Ann Capling
Biographic Data
| ID | 691863 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann Capling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Capling |
| SIGNATURE | CAPLING A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Australia's flawed approach to trade negotiations: And where do we sign
Economists have warned for many years that preferential trade agreements (PTAs) will not necessarily increase economic welfare in Australia given the relatively small size of the economy and the country's lack of negotiating coin. The Productivity Commission cautioned in its major report on PTAs that there seemed to be a mindset of 'agreements for agreement's sake', in part because of fears of missing out on a bandwagon that has attracted Austral…
Symposium: Australia–US Economic Relations and the Regional Balance of Power Australia, the United States and the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Diverging Interests and Unintended Consequences
When the talks for a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) were launched in 2010, there appeared to be a coincidence of interests between the American and Australian governments in negotiating a high-quality, '21st-century' trade arrangement that would multilat
Multilateralising regionalism: What role for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
The Asia-Pacific region is home to a large and rapidly growing number of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). These agreements differ widely in design, scope and purpose. The “noodle bowl” that has resulted runs the risk of distorting investment and trade. Neither global institutions (the WTO) nor regional institutions such as the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) grouping have successfully addressed these issues. Amidst this increasingly…
Professing Political Science in Australia: The What, How and Why of a Disciplinary Education
This article poses three questions about undergraduate curriculum in political science in Australia: What are we doing? Why are we doing it? And, is what we are doing good enough? *This article is
The contradictions of regionalism in North America
Students of regionalism almost reflexively include North America in their lists of regions in contemporary global politics. Inevitably students of regionalism point to the integrative agreements between the countries of North America: the two free trade agreements that transformed the continental economy beginning in the late 1980s – the Canada–US Free Trade Agreement that came into force on 1 January 1989, and the North American Free Trade Agree…
Introduction: The Future of the Multilateral Trade System—What Role for the World Trade Organization
Global governance through multilateral institutions has fallen on hard times in the twenty-first century. Whereas intergovernmental multilateralism was the dominant form of international collective action in the second half of the twentieth century, today international cooperation through multilateral institutions is facing severe challenges. Over the past five years or so, contributors to Global Governance have grappled with these difficulties, …
Transforming East Asia: The Evolution of Regional Economic Integration . Naoko Munakata
Australia's trade policy dilemmas
In recent years, Australia has had a very active agenda for the negotiation of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) whose net economic benefits remain at best unclear. There has been a strong defensive element to some of this PTA activity but the Howard government also used PTAs to pursue non-economic objectives, such as the promotion of foreign policy and security interests. This article broadly outlines Australia's PTA policy and the problems a…
Preferential trade agreements as instruments of foreign policy: An Australia–Japan free trade agreement and its implications for the Asia Pacific region
The proliferation of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) in the Asia Pacific region is widely seen as a pragmatic response by governments to the bogging down of the regional and multilateral trade institutions. Analysis of these PTAs has focused primarily on their trade and economic dimensions. There has been less discussion and analysis of the geo-political and strategic dimensions of PTAs in the region. This article explores these issues with …
Twenty years of Australia's engagement with Asia
For the past two decades, ‘engagement with Asia’ has been a central theme in Australian public policy and public debate about Australia's place in the world. The commitment to Asian engagement has been shared by both sides of federal politics throughout this period; however, when in government the Labor Party (1983–96) and the Coalition (1996–2007) pursued radically different approaches to this common objective. This article contrasts and evaluat…
Blowback: Investor-State Dispute Mechanisms in International Trade Agreements
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) gave unprecedented rights to private investors. These provisions quickly became entrenched in policy and practice, appearing in most multilateral and bilateral trade agreements in the 1990s as American investors began to bring Canada and Mexico to arbitration. However, the Australia–U.S. Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) of 2004 contained no such provisions. The purpose of this article is to explain why…
Democratic Deficit, the Global Trade System and 11 September
This short paper examines the Howard government's engagement with the World Trade Organization through the prism of two events: the S11 anti‐globalisation protests and the 11 September terrorist attacks against the United States. Several policy dilemmas are highlighted including: concerns about the accountability and legitimacy of global political institutions (democratic deficit); the government's reluctance to expand public participation in tra…
Parliament and the Democratization of Foreign Policy: The Case of Australia's Joint Standing Committee on Treaties
There is little agreement about the degree to which parliamentary institutions can help overcome the democratic deficit in global governance. While much of the literature on the European Union's democratic deficit focuses on reforming parliament, most commentary on the subject in global governance and foreign policy holds out little hope that national parliaments could be used to mitigate the effects of the internationalization of public policy. …
