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Green Politics and Global Trade - NAFTA and the Future of Environmental Politics (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,240
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Green Politics and Global Trade - NAFTA and the Future of Environmental Politics (Paperback): John J. Audley

Green Politics and Global Trade - NAFTA and the Future of Environmental Politics (Paperback)

John J. Audley

Series: American Governance and Public Policy series

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Environmental groups for the first time formalized their role in shaping U.S. and international trade policy during their involvement in NAFTA negotiations. John J. Audley identifies the political forces responsible for forging this new intersection of trade and environment policy during NAFTA negotiations, analyzes the achievements of the environmentalists, and explores their prospects for influencing future trade policy.

The need to reconcile the conflicting paradigms of economic expansion through free trade and that of limited sustainable development played a significant part in the political debate. Reluctant to acknowledge any relationship between these two principles, traditional trade policy actors were forced to include environmental interest groups in negotiations when the latter seriously threatened the treaty by aligning themselves with other anti-NAFTA interest groups, particularly labor. Other environmental groups worked with trade advocates to secure compromises in the agreement. The final bill included unprecedented environmental provisions, but not without serious infighting within the environmentalist community.

Drawing on his access to private as well as public documents exchanged among participants, Audley explores the interactions among the political actors. He explains how political compromises between environmental groups and trade policy elites came about, focusing in particular on the roles played by eleven national environmental organizations. In identifying their accomplishments, he concludes that although the environmentalists won some procedural changes, they failed to modify the norm of unfettered growth as the guiding principle of U.S. trade policy.

The first book to probe the role that environmental politics play in trade policy, this volume offers new insights into the political effectiveness of environmental organizations.

General

Imprint: Georgetown University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: American Governance and Public Policy series
Release date: September 1997
First published: September 1997
Authors: John J. Audley (Senior Fellow)
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 978-0-87840-651-7
Categories: Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmentalist, conservationist & Green organizations
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Pressure groups & lobbying
Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > Sustainability
Books > Business & Economics > Economics > International economics > International trade > General
LSN: 0-87840-651-4
Barcode: 9780878406517

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