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1 online resource (238 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in Governance and Change in the Global Era |
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Routledge studies in governance and change in the global era.
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| Contents |
International Trade and Neoliberal Globalism Towards re-peripheralisation in Australia, Canada and Mexico?; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Permissions; 1 Introduction; 2 From lucky country to banana republic?: the political economy of Australian development in a long-run perspective; 3 The Australia-US Free Trade Agreement: reinforcing reperipheralisation; 4 Contesting neoliberal globalism in Australia: opportunities for progressive alternatives |
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5 State formation and class formations within the global context: the political economy of Canadian development in a long-run perspective6 Canada's free-trade agreements with the USA and Mexico: the exaggeration of North American trade; 7 Contesting neoliberal globalism in Canada: a sovereign country in an interdependent world; 8 From the Frontier of the Empire: the political economy of Mexican development in a long-run perspective; 9 Mexico and the North American Free Trade Agreement: reperipheralisation under the labour export-led model |
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10 Contesting neoliberal globalism in Mexico: challenges for the political and the social left11 Re-peripheralisation and its alternatives: comparative conclusions; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
International trade must be analysed within the historical context within which it occurs. Behind the statistics on trade flows lie power structures, class interests and international hierarchies. These change over time and how countries respond to them has critical implications for their citizen's well-being. In this book, the history of trade in Australia, Canada and Mexico is analysed. Trade agreements are analysed in detail to explore the new forms that dependence and subordination have taken. Arguing that the free trade agreements are significantly biased in favour of the |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Broomhill, Ray
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Gutiérrez-Haces, Teresa
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McBride, Stephen
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| ISBN |
9781134094899 |
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1134094892 |
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