An International Political Economy Analysis of Russia's Accession to WTO

Autor: Shi-Hui Chang, 張師褘
Rok vydání: 2013
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 101
After Cold War ended in 1990 and the transformation of international trend, economic problem becomes big issue to all over the world. The combination of free trade and regional integration is the most popular model in recent years. It is also one of the important economical components in World Trade Organization (WTO), which is always a goal for Russia and USSR. From Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin and Medvedev, all of them have big influence to Russia to become 156th members of WTO on 23rd August 2012, and it takes 18 years. During that time, most of Europe countries and America were keeps negotiating about agriculture subsidies, energy price, tax barrier, service industries, but Russia still aggressively wants to be in WTO. However, after many years of hard working, Russia becomes one of the powerful countries nowadays. There are two theories in international political economy, and they are International Regime Theory and Hegemonic Stability Theory, but both of them won’t use frequently to analyze WTO. When the great nation is slowly wearing away, to using International Regime Theory for regional cooperation becomes the fastest way to maintain their own benefit and the competition with other countries. If Russia has the right to make decision that can effect WTO’s policies, it will become the tool for growing capitalism to Russia, and this will help them to become one of the great power in Eurasia. However, it is not only for their well, but also helping global economy getting better. By this research, we can know how important of policies that Russia presidents made will impact to join WTO, and how Russia’s citizens for or against about it. Such as tariff reduction per year for domestic industry, and any favorable trading condition granted to one country must be provided for all other members as well as WTO’s agreement. In conclusion, the world is moving deeper into multi-polarity, so historical of ideology is not that important anymore. Therefore, the United States of America will abrogate the Jackson-Vanik amendment for more opportunities for growing cooperation with Russia.
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