Australia and the Global Trade System: From Havana to Seattle
Australia and the Global Trade System provides a comprehensive account of Australia's role in developing and maintaining the multilateral trade system from its origins in 1947 to the present day. Australia was one of the 23 original signatories to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and its participation was vital to the success of international efforts to reconstruct a multilateral trade system after the disastrous experiences of …
An Australia-United States Trade Agreement
(2001). An Australia-United States Trade Agreement? Policy, Organisation and Society: Vol. 20, Special Edition: An American-Australian Free Trade Agreement?, pp. 11-27
Death of distance or tyranny of distance? The Internet, deterritorialization, and the anti-globalization movement in Australia
This is a post-print of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in the Pacific Review © 2001 Taylor & Francis. The Pacific Review is available online at: http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk
The ‘Enfant Terrible’: Australia and the Reconstruction of the Multilateral Trade system, 1946–8
In recent years Australia has been recognized as a prominent player in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and its successor, the World Trade Organization (WTO). Less well known is Australia’s activism during the establishment of the GATT. This article, based on archival sources and contemporary accounts, examines Australia’s role in the birth of the multilateral trade system. It seeks to nuance the two conventional interpretations …
Insuring Risk: Systems of Global Finance
Critical analyses of international financial markets tend to explain changes over recent decades in terms of a resurgent liberalism. This paper employs a systems theoretical approach to argue that there has been a far more fundamental transformation in the operations of these financial markets than simply a shift towards more liberalized regimes of regulation. The use of risk as resource and the systematic randomness of these new operational tren…
Who makes trade policy? Australia and the Uruguay round agreement on trade‐related investment measures (TRIMS)
The Conundrum of Intellectual Property Rights: Domestic Interests, International Commitments and the Australian Music Industry
The creation and exploitation of intellectual property is of central importance to Australia's economic security and cultural identity. However, the protection of intellectual property rights can have undesirable consequences including the protection of anti-competitive business environments; the privileging of private over public interest; and the erosion of the state's policy autonomy. In a case study of the recent conflict over the import of c…
Beyond the Protective State: The Political Economy of Australia's Manufacturing Industry Policy
Australian approaches to countertrade: State and firm responses
Countertrade (or barter trade) has become an important element of the international political economy in the past 15 years, and is said to typify the emergence of neo‐mercantilist tendencies in the international system. The implications for Australia arising from this alteration in the ‘rules of the game’ with respect to the international system are profound. This article explores how the Australian government, and Australian‐based firms, have re…
Multilateralising regionalism: What role for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
The Asia-Pacific region is home to a large and rapidly growing number of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). These agreements differ widely in design, scope and purpose. The “noodle bowl” that has resulted runs the risk of distorting investment and trade. Neither global institutions (the WTO) nor regional institutions such as the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) grouping have successfully addressed these issues. Amidst this increasingly…
Preferential trade agreements as instruments of foreign policy: An Australia–Japan free trade agreement and its implications for the Asia Pacific region
The proliferation of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) in the Asia Pacific region is widely seen as a pragmatic response by governments to the bogging down of the regional and multilateral trade institutions. Analysis of these PTAs has focused primarily on their trade and economic dimensions. There has been less discussion and analysis of the geo-political and strategic dimensions of PTAs in the region. This article explores these issues with …
Twenty years of Australia's engagement with Asia
For the past two decades, ‘engagement with Asia’ has been a central theme in Australian public policy and public debate about Australia's place in the world. The commitment to Asian engagement has been shared by both sides of federal politics throughout this period; however, when in government the Labor Party (1983–96) and the Coalition (1996–2007) pursued radically different approaches to this common objective. This article contrasts and evaluat…
Death of distance or tyranny of distance? The Internet, deterritorialization, and the anti-globalization movement in Australia
This is a post-print of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in the Pacific Review © 2001 Taylor & Francis. The Pacific Review is available online at: http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk
Parliament and the Democratization of Foreign Policy: The Case of Australia's Joint Standing Committee on Treaties
There is little agreement about the degree to which parliamentary institutions can help overcome the democratic deficit in global governance. While much of the literature on the European Union's democratic deficit focuses on reforming parliament, most commentary on the subject in global governance and foreign policy holds out little hope that national parliaments could be used to mitigate the effects of the internationalization of public policy. …
Professing Political Science in Australia: The What, How and Why of a Disciplinary Education
This article poses three questions about undergraduate curriculum in political science in Australia: What are we doing? Why are we doing it? And, is what we are doing good enough? *This article is
