Canadian reports have recommended that health as a human right must be Canada's overarching global commitment and that the primacy of human rights should be prioritized over other elements of international law including international trade and investment law as it applies to access to pharmaceuticals. This paper uses a series of case reports to examine Canada's commitment to this goal. Specific...

We develop a new theoretical political economy framework called ‘parallel contest’ that emphasizes the fight over trade agreement (TA) ratification within countries. TA is inherently uncertain in each country because anti- and pro-trade interests contest other to influence their own government's decision. As terms-of-trade theory of TAs, removes externalities created by unilateral tariffs. But,...

The article deals with the relationship between United States and Mexico from perspective of US national security. key areas strategic interest in on part include: limiting illegal immigration, fighting drug-related crime, economic cooperation, both bilateral wider international dimension, for example North American Free Trade Agreement. According to States, all three factors their successful i...

Counterfeiting is a growing problem in national and international trade. We extend the work of Grossman and Shapiro (1988) on consumption externalities in prestige goods markets, and model a general aversion towards large levels of output interacting with a firm-specific aversion towards copies. We show that these externalities play the role of protecting the market share of the producer of ori...