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SPRINGER Multilateralism Regionalism And Bilateralism In Trade And Investment 2007 Edition by DE LOMBAERDE, PHILIPPE
In 2001, the United Nations University launched UNU-CRIS, a research and training programme on comparative regional integration to study the role of regional integration in global governance. This is a timely product of the research undertaken at UNU-CRIS. The report represents a unique collaboration between all regional UN Economic Commissions. It focuses on one of the central issues in the debate on global governance. Forword, Philippe de Lombaerde and Luk van Langenhove.- Section I: Multilateralism, Regionalism and Bilateralism in Trade and Investment.- chapter 1. Developing countries' participation in regional integration: trends, prospects and policy implications, UNCTAD. - 2. Preferential Trading Arrangements for Developing Countries, Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis. - 3. Multi-Level Rulemaking in Trade and Investment, Steve Woolcock. - 4. Reconciling Regionalism and Multilateralism. Towards Multilevel Trade Governance, Brigid Gavin. - Section II: Regional Reports. - 5. Asia-Pacific Regionalism Quo Vadis? Charting the Territory for New Integration Routes, UN-ESCAP. - 6. Regional Integration in the Americas, UN-ECLAC. - 7. Regional Economic Integration in Africa, UN-ECA. - 8. Developments in Regional Integration in Western Asia and Arab Region, UN-ESCWA. - 9. Regional Cooperation and Integration in (South) East Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia, UN-ECE. - 10. Regional Integration in the European Union: Enlargement without Constitution, UNU-CRIS and GARNET. - Annex, UNU-CRIS/GARNET