Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- PART I: Analytical Framework * Introduction * PART II: The FTAA Negotiations * The FTAA Negotiations * PART III: Background * Economic Paradigms and Trade Regionalism in Latin America * Lessons from Economic Cooperation in the Americas * PART IV: The Case Studies * US Foreign Trade Policy: Leadership in a Constrained System * Brazilian Foreign Trade Policy: Instrument for an Autonomous Nation.

"The first detailed historical account of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations, this book covers the genesis of the project in the early 1990s to its demise in late 2003. It examines how the FTAA, an Inter-American policy idea, was incompatible with the predominant ideas and beliefs of Brazilian and American decision makers as to how they could and should conduct their countries foreign trade policy in the Western Hemisphere"-- Provided by publisher.

"The first detailed historical account of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations, this book covers the genesis of the project in the early 1990s to its demise in late 2003. It examines how the FTAA, an Inter-American policy idea, was incompatible with the predominant ideas and beliefs of Brazilian and American decision makers as to how they could and should conduct their countries' foreign trade policy in the Western Hemisphere. Its multidisciplinary nature and the incorporation of a case study of foreign policymaking in an emerging economy make it attractive to scholars and students of Political Sciences and International Relations, and to all those interested in the power dynamics in asymmetrical relations"-- Provided by publisher.

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