at the School of International Relations, University of Southern California, USA. Her book Banking on Stability: Japan and the Cross-Pacific dynamics of International Financial Crisis Management (2001) has received a Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Book Award.