Coalitions, Developing Countries, and International Trade: Research Findings and Prospects

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 499-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
Trade Negotiations ◽  
Negotiation Tactics ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Global Diffusion

AbstractDeveloping countries increasingly invest in coalition building to effect gains in international trade negotiations. This essay reviews recent literature on coalitions to assess its contribution to our understanding of the causes, types, and effectiveness of developing country coalitions. In particular, the global diffusion of power is discussed as an important dynamic affecting coalitions in trade negotiations. Our understanding of how these coalitions operate would be strengthened by paying attention to the derivation of state interests, rather than specifying them exogenously, and to the negotiation tactics that states use when working in coalitions.

Trade negotiations and developing countries Negotiating Trade: Developing Countries in the WTO and NAFTA. Cambridge, Cambridge Edited by John S. Odell Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. xi, 298 Behind the Scenes at the WTO: The Real World of International Trade Negotiations By Fatoumata Jawara and Aileen Kwa London New York, Bangkok: Zed Books in association with Focus on the Global South, updated edition, 2004, pp. lxxxv, 329

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-148
Author(s):  
J. MICHAEL FINGER
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
Real World ◽  
Trade Negotiations ◽  
Relative Power ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Association With Focus ◽  
The Us ◽  
Working Out

The WTO, we hope, is an institution that mutes the importance of raw power – provides a system for working out problems among countries in which the interests of smaller countries are not always overwhelmed by those of larger. The two books reviewed both address this issue, but in different ways. The Odell volume (a collection of studies by different analysts) reviews a number of WTO events in which developed and developing country interests were at odds; e.g., the ‘bananas dispute’ involving Ecuador, the US, and the European Communities. The studies in that volume document the skill of developing country negotiators to use the system to their advantage; they demonstrate that the WTO process often came to outcomes more favorable to smaller countries than a simple weighing of relative power would imply.

scholarly journals How Distortions Alter the Impacts of International Trade in Developing Countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-238
Author(s):  
David Atkin ◽  
Amit K. Khandelwal
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Development Economics ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Market Failures ◽  
Trade Reforms ◽  
Weak Institutions

Substantial research in development economics has highlighted the presence of weak institutions, market failures, and distortions in developing countries. Yet much of the knowledge generated in international trade comes from workhorse models that abstract from these frictions. This review summarizes the recent literature that assesses how these characteristics interact (or may interact) with trade reforms, resulting in different impacts in developing countries relative to what we would expect in developed countries. We discuss understudied areas that warrant further research.

Trade Negotiations at the (Possible) End of Multilateral Institutionalism

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-52
Author(s):  
J.P Singh
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Uruguay Round ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
Trade Negotiations ◽  
Doha Round ◽  
Building Trade ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Negotiation Tactics ◽  
The World

Abstract Multilateral negotiations are often facilitated through international organizations, but are not coterminous with them. This essay advances a few ‘mid-level’ propositions with respect to the negotiation structure that provides an overall context and the negotiation process where tactics guide the exchange of concessions. In terms of negotiation structure, a stable institutional structure is giving rise to a transitional one resulting in system spoilers in international negotiations leading to deadlocks and no-agreements. The bargaining phases are marked with games of chicken and grand-standing making it hard to effectively practice common negotiation tactics such as coalition-building, trade-offs and linkages. The article provides examples from the Uruguay Round and the breakdown of the Doha Round of trade negotiations through the World Trade Organization. The essay’s propositions address the breakdown of existing multilateralism through international organizations, but also document the continuation of underlying multilateral principles.

Size matters

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 441-446
Author(s):  
RANSFORD SMITH
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Trade Negotiations ◽  
Trading System ◽  
Multilateral Trade ◽  
Small Economies

The two papers address questions related to the role and place of small, developing countries in the global trading system and in multilateral trade negotiations, reflecting the resurgence of interest in recent years in size-related constraints to development and to participation of small economies in international trade.

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