Combining a clear theoretical exposition with systematic cross-regional analysis, 'Asymmetric Trade Negotiations' offers a coherent picture of strategic, design and political economy aspects of North-South trade negotiation processes, from African, Asian and Latin American perspectives. Skilled area specialists gather to provide negotiators and policy makers in the South with recommendations, best practices, and benchmarks and contribute to the understanding of these recent processes.

Philippe De Lombaerde is Associate Director at United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) (Bruges, Belgium). Sanoussi Bilal is the Head of the Economic and Trade Cooperation Programme at the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) (Maastricht, The Netherlands). Diana Tussie directs the Department of International Relations at the Argentine campus of the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), and is founding director of the Latin American Trade Network.

Chapter 1 The Sweep of Asymmetric Trade Negotiations: Introduction and Overview, Diana Tussie, Marcelo Saguier; Chapter 2 The Scope for Asymmetry in the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Woolcock Stephen; Chapter 3 Asymmetric Trade Negotiations for Development: What Does the Experience from the ACP-EU Economic Partnership Agreements Tell Us?, Bilal Sanoussi; Chapter 4 Comparative Asymmetric Trade Negotiations in the Southern Cone: FTAA and EU-MERCOSUR, Mercedes Botto, Andrea C. Bianculli; Chapter 5 Venezuela in Asymmetric Trade Negotiations: The Cases of Negotiations in the FTAA and with the EU, Rita Giacalone; Chapter 6 Negotiating the Colombia-US FTA: A Colombian Perspective, Luis Jorge Garay, Philippe De Lombaerde, Fernando Barberi; Chapter 7 Negotiating the Thailand-US Free Trade Agreement, Wisarn Pupphavesa, Ludo Cuyvers, Santi Chaisrisawatsuk, Philippe De Lombaerde; Chapter 8 Postscript: Asymmetric Trade Negotiations After the Turn-of-the-decade 'Global' Financial Crisis?, Timothy M. Shaw;