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Project on International Affairs Lecture Series Presents:
"Regional Trade Agreements and Global Cooperation"
with Dr. Kati Suominen
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
3:00-4:30 PM
Location: Social Sciences Building 105 (SSB 105)
This event is free and open to the public.
 Abstract: Trade agreements and other international cooperation agreements have proliferated en masse in recent years around the world. Rather than being spurred by exogenous forces alone, the two phenomena are likely both path-dependent and endogenous to one another. Indeed, economics literature has long viewed preferential trade agreements as evolving in sequential steps from a free trade agreement to a custom union and further to a common market. Political science, which has explored a wider range of cooperation domains, such as security, the environment, and human rights, has provided grounds for expecting that international cooperation can generate Pareto-improving outcomes that encourage states to expand their cooperation. However, the theoretical and empirical understanding of the relationships between agreements forged in different domains remains nascent. The purpose of this paper is to describe a new, extensive dataset on trade agreements and other international agreements that can help mend some of the gaps in the literature on international cooperation, and that can be used to advance a research agenda on the best practices of sequencing international agreements. Of particular interest here is the relationship between trade agreements and non-trade agreements; the data provide grounds for believing that trade agreements can catalyze further cooperation between states.
Biography: Kati Suominen, the Chair of the Wharton Club International Trade & Finance Roundtable, has served since 2003 as International Trade Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, where she manages team research projects on global trade and economic integration issues, coordinates inter-institutional initiatives with the Asian Development Bank, UN University, and the World Trade Organization, and works on trade-related technical cooperation projects for the Caribbean region and Mexico.
Parking: The closest parking is Pangea Parking Structure. A one day pass for $6.00, metered spots 15 minutes for 25 cents, maximum 2 hours
Anyone needing special arrangements to accommodate a disability is encouraged to contact Melissa La Bouff 822-5297 two weeks in advance.
Sponsored by the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS) and the Department of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego.
For questions regarding the event please contact iicas-events@ucsd.edu.
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Challenges to the Welfare State: States, Markets, and Social Provision Conference
Friday, May 18, 2007
Location: Deutz Room, Institute of the Americas
This event is free and open to the public.
Conference description: The welfare state is under pressure. The most expansive social programs in the developed world face new demographic, political and economic threats to their continued viability. Social provision in many developing countries is increasingly the province of nongovernmental actors. Some scholars have begun to argue that the concept of the "welfare state" no longer captures the way states and societies organize social provision, if indeed it ever did. This one-day conference will explore the changing politics of social policy and the shifting boundaries between public and private social provision in contemporary societies around the world.
Sponsored by Sociology, the Division of Social Sciences, the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS) and the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC).
For more information on this event, please contact Isaac Martin at (858) 534-5589.
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Upcoming European Studies Events
Lunch seminar with Professor Patrick Patterson (UCSD)
Title: TBA
Time: Noon - 1:30 PM, Thursday, April 26, 2007
Location: Social Science Building Room 104 (SSB 104)
Lunch will be provided so please RSVP to mlabouff@ucsd.edu by Monday, April 23, 2007.
Anyone needing special arrangements to accommodate a disability is encouraged to contact Melissa La Bouff 822-5297 by Thursday, April 12, 2007.
"Islamaphobia: How the right culturalized politics in Europe"
Lunch seminar with Professor Ferruh Yilmaz (UCSD)
Time: 12:30 - 2:00 PM, Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Location: Social Science Building Room 104 (SSB 104)
Lunch will be provided so please RSVP to mlabouff@ucsd.edu by Friday, May 4, 2007.
Abstract: "The main argument in this presentation is that the entire political discourse in Denmark (and in many parts of Europe) has been pushed to the right through the debate on immigration in the last two decades. The left/right distinction is pushed to the background and a cultural one - the "Danish people"/the Muslim immigrant - has come to the forefront as the main dividing line. In short, a new basis for identification has become hegemonic through the articulation of a new internal division based on culture. The hegemonic change was the result of the nationalist/racist Right's populist intervention in the mid-80s. Large sections of society did not feel that their concerns and demands were represented by neo-liberal consensus in the political system. In an environment of such profound displacement, it was relatively easy for the populist right to point to immigration as the main threat to society (associated with the welfare system) and to articulate an antagonism between the people (silent majority) and the political and cultural elite that let immigration happen.The new hegemony is based on a culturalized ontology of the social. The (re)production of immigrants as a threatening force is maintained through a constant focus on cultural issues that are considered as anti-society. In many parts of Europe, cycles of moral panics are created around issues such as honor killings, gang rapes, animal slaughter, violence, female genital mutilation, forced marriages and headscarves. These issues produce repeatedly an unbridgeable divide between Muslim immigrants and Danish culture. The orientation towards these issues disperses various social and political actors along the antagonistic divide, often creating insolvable tensions and fractions within social movements.
Reproducing a left/right opposition - regardless of its particular content - is what is at stake. The answer to the populist vision of society is the construction of a new type of hegemony: the strategy or ideal for a future world should be the re-ontologization of the social."
Anyone needing special arrangements to accommodate a disability is encouraged to contact Melissa La Bouff 822-5297 by Tuesday, April 24, 2007.
"Interpreting the French Presidential Election of 2007"
Lunch seminar with Professor William Chandler (UCSD)
Time: Noon - 1:30 PM, Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Location: IICAS Conference Room (ERC 115)
Lunch will be provided so please RSVP to mlabouff@ucsd.edu by Friday, May 18, 2007.
Anyone needing special arrangements to accommodate a disability is encouraged to contact Melissa La Bouff 822-5297 by May 9, 2007.
All European Studies events are free and open to the public.
For questions regarding the event please contact iicas-events@ucsd.edu.
All European Studies events sponsored by the Institute for International, Comparative and Area Studies (IICAS) and Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC). |
