The US, the FTAA, and the Parameters of Global Governance

Brunelle, Dorval

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“…[13][14][15][16][17][18][19] As for poly(butylene 1,4-cyclohexanedicarboxylate) (PBC), the cis-CHRM is rarely used. [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] Therefore, only the properties of PBC as a plastic are studied. [24][25][26][27] The effect of the cis-CHRM on its elasticity has been ignored.…”

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Soft segment free thermoplastic polyester elastomers with high performance

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International audienceA soft segment free thermoplastic polyester elastomer is fabricated by controlling the stereochemical structure of molecular chains with the utilization of the cis 1,4-cyclohexylene ring moiety (cis-CHRM) in poly(butylene 1,4-cyclohexanedicarboxylate) (PBC). PBC with 71% cis-CHRM exhibits good elasticity with shape recovery rates of 64% at 200% strain and 92% at break, tensile modulus, strength and elongation at break at 111 and 18 MPa and 1230%, respectively

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“…143 But they, like the unofficial agents and negotiators of the NAFTA Commission, are not only 'technical', they are also the technical-ising ground troops of this programme. The provisions of chapters 11 and 20 arm them with weapons of classification that can 'defuse politically sensitive issues' 144 by rendering them 'technical', preventing them from being openly debated and addressed through politics.…”

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Governmental Regionalism: Power/ Knowledge and Neoliberal Regional Integration in Asia and Latin America

Donegan¹

2006

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This paper presents a Foucauldian reading of regional integration projects based on the model of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as part of a strategy for the restructuring of national economies along neoliberal lines. Looking at the cases of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), the focus of the paper is on the roles played by technical `experts' in depoliticising decisions and issue-areas, understood as a central element of enabling this strategy. Moves toward regional governance can only be considered as a policy option at the national level if it is possible to distinguish `technical' from `political' within the domestic realm: only an area specified as `non-political' — that is, as posing no threat to national sovereignty — can be governed at a regional level through inter-state cooperation. Consequently, a necessary prerequisite for moving towards regional governance of national economic space is the establishment of a hegemonic political rationality that conceptualises the economic as technical and distinct from the political.

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“…Actor experiences with the NAFTA working groups CEC report aside, as Stephen Clarkson et al noted in a 2002 article, there is little secondary literature of any great detail "that addressed the significance of the NAFTA Committees and Working Groups themselves" (p. 1). Brunelle (2002) has commented on the potential of these new institutions "to defuse," in the sense of rendering untouchable by democratic forces, "politically sensitive issues in the field of environment, human and aboriginal rights, etc." (p.…”

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International Regulatory Cooperation and the Making of “Good” Regulators A Case Study of the Canada–U.S. Regulatory Cooperation Council

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International regulatory cooperation (IRC), an assortment of governmental techniques for facilitating trade by minimizing the burden on business of variation in international regulations and standards, is an increasingly important component of bilateral and regional free trade agreements. Yet as a practice of global governance, IRC is relatively understudied by critical scholars of neoliberalism and globalization. This thesis enquires into the practices of IRC and the role of state and non-state participants in the Canada-U.S. Regulatory Cooperation Council (RCC). My research draws publicly available accounts of the RCC and earlier bilateral (Canada-U.S.) regulatory cooperation efforts into conversation with the experiences of two dozen RCC participants from government, the private sector and civil society. Applying a governmentality analysis to a case study of the RCC, I conclude that IRC can be understood as a subtle technique for governing the global economy at a distance through the production of "good" (i.e., selfmaximizing) regulators and regulated subjects.

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The US, the FTAA, and the Parameters of Global Governance

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Soft segment free thermoplastic polyester elastomers with high performance

Soft segment free thermoplastic polyester elastomers with high performance

Governmental Regionalism: Power/ Knowledge and Neoliberal Regional Integration in Asia and Latin America

International Regulatory Cooperation and the Making of “Good” Regulators A Case Study of the Canada–U.S. Regulatory Cooperation Council

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