Course overview
This course introduces students to the complex world of trade negotiations, with focus on the World Trade Organization. It supplies broad conceptual toolkits for understanding the concepts of International Political Economy and Economic Diplomacy tools states use to advance their interests home and abroad. It follows with the evolution of the WTO, and its current institutional arrangements. Broad consideration may also be given to the various trade instruments, from tariffs to intellectual property rights, governed at the WTO level, and updates students on current debates over the future of the WTO. It finally sets students to utilising the toolkits and institutional knowledge previously developed in an intensive trade bargaining simulation.
- The International Trading System, Economic Diplomacy, And Trade Bargaining
- The Wto, And Trade Policy Instruments
- The Negotiation Of Trade Agreements (A Role-Play Simulation)
Course learning outcomes
- Evaluate trade in the modern world through studying the global institutions involved in the multilateral trading system, the gains from trade and social issues affected by trade
- Explain the elements of international trade by reviewing the historical development of multilateral agreements,connect relevant economic concepts and theories, and examine the key instruments of trade policy
- Critically reflect on how trade agreements are negotiated in the WTO
- Analyse the influence of key actors and institutions on multilateral trade
- Critically examine the operation and application of multilateral trade agreements in a practical context
- Apply effective writing, research and presentation skills in the construction of policy argument and analysis on international trade issues