Govt promises to help auto industry.
NEW DELHI: Auto companies which have seen dwindling sales and are complaining of adverse impact of free trade pacts had something to cheer about on Wednesday with the government promising protection besides hope of help from government if sales remained subdued till the month-end. First came the...

Why Are Some Trade Agreements `Greener' than Others?
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the European Union (EU) have done much towards erasing borders and boundaries between nations in the name of free trade. This movement towards a new global era, however, raises concerns on the environmental front. An examination of two toxic disposal controversies...

Competition and co-operation in the semi-periphery: closer economic partnership and sectoral transformations in Chile and New Zealand.
A co-operative partnership with a competitive dynamic Bilateral and multilateral treaties in a context of economic globalization have persisted as a seemingly paradoxical backdrop to the market liberalization processes that have become such a dominant feature of international development since the mid-1980s (Gwynne et al. 2003; Dent...

Roundtable: Peter J. Katzenstein's contributions to the study of east Asian regionalism.
Peter J. Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi, eds. Network Power: Japan and Asia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. Peter J. Katzenstein and Nobuo Okawara. "Japan, Asian-Pacific Security, and the Case for Analytical Eclecticism," International Security 26, no. 3 (2001-2002): 153-185. Peter J. Katzenstein. A World of...

NAFTA Chapter XI and Canada's environmental sovereignty: investment flows, Article 1110 and Alberta's Water Act.
I INTRODUCTION II BACKGROUND Foreign Direct Investment Past, Present and Future Canadian Treatment of FDI Policy Objectives of NAFTA Chapter XI III CANADA'S INVESTMENT OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE FTA AND NAFTA Chapter XVI of the FTA Chapter XI of NAFTA IV THE INCONSISTENT TREATMENT OF CANADA'S INVESTMENT OBLIGATIONS: EXPROPRIATION &...

Vietnam's ASEAN membership revisited: golden opportunity or golden cage?
In early 1991 I conducted a series of interviews in Jakarta with senior government officials and scholars on their perception of Indonesia's role in ASEAN. This was the twilight period between the end of the Cold War and an emerging new international order that had yet to take shape....

Who's isolating whom?: Title III of the Helms-Burton Act and compliance with international law.
I. INTRODUCTION James Osborne's heirs want the White House back;(1) and because they are Canadians, they cannot run for president. But fortunately, Canadian Members of Parliament Peter Milliken and John Godfrey have introduced legislation that would allow the descendants of some 80,000 British loyalists to claim compensation...

Are corporate information assets, in the midst of dynamic technological and infrastructural advances, best secured by legal or self-help remedies?
I. INTRODUCTION II. MODERN INCARNATIONS OF TRADE SECRET THEFT A. Federal Surveillance and Disclosure Generally 1. Is Computer Surveillance Subject to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986? 2. Key Logger Systems and Similar Technologies 3. National Security and Intellectual Property 4. The Electronic Communications Protection Act 5. The...

ASEAN gov'ts warned on FTAs.
Byline: BERNIE CAHILES-MAGKILAT ASEAN businessmen have warned developing and least developed ASEAN economies, including the Philippines, against rushing into bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) with developed countries saying the poorer economies are put at a more disadvantageous position because they have weaker bargaining power. This...

PM reclaims foreign policy turf.
NEW DELHI: In his reply to the parliamentary debate on the nuclear deal on Thursday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh set out an important benchmark-- that foreign policy and international treaties are the sole preserve of the executive, not the legislature. This is an important setting of the...