Assignment Task: What role do international institutions and negotiations play in global commercial relations? What are the determinants and consequences of international cooperation in trade?
Readings/Articles
Hoekman, Bernard M. and Michel M. Kostecki. 2009. The Political Economy of the World Trading System. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-56. (Available online at the library).
Thies, Cameron and Timothy M. Peterson. 2015. Intra-Industry Trade: Cooperation and Conflict in the Global Political Economy. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. Chapters 3 and 4. (Available online at the library).
Hopewell, Kristen. 2016. Breaking the WTO: How Emerging Powers Disrupted the Neoliberal Project. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. Chapter 1. (Available online at the library).
Manger, Mark S. and Kenneth C. Shadlen. 2014. Political Trade Dependence and North-South Trade Agreements. International Studies Quarterly 58(1): 79-91.
Barton, John H., Judith L. Goldstein, Timothy E. Josling, and Richard H. Steinberg. 2006. The Evolution of the Trade Regime: Politics, Law, and Economics of the GATT and WTO. New York: Princeton University Press.
vogel, David. 1997. Trading Up: Environmental Regulation in a Global Economy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Instructions: Look for the articles above and answer the questions below.
What role do international institutions and negotiations play in global commercial relations? What are the determinants and consequences of international cooperation in trade? Based on this description. Write a reaction paper by connecting all the articles above, again how does each of the articles critique each other. Write your thoughts about it too. but be sure to also include some questions or thoughts from each reading that you would like to discuss.