Fast Track - A Legal, Historical, and Political Analysis

Fast track was conceived as a mundane procedural mechanism to enhance the president's credibility in negotiating complex multilateral trade agreements by streamlining the congressional approval process into an up-or-down vote in return for enhanced congressional oversight. It allows the President to negotiate international trade agreements knowing that Congress will provide a timely vote on the agreement without amendments. Given its seminal importance to the trade debate, however, fast track has acquired greater significance and controversy.

Product details

• Authors: Hal Shapiro
• Publisher: Koninklijke Brill NV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.07.2006
• EAN: 9781571051783
• ISBN: 978-1-57105-178-3
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 242 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 817 g
• Series: International Law and Developm; Brill | Nijhoff
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law