Re-launching
prospects of the transatlantic partnership and WTO
negotiations
This programme, launched with the support of the German
Marshall Fund, aims at analysing the present state and
prospects of the transatlantic relations within the WTO
negotiations, by fostering qualified initiatives on the
most suitable strategies to adopt for a joint-leadership
role of United States and European Union, within the
ongoing multilateral trade negotiations. In such a
perspective, the international
conference organized on March 14th, 2006 centred on
United States and European negotiation strategies for
finding out common and diverging points at an
international trade level. The Conference and its
preparatory works offered an important opportunity for an
exchange of analyses, ideas and opinions among scholars,
business community representatives and policy decision
makers from various countries, to assess the role of the
United States and the European Union within the
multilateral trade negotiations (Doha Development Agenda)
and the strengthening of transatlantic cooperation.
Competition,
Cultural Variety and Global Governance: the Case of the
Global Audio-video System.
This study - in cooperation with the HWWA-Institute
fur Wirtschaftsforschung, Hamburg - is centred on the
internationalisation processes under way in the
audio-video sector and relative national policies and will
evaluate the implications for global governance in terms
of sectoral development and relations among major
countries. The research project has four main aims: 1) to
analyse the development of the audio-video sector as
regards value added, production, employment, trade and
investments; 2) to analyse the development of the
structure of demand and supply in the sector in a
comparison of various countries; 3) to assess the contents,
modalities and implementation of a wide range of policy
instruments in the audio-video sector applied in the major
geo-economic areas and in particular in North America,
Europe and the Asia Pacific; 4) to analyse multilateral
trade policies and GATS regulations for audio-video
services.
G
8 Working Group (December
2000)
The initiative, conceived of by two prestigious
international research institutes - The Institute for
International Economics, Washington, and the Tokyo
Foundation - involved setting up an international Working
Group composed of highest level scholars and experts of
various extraction from all G-8 countries with the task of
formulating selected proposals for the G-8 summit held at
Genoa in July. Among the participants: Henry Kissinger,
Renato Ruggiero, Paul Volcker.
International Governance: the WTO reform and
the coordination with the other international organisations
(January-April 2001)
This project has been organised in the framework of the
“Genoa Non Governmental Initiative” (GNG) promoted by
the Italian Prime Minister’s Office and the Italian
Foreign Ministry in preparation for the Genoa summit. By
consulting the non governmental organisations in G-8
countries, it planned to provide a set of recommendations
on topics pertaining to the G-8 agenda. Thanks to the
expertise gained in recent years and the international
network to which it belongs, the IAI Laboratory set up a
working group of Italian and international experts
representing civil society on the central subject of
institutional reform of the WTO and coordination among the
institutions of global governance. In cooperation with
SID, the Laboratory also contributed to the setting up of
a web-site
dedicated to the International Governance and the WTO.
Trade,
Investment and Competition Policies in the Global Economy:
the Case of the International Telecommunications Regime
(March 2000-June 2001)
The research project - in partnership with the HWWA-Institut
für Wirtschaftsforschung, Hamburg - focused on the
new global regionalism and analyzed the emerging problems
of global governance internationally and the mechanisms
needed to promote regulatory systems and cooperation
schemes. It analyzed the liberalization and internationalization
trends in the services sector overall and in
telecommunications in particular to assess the
implications for global systems and the issues of "global
governance" in terms of sectorial evolution and relations
among the leading areas and countries. The analysis also
verified the impact of the new cross-cutting themes of
competition and investments in the evolution of the models
of liberalization of telecommunications services
nationally, regionally and multilaterally. The network
included specialists from European institutes (HWWA,
Hamburg; the University of Bremen, the University of
California and University of Sussex) and international
institutions (WTO, World Bank, Organisation of American
States).
A final
workshop to present and discuss the main results of
the project was held in Spring 2001 in Hamburg. The proceedings
were published by Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft.
Capacity
Building for the MENA Countries in the Forthcoming WTO
Negotiations: the Core Area of Services Networks (april 2002)
This
capacity-building project, managed jointly by the IAI and
the World Bank Institute (Washington) aims to analyze of
the negotiating issues at the core of the future multilateral
talks of the World Trade Organisation and enhancement of
the capacities of the Mediterranean area countries to
participate actively in them. The initiative was conceived
as part of the multi-year project of the World Bank
Institute "Preparing for the WTO 2000 negotiations: a
proposal to enhance developing country participation"
and aims to contribute to the phase involving a comparison
of the experiences of the "developing macroregions"
in defining their strategies for a new multilateral round,
with attention in the IAI project to the southern shore of
the Mediterranean. The analysis targets the new issues of
international trade and the services, with special
attention to several sectorial case studies, such as
telecommunications, financial services and audiovisuals.
The objective is to define the impact of the new
unilateral, regional and multilateral regimes on the MENA
area countries and whether this impact can be carried over
to the multilateral sphere of the liberalization
experience in the Euro-Mediterranean agreements. The
findings were presented in a conference held in Tunis in
April 2002.
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