Symposium: Australia–US Economic Relations and the Regional Balance of Power Australia, the United States and the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Diverging Interests and Unintended Consequences
When the talks for a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) were launched in 2010, there appeared to be a coincidence of interests between the American and Australian governments in negotiating a high-quality, '21st-century' trade arrangement that would multilat
Australia's trade policy dilemmas
In recent years, Australia has had a very active agenda for the negotiation of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) whose net economic benefits remain at best unclear. There has been a strong defensive element to some of this PTA activity but the Howard government also used PTAs to pursue non-economic objectives, such as the promotion of foreign policy and security interests. This article broadly outlines Australia's PTA policy and the problems a…
Blowback: Investor-State Dispute Mechanisms in International Trade Agreements
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) gave unprecedented rights to private investors. These provisions quickly became entrenched in policy and practice, appearing in most multilateral and bilateral trade agreements in the 1990s as American investors began to bring Canada and Mexico to arbitration. However, the Australia–U.S. Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) of 2004 contained no such provisions. The purpose of this article is to explain why…
Introduction: The Future of the Multilateral Trade System—What Role for the World Trade Organization
Global governance through multilateral institutions has fallen on hard times in the twenty-first century. Whereas intergovernmental multilateralism was the dominant form of international collective action in the second half of the twentieth century, today international cooperation through multilateral institutions is facing severe challenges. Over the past five years or so, contributors to Global Governance have grappled with these difficulties, …
Australia's flawed approach to trade negotiations: And where do we sign
Economists have warned for many years that preferential trade agreements (PTAs) will not necessarily increase economic welfare in Australia given the relatively small size of the economy and the country's lack of negotiating coin. The Productivity Commission cautioned in its major report on PTAs that there seemed to be a mindset of 'agreements for agreement's sake', in part because of fears of missing out on a bandwagon that has attracted Austral…
The contradictions of regionalism in North America
Students of regionalism almost reflexively include North America in their lists of regions in contemporary global politics. Inevitably students of regionalism point to the integrative agreements between the countries of North America: the two free trade agreements that transformed the continental economy beginning in the late 1980s – the Canada–US Free Trade Agreement that came into force on 1 January 1989, and the North American Free Trade Agree…
Australian approaches to countertrade: State and firm responses
Countertrade (or barter trade) has become an important element of the international political economy in the past 15 years, and is said to typify the emergence of neo‐mercantilist tendencies in the international system. The implications for Australia arising from this alteration in the ‘rules of the game’ with respect to the international system are profound. This article explores how the Australian government, and Australian‐based firms, have re…
Beyond the Protective State: The Political Economy of Australia's Manufacturing Industry Policy
The Conundrum of Intellectual Property Rights: Domestic Interests, International Commitments and the Australian Music Industry
The creation and exploitation of intellectual property is of central importance to Australia's economic security and cultural identity. However, the protection of intellectual property rights can have undesirable consequences including the protection of anti-competitive business environments; the privileging of private over public interest; and the erosion of the state's policy autonomy. In a case study of the recent conflict over the import of c…
Who makes trade policy? Australia and the Uruguay round agreement on trade‐related investment measures (TRIMS)
Insuring Risk: Systems of Global Finance
Critical analyses of international financial markets tend to explain changes over recent decades in terms of a resurgent liberalism. This paper employs a systems theoretical approach to argue that there has been a far more fundamental transformation in the operations of these financial markets than simply a shift towards more liberalized regimes of regulation. The use of risk as resource and the systematic randomness of these new operational tren…
The ‘Enfant Terrible’: Australia and the Reconstruction of the Multilateral Trade system, 1946–8
In recent years Australia has been recognized as a prominent player in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and its successor, the World Trade Organization (WTO). Less well known is Australia’s activism during the establishment of the GATT. This article, based on archival sources and contemporary accounts, examines Australia’s role in the birth of the multilateral trade system. It seeks to nuance the two conventional interpretations …
Australia and the Global Trade System: From Havana to Seattle
Australia and the Global Trade System provides a comprehensive account of Australia's role in developing and maintaining the multilateral trade system from its origins in 1947 to the present day. Australia was one of the 23 original signatories to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and its participation was vital to the success of international efforts to reconstruct a multilateral trade system after the disastrous experiences of …
An Australia-United States Trade Agreement
(2001). An Australia-United States Trade Agreement? Policy, Organisation and Society: Vol. 20, Special Edition: An American-Australian Free Trade Agreement?, pp. 11-27
Death of distance or tyranny of distance? The Internet, deterritorialization, and the anti-globalization movement in Australia
This is a post-print of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in the Pacific Review © 2001 Taylor & Francis. The Pacific Review is available online at: http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk
