This book provides a unique examination of how a middle power uses international organisations to achieve greater global influence. This detailed study of how a nation state engages with an international organisation will be a great source of insight and information for scholars and advanced...

The world economy is going through its biggest transformation in a relatively short space time. There have been many explanations for this phenomenon but the unprecedented scale and pace of this change and, most crucially, its implications, still seems little understood. In turn, there has been...

The launch of the ASEAN Economic Community raises key issues: the deepening of regional trade and the associated problem of exchange rate management. This volume questions the capacity of a shallow institution to deal with complex impacts on employment and inequality. Readers gain a clear...

A very brief history of the trading system -- The WTO in a nutshell -- Trade in goods -- Services, intellectual property, and plurilateral agreements -- Dispute settlement and transparency -- Developing countries and the multilateral trading system -- Whither the trading system?

In recent decades, globalization and internationalization led to an increase in the number of international regimes attempting to influence national behaviour over many different issues. By using the case of the international forest regime complex this thesis seeks to evaluate how an...

Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Setting the stage: A historical introduction to the OECD -- Part I Paradigm in the making: The emergence of economic growth as the key economic policy...

The emergence and deepening global economic crisis is in large part reflected in the operation of international financial institutions and their current structure. Long-term financial crisis has increased demands for decisive reform moves in operating and structure of the IMF, World Bank Group...

Bailouts sponsored by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are famous for their conditionality: in return for continued installments of desperately needed loans, governments must comply with austere policy changes. Many have suggested, however, that politically important countries face rather...

This paper argues that calls for a New Bretton Woods system in the aftermath of the global economic crisis - similar to the remarkable 1944 Bretton Woods conference that led to the establishment of various international economic institutions - are unlikely to be answered. The likely scenario is...

"This book contends that existing approaches leave out key aspects of the relationship between economic power and formal political power in multilateral economic institutions.Importantly,while existing works focus on either power or institutions as distinct realms,we must examine their...

The bretton woods & affiliates institutions -- The international financial institutions : architecture, flaws and legitimacy -- The international monetary fund -- The World Bank -- The international finance corporation -- The international development association -- The international center for...