Cover -- International Trade and Developing Countries: Bargaining coalitions in the GATT & WTO -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Series preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The problem: what kinds of coalitions work, and why? -- Methodology -- The argument -- Plan of the book -- 1 Bargaining together: why and how? -- 1.1 Bargaining constraints of developing countries -- 1.2 Why bargain together? -- 1.3 Methods of coalition formation: a theoretical overview -- 1.4 Definitions and typologies -- 1.5 Conclusion -- 2 Coalitions in the GATT and the entry of services -- 2.1 Participation and coalitions: developing countries in the GATT -- 2.2 Introducing services in the GATT -- 2.3 'Shifting coalitions' in the GATT and WTO -- 2.4 Conclusion -- 3 Bloc diplomacy: the Informal Group and the G-10 -- 3.1 Roots of the G-10: the Informal Group -- 3.2 Factors and events: mobilising the coalition and evolving an agenda -- 3.3 Evaluating the G-10 -- 3.4 Preliminary theoretical findings and conclusion -- 4 Alliance diplomacy: The issue-based, crossover coalitions of G-20 and Café au Lait -- 4.1 First steps: formation of the Jaramillo Group -- 4.2 From Jaramillo process to Café au Lait coalition -- 4.3 Successes and limitations -- 4.4 Theoretical implications -- 4.5 Aftermath and conclusion -- 5 Combination diplomacy: Issue-based blocs and sub-sectoral crossover alliances -- 5.1 Issue-based bloc on services -- 5.2 Disaggregating services: sub-sector coalitions -- 5.3 External conditions: divisions within the developed world -- 5.4 Constraints and conditions for successes: sub-sector coalitions -- 5.5 Theoretical implications and conclusion -- 6 Evolved alliances: The Cairns Group and Friends of Services Group -- 6.1 The rise of the Cairns Group: origins and evolving agenda -- 6.2 Conditions conducive to successes.

6.3 Limitations and constraints -- 6.4 The Food Importers' Group: a comparison with the Cairns -- 6.5 Adapting the Cairns model: Friends of Services Group -- 6.6 Conclusion -- 7 Regionalism: A springboard for bargaining? -- 7.1 Regions: 'natural' bargaining coalitions? -- 7.2 The relationship between regional integration and effective bargaining -- 7.3 An alternative route to regional coalitions: the ASEAN example -- 7.4 Theoretical implications and conclusion -- 8 Coalitions of the new round: Developing countries at Seattle and Doha -- 8.1 The persistence and evolution of blocs -- 8.2 The record of alliances -- 8.3 Region-based coalitions -- 8.4 Conclusion -- 9 Conclusion -- 9.1 Necessary conditions for effective coalition formation -- 9.2 Classification and blueprint: what works, when, and for whom? -- 9.3 Strategies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

A keen analysis of how and why countries bargain together in groups in world affairs, and why such coalitions are crucial to individual developing nations. It also reveals the effects these negotiating blocs are having on world affairs. Successful coalition building has proven to be a difficult and expensive process. Allies are often not obvious and need to be carefully identified. Large numbers do not necessarily entail a proportionate increase in influence. And the weak have the choice of teaming up against or jumping on the bandwagon with the strong. Even after it has been organised, collective action entails costs of many kinds. This book investigates the relevance and workability of coalitions as instruments of bargaining power for the weak. More specifically, this analyzes the coalition strategies of developing countries at the inter-state level, particularly in the context of international trade. Given the nature of this enquiry, this new study uses theoretical and empirical methods to complement each other. The theoretical approach draws from a plethora of writings: formal theories of clubs and coalitions, theories of domestic political economy and theories of international relations. The empirical analysis of comparable coalitions becomes necessary to assist in this theorising, so the greater part of the book focuses mainly (though not exclusively) on coalitions involving developing countries on the issue-area of trade in services. Through the case-studies of the Uruguay Round and an analytical overview of more recent coalitions, this text fills an important gap in the literature of international political economy and international relations where most GATT/WTO-based coalitions have eluded record. This book will be of great interest to all students of international relations, politics and globalization.

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