Democratic Deficit, the Global Trade System and 11 September
This short paper examines the Howard government's engagement with the World Trade Organization through the prism of two events: the S11 anti‐globalisation protests and the 11 September terrorist attacks against the United States. Several policy dilemmas are highlighted including: concerns about the accountability and legitimacy of global political institutions (democratic deficit); the government's reluctance to expand public participation in tra…
Parliament and the Democratization of Foreign Policy: The Case of Australia's Joint Standing Committee on Treaties
There is little agreement about the degree to which parliamentary institutions can help overcome the democratic deficit in global governance. While much of the literature on the European Union's democratic deficit focuses on reforming parliament, most commentary on the subject in global governance and foreign policy holds out little hope that national parliaments could be used to mitigate the effects of the internationalization of public policy. …
Blowback: Investor-State Dispute Mechanisms in International Trade Agreements
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) gave unprecedented rights to private investors. These provisions quickly became entrenched in policy and practice, appearing in most multilateral and bilateral trade agreements in the 1990s as American investors began to bring Canada and Mexico to arbitration. However, the Australia–U.S. Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) of 2004 contained no such provisions. The purpose of this article is to explain why…
Transforming East Asia: The Evolution of Regional Economic Integration . Naoko Munakata
Australia's trade policy dilemmas
In recent years, Australia has had a very active agenda for the negotiation of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) whose net economic benefits remain at best unclear. There has been a strong defensive element to some of this PTA activity but the Howard government also used PTAs to pursue non-economic objectives, such as the promotion of foreign policy and security interests. This article broadly outlines Australia's PTA policy and the problems a…
Preferential trade agreements as instruments of foreign policy: An Australia–Japan free trade agreement and its implications for the Asia Pacific region
The proliferation of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) in the Asia Pacific region is widely seen as a pragmatic response by governments to the bogging down of the regional and multilateral trade institutions. Analysis of these PTAs has focused primarily on their trade and economic dimensions. There has been less discussion and analysis of the geo-political and strategic dimensions of PTAs in the region. This article explores these issues with …
Twenty years of Australia's engagement with Asia
For the past two decades, ‘engagement with Asia’ has been a central theme in Australian public policy and public debate about Australia's place in the world. The commitment to Asian engagement has been shared by both sides of federal politics throughout this period; however, when in government the Labor Party (1983–96) and the Coalition (1996–2007) pursued radically different approaches to this common objective. This article contrasts and evaluat…
The contradictions of regionalism in North America
Students of regionalism almost reflexively include North America in their lists of regions in contemporary global politics. Inevitably students of regionalism point to the integrative agreements between the countries of North America: the two free trade agreements that transformed the continental economy beginning in the late 1980s – the Canada–US Free Trade Agreement that came into force on 1 January 1989, and the North American Free Trade Agree…
Introduction: The Future of the Multilateral Trade System—What Role for the World Trade Organization
Global governance through multilateral institutions has fallen on hard times in the twenty-first century. Whereas intergovernmental multilateralism was the dominant form of international collective action in the second half of the twentieth century, today international cooperation through multilateral institutions is facing severe challenges. Over the past five years or so, contributors to Global Governance have grappled with these difficulties, …
Professing Political Science in Australia: The What, How and Why of a Disciplinary Education
This article poses three questions about undergraduate curriculum in political science in Australia: What are we doing? Why are we doing it? And, is what we are doing good enough? *This article is
Multilateralising regionalism: What role for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
The Asia-Pacific region is home to a large and rapidly growing number of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). These agreements differ widely in design, scope and purpose. The “noodle bowl” that has resulted runs the risk of distorting investment and trade. Neither global institutions (the WTO) nor regional institutions such as the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) grouping have successfully addressed these issues. Amidst this increasingly…
Symposium: Australia–US Economic Relations and the Regional Balance of Power Australia, the United States and the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Diverging Interests and Unintended Consequences
When the talks for a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) were launched in 2010, there appeared to be a coincidence of interests between the American and Australian governments in negotiating a high-quality, '21st-century' trade arrangement that would multilat
Australia's flawed approach to trade negotiations: And where do we sign
Economists have warned for many years that preferential trade agreements (PTAs) will not necessarily increase economic welfare in Australia given the relatively small size of the economy and the country's lack of negotiating coin. The Productivity Commission cautioned in its major report on PTAs that there seemed to be a mindset of 'agreements for agreement's sake', in part because of fears of missing out on a bandwagon that has attracted Austral…
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