Advanced Search Results For "international organizations"
Your filters
Power, knowledge and resistance: between co-optation and revolution in global trade.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Oct2017, Vol. 24 Issue 5, p741-775. 35p.
Abstract: It has been recognised that the process of multilateral trade negotiations has been fundamentally altered by the increased involvement of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) since the Uruguay Round. NGOs have helped to increase the voice of the devel...
Leveling-up: explaining the depth of South-South trade agreements.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Oct2022, Vol. 29 Issue 5, p1601-1624. 24p.
Abstract: Conventional wisdom holds that not all preferential trade agreements (PTAs) are alike. Trade agreements between developed and developing countries (North-South PTAs) tend to be characterized by great depth, such that they include chapters for many trad...
The tools of globalization: ways of regulating and the structure of the international regime for pharmaceuticals.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Dec2015, Vol. 22 Issue 6, p1249-1275. 27p.
Abstract: This article investigates the relationship between regulatory globalization and neoliberal standard-setting arrangements building on industry capacities and responsibilities. Focusing on international pharmacovigilance, it recounts the history of the W...
Smoke screen? The globalization of production, transnational lobbying and the international political economy of plain tobacco packaging.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Feb2017, Vol. 24 Issue 1, p87-118. 32p.
Abstract: In 2012, Australia became the first country in the world to introduce plain tobacco packaging in an effort to reduce tobacco consumption. This move was vehemently opposed by the tobacco industry, which challenged it on several levels: nationally, bilat...
Legacies and innovations in global economic governance since Bretton Woods.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Dec2019, Vol. 26 Issue 6, p1089-1111. 23p.
Abstract: The international economic system that emerged after the 1944 Bretton Woods conference became the most durable international arrangement devoted to economic openness. Seventy-five years after the conference, however, global shifts in power, institution...
Cartels, competition, and coalitions: the domestic drivers of international orders.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Dec 2021, Vol. 28 Issue 6, p1652-1676. 25p.
Abstract: Most theoretical and empirical accounts of trade politics focus on political conflict among competing private interest groups and over policies between the dichotomy of trade liberalization and protectionism. This article challenges this conceptualizat...
Rights redux: the return of human rights at the WTO.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Aug2023, p1-23. 23p.
Abstract: Abstract The conventional wisdom is that human rights have long been off the negotiating agenda at the World Trade Organization (WTO). The failed attempt by Northern states to include a ‘social clause’ in WTO rules during the late 1990s and early 2000s...
Regionalism from without: External involvement of the EU in regionalism in southern Africa.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Aug2013, Vol. 20 Issue 4, p917-946. 30p.
Abstract: Theories and analyses of regionalism, from both ‘orthodox' and ‘critical' strands of international political economy (IPE), have tended to conceptualise regional integration as a process led byintra-regionalactors typically in reaction to external forc...
Prospects for deepening Mercosur integration: Economic asymmetry and institutional deficits.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Jun2013, Vol. 20 Issue 3, p515-540. 26p.
Abstract: Mercosur faces a number of challenges in furthering its regional integration. This article considers whether theories developed for European regionalism, such as neo-functionalism and liberal inter-governmentalism, provide a suitable framework for anal...
Silences of Bretton Woods: gender inequality, racial discrimination and environmental degradation.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Oct2023, Vol. 30 Issue 5, p1701-1722. 22p.
Abstract: In the formal deliberations of the Bretton Woods conference, little was said about gender inequality, racial discrimination, or environmental degradation. At the time, however, the significance of these issues to international economic governance was p...