Negotiating the Free Trade Area of the Americas
Negotiating the Free Trade Area of the Americas

Author: Z. Arashiro

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-05-09

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 0230119050

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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.

Greening the Americas
Greening the Americas

Author: Carolyn Deere-Birkbeck

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 9780262541381

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"Many of the papers included in this volume were first presented and discussed in the Spring of 2000 at a conference on lessons from the NAFTA for the FTAA"--Pref.

South American Free Trade Area or Free Trade Area of the Americas?
South American Free Trade Area or Free Trade Area of the Americas?

Author: Mario Esteban Carranza

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-22

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 135175338X

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This title was first published in 2000: This work examines the hemispheric diplomacy after the Summits of the America in Miami (December 1994) and Santiago (April 1998), focusing on the strengthening of the South American position in the FTAA negotiations and the Brazilian proposal for a South American Free Trade Area (SAFTA). The book also looks at the implications of the preceding analysis for regional integration theory and international relations theory. The conclusion looks beyond "open regionalism" and considers three scenarios for US-South American relations after the Santiago Summit. First reassertion of US hegemony and signing of an FTAA agreement on schedule, second, erosion of US hegemony but continuing negotiations between North and South America for a "distant" FTAA, and finally, breakdown of the FTAA negotations and emergence of SAFTA as an alternative to the FTAA.