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.

Autorentext
ZULEIKA ARASHIRO is Research and Policy Manager in the Financial Inclusion, Research and Policy Centre at the Brotherhood of St Laurence in Melbourne, Australia.

Inhalt
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