The Hebrew University
Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of International Relations
REGIONAL ECONOMIC AGREEMENTS (58314)
Professor Alfred Tovias
Jean Monnet Chair
Lecture, academic year 2012-13, winter semester, 2 credit points, Tuesdays, 12:30-14:00, Room 1710 (Social Sciences).
Telephone: 025881053; Fax: 025882919
Reception hour: Mondays, 16:30-17:30, Room 5422 (Social Sciences)
Email address: mstovi@huji.ac.il
Teaching assistant: Omer Gendler
Email address: omer.gendler@mail.huji.ac.il
Reception hour: Thursday, 13:30-14:30, Room 5402 (Social Sciences)
Reception hour: Thursday, 13:30-14:30, Room 5402 (Social Sciences)
Description of the course
The central issue discussed in this course is the question of whether or not a world of rival regional trading blocks competing among themselves is currently emerging.. First, patterns of the geographic distribution of world trade in goods and services will be examined. Thereafter will be analyzed the reasons that led to the rapid expansion of regional trade arrangements as from the mid 1970s, first in Europe and/or in cooperation with it (the EC, EFTA), as well as in the rest of the World (ASEAN, NAFTA, MERCOSUR). The different arrangements will be analyzed distinguishing between old and new forms of economic integration (such as deep integration). Additionally, an analysis of the position taken by the WTO regarding trade preferences will also be included. Some attention will be given, if time allows, to Israel's trade and other economic agreements with other countries and international economic organizations (including the OECD).
Program
International economics as an academic discipline. International trade: its qualitative and quantitative importance. Economic effects of trade liberalization. The international trade regime after 1945, the GATT and the WTO (World Trade Organization). GATS. Discriminatory trade liberalization. Different forms of economic integration. Their link with trade discrimination. The Theory of Customs Unions and other theories of economic integration. The Most-Favoured-Nation rule. Article 24 of GATT and article 5 of GATS. The old regionalism: The European Economic Community (EEC). EFTA. Deepening and Enlargements of the EC and its successor, the EU (European Union). The New Regionalism: NAFTA, MERCOSUR, AFTA and ASEAN. Rules of origin: preferential and non-preferential. Regional trade agreements in Africa and Central America. Cross-regionalism and other deviations from regionalism. Israel's free trade agreements.
Credit for the course
It is based on a final comprehensive written exam (100% of the final mark).
Towards the exam students must:
- Read and sum up the obligatory readings marked with an asterisk. Questions will be included in the final exam regarding the readings.
- Learn what has been presented in class. Therefore the students are strongly encouraged to attend the lectures.
NOTE: The final exam will take the form of a questionnaire in English with closed and probably some open questions. Students are strongly encouraged to answere to the open questions in the final exam, as well as intervene in class in English. However students are exceptionally allowed to answer the open questions in the exam also in the following languages: Hebrew, French and Spanish.
Readings
Anderson, Kym and Richard Blackhurst (eds.), Regional Integration and the Global Trading System, New York : St. Martin ’s Press, 1993. HF 1418.5 R44 (1156435)
Appendini, Kirsten and Sven Bislev (eds.), Economic Integration in NAFTA and the EU: Deficient Institutionality, Basingstoke , UK
Baldwin, Richard E., Towards an Integrated Europe, London : CEPR, 1994. HC 241.2 B25 (1130712)
Belous, Richard S. and Rebecca S. Hartley (eds.), The Growth of Regional Trading Blocs in the Global Economy, Washington , D.C.: National Planning Association, 1990. HF 1411 B41
(1060878)
Bhagwati, Jagdish, “The Threats to the World Trade System,” The World Economy, Vol. 15, No. 4, July 1992, pp. 443-546. (0218114)
Bhagwati, Jagdish, Pravin Krishna and Arvind Panagariya (eds.), Trading Blocs: Alternative Approaches to Analyzing Preferential Trade Agreements, Cambridge : The MIT Press, 1999. HF 1418.7 T73 (1199464)
*Bindi, Federiga (ed.), The Foreign Policy of the European Union, Washington, Brookings Institution Press, 2010, pp.13-40; 99-115; 155-96; 220-29;239-62; 273-89.(Highlearn).
