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Intro -- GLOBALIZATION TRADE AGREEMENTS, GLOBAL HEALTH AND UNITED NATIONS INVOLVEMENT -- GLOBALIZATION TRADE AGREEMENTS, GLOBAL HEALTH AND UNITED NATIONS INVOLVEMENT -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 TRADE AGREEMENTS: IMPACT ON THE U.S. ECONOMY -- ABSTRACT -- BACKGROUND -- AN OVERVIEW OF THE MAJOR AGREEMENTS -- Multilateral Agreements -- Regional Trade Agreements -- Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) -- U.S.-Southern African Customs Union Free Trade Agreement -- The Enterprise for ASEAN Initiative -- U.S.-Andean Free Trade Agreement -- Central American Free Trade Agreement-Dominican Republic -- Completed Bilateral Trade Agreements -- U.S.-Australian Free Trade Agreement -- U.S.-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement -- U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement -- U.S.-Moroccan Free Trade Agreement -- U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement -- U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (PTPA) -- U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement -- Signed Bilateral Trade Agreements Requiring Congressional Approval -- U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement -- U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement -- U.S.-Panama Free Trade Agreement -- Pending Bilateral Trade Agreements -- U.S.-Malaysia Free Trade Agreement -- U.S.-Thailand Free Trade Agreement -- U.S.-United Arab Emirates Free Trade Agreement -- TRADE LIBERALIZATION AND THE GAINS FROM TRADE -- Production Gains -- Adjustment Costs -- Consumption Gains -- Economic Growth -- ESTIMATING THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF TRADE AGREEMENTS -- Overview -- The Michigan Model and Estimates -- Investment and Capital Flows -- Data on Barriers to Trade in Services -- IMPLICATIONS FOR CONGRESS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 U.S. TRADE DEFICIT AND THE IMPACT OF CHANGING OIL PRICES -- SUMMARY -- BACKGROUND -- ISSUES FOR CONGRESS -- Chapter 3 FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS: IMPACT ON U.S. TRADE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR U.S. TRADE POLICY -- SUMMARY -- WHAT ARE FREE TRADE AREAS?

The distinction between a generic sense of globalization & capitalist globalization is argued to need to be confronted in theory & research in order to have any grasp of the contemporary world & the prospects for alternative forms of globalization. The best prospect for ending capitalist globalization with its crises of polarization & ecological unsustainability are located in the globalization of economic & social human rights, & through the spread of genuine democracy. Competing approaches to globalization are differentiated by the fundamental unit of analysis that range from the state centrist approach, the globalist approach & the transnational approach. The central features of all the approaches agree that contemporary problems cannot be studied at the level of nationstates, but need to be theorized in terms of globalizing. The author defines generic globalization, global systems theory & the transnational capitalist class (TCC). Despite the fatalism characterizing much globalization literature, the path out of capitalism is described as moving from capitalist globalization through cooperatives at democracy to socialist globalization at the at the strategy of the gradual elimination of the culture ideology of consumerism that is replaced of the culture ideology of human rights. References. J. Harwell