Negotiating The Free Trade Area Of The Americas Zuleika Arashiro Palgrave Connect Online Service by Zuleika Arashiro; Palgrave Connect (online Service) 9780230119055, 0230119050 instant download after payment.

The first detailed historical account of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations, this book covers the genesis of the project in the early 1990s to its demise in late 2003. It examines how the FTAA, an Inter-American policy idea, was incompatible with the predominant ideas and beliefs of Brazilian and American decision makers as to how they could and should conduct their countries' foreign trade policy in the Western Hemisphere.  Read more... Part I. Analytical Framework -- Introduction -- Trade Cooperation as a Policy Idea -- Part II. The FTAA Negotiations -- The FTAA Negotiations -- Part III. Background -- Economic Paradigms and Trade Regionalism in Latin America -- Lessons from Economic Cooperation in the Americas -- Part IV. The Case Studies -- U.S. Foreign Trade Policy: Leadership in a Constrained System -- Brazilian Foreign Trade Policy: Instrument for an Autonomous Nation -- Part V. Conclusion