*Bollard, A. and D. Mayes, “Regionalism and the Pacific Rim,” Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 30, No. 2, June 1992, pp. 195-210. (0216943)
Bonser, Charles .F. (ed.), Toward a North American Common Market: Problems and Prospects for a New Economic Community, Boulder : Westview Press, 1991. HC 95 T69 (1078172)
Cable, Vincent and David Henderson (eds.), Trade Blocs: The Future of Regional Integration, London : Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1994. HF 1418.5 T695 (1147205)
Carkoglu, Ali, Mine Eder and Kemal Kirisci, The Political Economy of Regional Cooperation in the Middle East, London: Routledge, 1998. HC 415.15 C37 (1200551)
Cook, Ian G., Marcus A. Doel, Rex li (eds.), Fragmented Asia: Regional Integration and National Disintegration in Pacific Asia, Aldershot , UK
Cooper, A. “NAFTA and the Politics of Regional Trade,” In Hocking, Brian and Steven McGuire (eds.), Trade Politics, London : Routledge, 1999, pp. 229-245. HF 1379 T733 1999 (1225877)
Cooper, R., “Blocks: Making the Best of a ‘Second-Best’ Solution,” In Belous, Richard S. and Rebecca S. Hartley (eds.), The Growth of Regional Trading Blocs in the Global Economy, Washington, D.C.: National Planning Association, 1990, pp. 30-35. HF 1411 B41 (1060878)
*Crawford, Jo-Ann and Florentino, Roberto V., The Changing Landscape of Regional Trade Agreements, Geneva , WTO, Discussion Paper No. 8, 2005. (NNL 002487653)
Crombois. J., “The US-Morocco Free Trade Agreement,” Mediterranean Politics, Vol. 10, No. 2, July 2005, pp. 219-24.
Croome, John, Reshaping the World Trading System, 2nd ed., The Hague : Kluwer Law International, 1999. HF 1711 C76 1999 (1260263)
*Davidson, Paul J., “ASEAN: The Legal Framework for Its Trade Relations,” International Journal, Vol. 49, No. 3, Summer 1994, pp. 588-612. (0216809)
Demaret, Paul, Jean-Francois Bellis and Gonzalo Garcia Jimenez (eds.), Regionalism and Multilateralism after the Uruguay Round: Convergence, Divergence and Interaction, Brussels , European Interuniversity
Devuyst, Youri, “GATT Customs Union Provisions and the Uruguay Round: The European Community Experience,” Journal of World Trade, Vol. 26, No. 1, February 1992, pp. 15-34. (1036424)
EFTA, The European Free Trade Association: Structure, Rules and Operation, Geneva , EFTA Secretariat, 1980. HF 1531 E9 (1006326)
El-Agraa, Ali M., “Integration Amongst Members of the Arab League,” in El-Agraa, Ali M., Economic Integration Worldwide, London : Macmillan Press, 1997, pp. 320-347.
El-Agraa, Ali M., “ Fortress and Three Trading Blocs?,” in El-Agraa, Ali M., Economic Integration Worldwide, London : Macmillan Press, 1997, pp. 368-378.
El-Agraa, Ali M., “Regional Trade Arrangements Worldwide,” in El-Agraa, Ali M., Economic Integration Worldwide, London : Macmillan Press, 1997, pp. 12-33.
El-Agraa, Ali M. and Shelton M.A. Nicholls, “The Caribbean Community and Common Market,” in El-Agraa, Ali M., Economic Integration Worldwide, London: Macmillan Press, 1997, pp. 278-296.
Emerson, Michael, Marius Vahl and Stephen Woolcock, Navigating by the Stars: Norway , the European Economic Area and the European Union, Brussels : Centre for European Policy Studies, 2002.
Fawcett, Louise and Andrew Hurrell (eds.), Regionalism in World Politics: Regional Organization and World Order, Oxford : Oxford University
Frankel, Jeffrey A. (ed.), The Regionalization of the World Economy, Chicago : The University of Chicago
Frankel, Jeffrey A. and Shang-Jin Wei, Open Regionalism in a World on Continental Trade Blocs, Washington: IMF Working Paper, WP/98/10.
