Gatt and Global Order in the Postwar Era

List of contents

Introduction: GATT in World Affairs; 1. Accidental Organization: Origins and Early Years of GATT; 2. 'An Arrow in the Western World's Quiver': The Cold War Challenge to GATT; 3. 'Take It or Leave It': The EEC Challenge to GATT; 4. 'Spread Like the Plague': The Regional Challenge to GATT; 5. 'Rich Man's Club': The Development Challenge to GATT; 6. 'Agricultural Anarchy': The Agriculture Challenge to GATT; Conclusion: The Embattled History of GATT.

About the author

Francine McKenzie is a Professor at the University of Western Ontario. She is an international historian who has published extensively on international cooperation, trade, and global order. Her publications include Redefining the Bonds of Commonwealth, 1939-1948 (2002), A Global History of Trade and Conflict since 1500 (2013) and Dominion of Race: Rethinking Canada's International History (2017).

Summary

In this international and institutional history of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Francine McKenzie shows how trade was implicated in foreign policy and international relations in the postwar era. This accessibly written and timely study revises our understanding of the liberal international order.

Additional text

'This bold book brings into one place the issues, events, debates, policies, and people of the GATT during its half-century history. This is both a survey and an in-depth, multi-archival examination of a major institution – a truly amazing undertaking with results that are oftentimes breath-taking in their scope.' Tom Zeiler, University of Colorado Boulder

Product details

• Authors: Francine McKenzie, Francine (University of Western Ontario) Mckenzie, McKenzie Francine
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781108494892
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49489-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, Economic history, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, International institutions, International Trade, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), International economic & trade law, International trade and commerce, International Organisations & Institutions, Public international law: economic and trade, International institutions / intergovernmental organizations