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In order for the ideal of international trade to become reality, customs procedures dating back centuries must be eliminated and replaced with modernized practices designed to foster cooperation and efficiency in world trade.

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Destined to become a leading case study of export-led development in Indonesia, this book grew out of a World Bank/Indonesian Economic Society Symposium held in Jakarta.

There was, however, a parallel story as well, of crony capitalism and weak governance, that led to the financial and political crisis of 1997-98.

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Although the political and military aspects of great-power diplomacy in Eastern Europe during the interwar period have been studied extensively, the economic aspects have been relatively neglected. Drawing on documentary material that has only recently been made available, David Kaiser redresses the balance in his discussion of the expansion of Ger

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As the prime force behind trade throughout the Western Hemisphere, the United States is emerging with two trade projects--the newly-signed North American Free Trade Agreement and the projected New American Community.

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These essays highlight the implications of China's economic transition since 1978 for Sino-American business and trade. Each chapter assesses the implications of China's economic and trade reforms from a different perspective.

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Presents an account of the politics of opening agricultural markets that explains how the institutional context of international negotiations alters the balance of interests at the domestic level to favor trade liberalization despite opposition from powerful farm groups.

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Medical information sciences are emerging as a vital field of study and practice. The volume brings together scholars and practitioners from disciplines concerned with the acquisition, analysis, accessibility, and application of information in medical practice and health care.

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Offers insights into the fundamental policy issues involved in agricultural biotechnology. This book explains the global regulatory polarization and trade conflict in this area. It then evaluates cooperative and unilateral policy tools for coping with trade tensions.

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Part I examines the legal issues of commodity trade, investigating the debate over whether international trade agreements create hard law or soft law. Part II discusses the political economy of contemporary global trade issues, including the rise of intraindustry trade and discrimination in international trade.

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Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson present a coherent picture of trade, migration, and international capital flows in the Atlantic economy in the century prior to 1914the first great globalization boom, which anticipated the experience of the last fifty years.

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The first authoritative account of the fashioning of the Free Trade Agreement between Australia and the USA reveals how the Australian government has deliberately and surreptitiously sacrificed Australia's interests in the deluded pursuit of a special relationship' with the superpower.

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Covers the issues of co-operation or competition between governments to obtain sustained supply of commodities at remunerative prices to producers and acceptable to consumers. It provides a scientific analysis of the positions of producers of oil and other commodities as well as their consumers.

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Barter or countertrade is the oldest form of trade--dating back to man's earliest history. The heart of the book focuses upon such technical aspects of countertrade as financing, law, operations and strategy, and proposes the development of a marketable security for countertrade credits.

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A concise, yet complete study of the theory of international trade and foreign lending. The author discusses two of the major models used to discuss trade: the Theory of Comparative Advantage, and the Heckscher-Ohlin model. free trade arguments and applies the basic trade model to international lending.

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Provides a different approach to an old debate in political economy - that over whether class conflict or group competition is more prevalent in politics. This book outlines the conditions under which one type of political conflict is more likely than the other. It is useful to those interested in understanding developments in trade policy.

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This book is a political history of the Tokyo Round (1973--1979), the largest and most significant multilateral trade negotiation since the founding of the GATT in 1947. Gilbert Winham provides a detailed account of the processes by which the negotiation was accomplished and an assessment of the Tokyo Round's substantive impact on the international

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The U.S. computer software industry dominates the globe. Siwek and Furchtgott-Roth identify the principal areas of advantage held by the U.S. software industry and they go on to assess the future prospects of U.S. software in world markets.

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The decade of the 1980s has been full of disputes between industrialized countries and newly industrialized ones, between developing countries and Northern markets, and between Japan, the U.S., and the European community on a wide range of issues.

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Although Latin America had a substantial merchant fleet by the 1950s, at the end of the century most of the major shipping companies have disappeared from the continent.