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.
ZULEIKA ARASHIRO is Research and Policy Manager in the Financial
Inclusion, Research and Policy Centre at the Brotherhood of St Laurence in Melbourne,
Australia.
Table of Contents
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
284 pages, Hardcover