Full Description
This volume focuses on one of the most innovative deep integration constructs, The Pacific Alliance, which aims at expanding the frontiers of trade and investment governance in Latin America. It draws on a conference held at Externado University in Bogota, Colombia, in November 2015, bringing together leading scholars, practitioners and officers of public, regional and international organisations interested in a critical analysis of the Alliance, its distinctiveness and likely future directions. The volume features contributions from the multi-disciplinary lens of law, political science and economics.
The Pacific Alliance, comprising Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, aims through a participatory and consensual manner to promote the free circulation of goods, services, capital and persons among its members, and to secure deep economic integration through collaboration across a broader set of policy areas than typically obtains in more traditional preferential trade agreements. This volume is of interest to policy makers and staff of international organizations involved in trade and investment negotiations, international economic governance in general as well as faculty, researchers and graduate students of these topics and of international political economy and comparative regionalism.
Contents
The Pacific Alliance in a World of Preferential Trade Agreements: An Introduction (Pierre Sauvé, Rodrigo Polanco Lazo and José Manuel Álvarez Zárate).- Part 1. Situating the Pacific Alliance in Comparative Context.- Chapter 1. The Pacific Alliance: Building a Pathway to the High-Hanging Fruits of Deep Integration (Ana María Palacio).- Chapter 2. Trade and Investment Relations in the Pacific Alliance: Recent Developments and Future Trends (José Durán Lima and Daniel Cracau).- Chapter 3. The Pacific Alliance: WTO+ and WTO-X? (Camilo Pérez Restrepo and Alma Sofía Castro Lara).- Chapter 4. A Global Value Chain-Friendly Construct? The Pacific Alliance and International Production Networks (Iza Lejárraga).- Chapter 5. Trade, Economic and Political Integration in Latin America: The Common Market of the South (Mercosur) and the Pacific Alliance (Andrés Rebolledo Smitmans and Nicolás Albertoni Gómez).- Chapter 6. Joining the Pacific Alliance: Costa Rican Perspectives (Susana Wong and Carolina Palma).- Part 2. The Pacific Alliance's Substantive Disciplines: Current and Future Challenges.- Chapter 7. Services commitments in the Pacific Alliance (Doris López, Felipe Muñoz and Angélica Corvalán).- Chapter 8. Darwinism and Liberalization of Trade in Services: What's the Connection? (Eric Leroux).- Chapter 9. The International Investment Agreements of the Pacific Alliance Members and their Relationship of "Coexistence" with Chapter 10 of the Pacific Alliance Additional Protocol (Víctor Saco).- Chapter 10. Situating the Pacific Alliance in Global Electronic Commerce Regulation (María del Carmen Vásquez Callo-Müller).- Chapter 11. The Pacific Alliance: adding value to the global intellectual property rights regime? (Rodrigo Corredor).- Chapter 12. Law and Competition Policy in a Regional Context: Pacific Alliance Insights from the European Union's Experience (Ulf Thoene and Loly Aylú Gaitán-Guerrero).- Chapter 13. Dispute Settlement in the Pacific Alliance (José Manuel Álvarez and Diana Beltrán).
