Decision at midnight : inside the Canada-U.S. free-trade negotiations / / Michael Hart, with Bill Dymond and Colin Robertson ; foreword by Donald Macdonald, with cartoons by Alan King
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| Autore: |
Hart Michael <1944->
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| Titolo: |
Decision at midnight : inside the Canada-U.S. free-trade negotiations / / Michael Hart, with Bill Dymond and Colin Robertson ; foreword by Donald Macdonald, with cartoons by Alan King
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| Pubblicazione: | Vancouver, : UBC Press, c1994 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (473 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 382/.971073 |
| Soggetto topico: | Free trade - Canada |
| Free trade - United States | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Canada Commercial treaties |
| United States Commercial treaties | |
| Altri autori: |
DymondBill <1943->
RobertsonColin <1954->
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| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front Matter -- Contents -- Charts and Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- The Fork in the Road -- Setting the Stage -- Policy Origins -- No Anchor, No Rudder, No Compass: The us Setting -- Preparing the Way -- Reaching a Decision -- Forging Ahead -- Getting Ready -- Negotiating an Agreement -- The Summer of Innocence -- The Fall of Impatience -- The Winter of Discontent -- Spring Again: Moving Rocks -- The Summer of Despair -- Impasse in September -- The Real Thing -- What had Gone Wrong? -- A Near Run Thing -- The Lawyers Take Over -- Conclusions: A Good Agreement¹ -- Notes -- Chronology of the Canada-Us Free-Trade Negotiations -- Glossary of Trade and Related Terms -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Credits -- Index -- About the Authors |
| Sommario/riassunto: | On 2 January 1988, Canada and the United States signed what was then the most comprehensive free trade agreeement the world had ever seen. This book is the story of those FTA negotiations, the preparations for and conduct of the negotiations, as well as the ideas and issues behind them. From their unique perspective as participants, Michael Hart, Bill Dymond, and Colin Robertson capture the drama and the personalities involved in the long struggle to make a free trade deal. They describe the extensive consultations, the turf-fighting among insiders, the innate caution of both politicians and bureaucrats, and the need to cultivate powerful constituencies in order to overcome the inertia of conventional wisdom. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Decision at midnight |
| ISBN: | 0-7748-5412-X |
| 9786613225511 | |
| 1-283-22551-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910824672303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Canada and international relations ; ; 9.