Galal, Ahmed and Bernard Hoekman (eds.), Regional Partners in Global Markets: Limits and Possibilities of the Euro-Med Agreements, London : Centre for Economic Policy Research, 1997. HC 241.2 R455 (1199348)
Gamble, Andrew and Anthony Payne, Regionalism and World Order, New York : St. Martin ’s Press, 1996. JX 1395 R375 (1157859)
Garson, Jean-Pierre (ed.), Migration, Free Trade and Regional Integration in North America, Paris : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, c1998. JV 6351 M54 1998 (1270807)
Geiger, Till and Dennis Kennedy (eds.), Regional Trade Blocs, Multilateralism and the GATT: Complementary Paths to Free Trade?, London : Pinter, 1996. HF 1418.7 R44 (1174785)
Gianaris, Nicholas V., The North American Free Trade Agreement and the European Union, Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1998. HF 1746 G53 (1183985)
Grugel, Jean and Wil Hout (eds.), Regionalism Across the North-South Divide: State Strategies and Globalization, London : Routledge, 1999. HF 1359 R433 (1201013)
Grugel, Jean., “New Regionalism and Modes of Governance-Comparing US and EU Strategies in Latin America ,” European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 10, No. 4, 2004, pp. 603-626.
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Hufbauer, Gary C. and Jeffrey J. Schott, NAFTA: An Assessment, Washington DC
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*Kaltenthaler, Karl and Frank O. Mora, “Explaining Latin American Economic Integration: The Case of Mercosur,” Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 9, No. 1, March 2002, pp. 72-97. (1113971)
* Karns, Margaret P. and Karen A. Mingst, International Organizations.The Politics and Processes of Global Governance , Boulder : Lynne Rienner, 2004, pp. 145-152;189-198 and 204-206. JZ 4850 K37 2004 (001359551)
Koopmann, Georg, “Growing Regionalism-A Major Challenge to the Multilateral Trading System,” Intereconomics, No. 5, September/October 2003, pp. 237-241.
Krenzler, H.G. and G. Wiegand, “EU-US Relations: More Than Trade Disputes?,” European Foreign Affairs Review, Vol. 4, No. 2, Summer 1999, pp. 153-180 (1165899)
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*Laursen, Finn, Philippe G. Nell, Iver B. Neumann, Jan I. Haaland, Clive Church, T. Wieser and E. Kitzmantel, “European Community, EFTA and the New Europe: Changing Dimensions of Economic Integration in Europe,” Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 28, No. 4, June 1990, pp. 299-449. (0216943)
LeClair, Mark S., Regional Integration and Global Free Trade: Addressing the Fundamental Conflicts, Aldershot , UK
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Mattli, Walter, The Logic of Regional Integration, Cambridge : Cambridge University
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Mestral, Armand de and Jan Winter, “Dispute Settlement under the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Treaty of European Union,” Revue d’Integration europeenne, Vol. 17, No. 2-3, hiver-printemps 1994, pp. 235-266.
Muller-Brandeck-Bocquet, Gisela, “Perspectives for a New Regionalism: Relations between the EU and the Mercosur,” European Foreign Affairs Review, Vol. 5, No. 4, Winter 2000, pp. 561-579. (1165899)
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Oyejide, Ademola, Ibrahim Elbadawi and Paul Collier (eds.), Regional Integration and Trade Liberalization in Subsaharan Africa, London : Macmillan Press, 1997. HC 800 R44 (1153882)
Panagariya, Arvind, “EU Preferential Arrangements and Developing Countries,” The World Economy, Vol. 25, No. 10, November 2002, pp. 1415-1432.
Pederson, Thomas, European Union and the EFTA Countries: Enlargement and Integration, London : Pinter, 1994. HC 241.2 P383 (1142605)
Péridy, Nicolas, “Towards a New Trade Policy Between the USA
Phillips, Nicola, “Regionalist Governance in the New Political Economy of Development: “Relaunching” the Mercosur,” Third World Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 4, August 2001, pp. 565-583.
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Pomfret, Richard, “ The Association of South-East Asian Nations,” in El-Agraa, Ali M., Economic Integration Worldwide, London : Macmillan Press, 1997, pp. 297-319.
Porter, Tony, “The North American Free Trade Agreement,” in Stubbs, Richard and Geoffrey R.D. Underhill, Political Economy and the Changing Global Order, 2nd Ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. HF 1411 P65 (1127862)
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*Ravenhill, John, “APEC Adrift: Implications for Economic Regionalism in Asia and the Pacific,” Pacific Review, Vol. 13, No. 2, June 2000, pp. 319-333. (e-journal)
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טוביאס, אלפרד, "השלכות של יצירת מרחב כלכלי אירופי על מדינות לא חברת ועל איזורים פריפריים במדינות חברות – הערכה איכותית," בתוך: צימרמן, משה וורנר ויידנפלד, מעבר לריבונות?: האינטגרציה האירופאית, ירושלים: אקדמון, 1996, עמ' 213-224. JN 15 M58 (1156447)
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3. Journal of World Trade
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