Language:
Spanish
Series Statement:
GIGA Working Papers 93
Keywords:
Mexiko Chile
;
Handelsbeziehung
Abstract:
This article analyzes the "other" goals that drive Chile and Mexico to achieve intra- and extra-regional FTAs. These countries have a predominantly economic motivation to negotiate FTAs. However, there are other elements that are less apparent, but equally important, in Chile`s and Mexico`s FTA policies. These accords can also be seen as means to power and as mechanisms for establishing a closer system of global economic governance than that available through multilateral forums. Therefore, these two countries` FTAs are an ad hoc system that represents their respective economic contexts and realities. In other words, FTAs as an essential part of Chile`s and Mexico`s foreign policies have a strategic political-economic logic that synthesizes the notions of power and institutions. However, these two forces do not exclude of the economic logic for FTAs, which focuses on the maximization of consumers` welfare and producers` gains. On the contrary, they have to be taken as complementary factors.
Note:
Zusammenfassung in deutscher und englischer Sprache
URL:
https://www.giga-hamburg.de/de/system/files/publications/wp93_wehner.pdf
