include bibliographical reference and index.

Introduction
PART I
Multilateralism, Regionalism and Bilateralism
Multilateralism: The Doha Round and the Hong Kong Declaration
The Honourable Christine Lagarde
Trade and Security Tango
The Honourable Tim Fischer
PART II
Policies and Strategies for Trade Liberalization
The Prisoners' Dilemma and FTAs: Applying Game Theory to Trade Liberalization Strategy
Meredith Kolsky Lewis
Japanese Policies toward East Asian Free Trade Agreements: Policy and Legal Perspectives
Mitsuo Matsushita
The RTA Strategy of China: A Critical Visit
Henry Gao
Stepping Stones and Stumbling Blocks: Vietnam's Regional Trade Arrangements and WTO Accession
Lisa Toohey
PART III
Established Models and Emerging
Models of FTAs
Regional Trade, the WTO and the NAFTA Model
Maureen Irish
The Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement
Andrew D. Mitchell
The Beginning of Economic Integration between East Asia and North America? The US-Korea FTA
Yong-Shik Lee
PART IV
Impact of FTAs on Specific Areas
Services and Investment in the Free Trade Agreements: Liberalization, Regulation and Law
Chris Arup
The Legitimacy and Purpose of Intellectual Property Chapters in FTAs
Susy Frankel
Developing States, the Generalized System of Preferences and Trade Measures to Enhance Human Rights
Dr Anthony E. Cassimatis
Preferential Trade and Cultural Products
Michael Hahn
Dispute Settlement under PTAs: Political or Legal?
David Morgan
Further Reading
Index

Progress in multilateral negotiations to liberalize trade under the World Trade Organization (WTO) has become more difficult since newer members are generally developing countries with different interests than the United States, the European Union and other industrialized countries.More than 250 free trade agreements (FTAs) have come into effect since 1948. Partly as a result of the WTO impasse, over 130 FTAs have been ratified just in the past ten years; each agreement has been designed to eliminate trade restrictions and subsidies between the parties involved. Almost all of the WTO Members participate in one or more FTAs (some Members are party to twenty or more).Most books on FTAs are country- or region-specific, while others deal with the subject from a particular perspective. This timely work - produced by some of the world's leading experts in their respective fields - employs a broader approach exploring FTAs from the interdisciplinary perspectives of international law, political economy, culture and human rights. (Source: WorldCat)