Tradedisputes, dispute settlement mechanisms, and local development
Canada ; Competition ; Development ; European Union ; Industrial sector ; International trade ; Local development ; Steel ; Trade agreement ; United States of America
This article highlights the role of Dispute settlement mechanisms (DSMs) in free trade agreements, especially in relation to the World Trade Organization (WTO), and draws out some implications for local development. The study reviews literatures
that have addressed the mandate and rationale of the WTO's formal and legalistic DSM, paying especial attention to the realist perspective on international trade, the issue of fairness, and implications of asymmetric power relations for local development
. Economic geographers need to incorporate free trade institutional architectures in contemplations of local development.
International trade relations and regional industrial adjustment : the implications of the 1982-86 Canadian-US softwood lumber dispute for British Columbia
Special issue on industrial restructuring and continental trade blocs
British Columbia ; Canada ; Conflict ; Export ; Industry ; International trade ; Regional economy ; Resource management ; Wood industry
These implications are discussed within a progressively more focused series of trade-relations contexts based on principles of political economy, and represented by the concepts of complex interdependance, continentalism, and bargaining
. This dispute led to an unanticipated and undesirable outcome for this industry.
China ; Conflict ; Frontier ; India ; Political geography ; Trade
The paper examines the origins of border disputes and potentialities of exchange across borders. The colonial heritage of the Great Game in the eastern part of High Asia confronted independent India and the PR of China with unsolved boundary issues
. In addition India has shaped its outer and inner borders further and new territorial entities are the result or the indicator for disputes, regionalism and segregation. The listed disputes have attenuated regional development and cross-border exchange
Implications of just-in-time production for union strategy : lessons from the 1998 General Motors-Unites auto workers dispute
Car industry ; Flexibility ; Labour ; Labour dispute ; Production system ; Scale ; Space time ; Trade union ; United States of America ; Work organization
The geography of trade union responses to local government privatization
Commercial policy ; Economic policy ; Great Britain ; Local policy ; Market regulation ; Post-Fordism ; Privatisation ; Social conflict ; Theory of regulation ; Tradedispute ; United Kingdom
Discourse on the docks : containerization and inter-union work disputes in US ports, 1955-85
Container ; Discourse ; Harbour ; Labour ; Legislation ; Local labour market ; Regulation ; Technological innovation ; Trade union ; United States of America
Boundary dispute between municipalities. The case of Ohmuta and Arao cities on the Ariake bay in Kyushu
The boundary dispute between Ohmuta (Fukuoka Prefecture) and Arao (Kumamoto Prefecture) is one of the typical disputes on the reclaimed land, where each administrative unit anticipates receiving tax income. (SGA).
Transfer of population as a solution to international disputes. Population exchanges between Greece and Turkey as a model for plans to solve the Jewish-Arab dispute in Palestine during the 1930s
which was dispatched to Palestine in 1936, to propose solutions to the protracted Jewish-Arab dispute in Palestine.
Collective bargaining ; Economic geography ; Firm strategy ; Foreign investment ; Labour ; Labour dispute ; Manpower ; Metallurgy ; Organization ; Trade union ; United States of America ; West Virginia
Aeronautic engineering ; Economic environment ; Globalization ; Industry ; Labour ; Labour dispute ; Security ; Trade unionism ; United States of America
Frontiers and popular nationhood : geographies of identity in the 1995 Ecuador-Peru border dispute
Drawing on substantive work on Ecuadorian national identities, an examination is made of the multiple geographies of identities which were articulated and negotiated during the border dispute in January and February. While territorial claims
Colorado ; Historical geography ; Labour ; Labour dispute ; Production of space ; Public space ; Social relations ; Trade unionism ; United States of America ; Years 1910-19