Seminar of Chilean political and economic issues relating to regional trade organizations within the global context from a Chilean viewpoint. The course will include guest lecturers and visits to local representatives. The course begins by assessing Chile’s major trading relations. The roles of politics and local economic powers and their interrelationships will be analyzed through the major political, economic and trade regimes, e.g. G7, LAIA, LAES, Cartagena (G-l1), MERCOSUR. The course will assess the impact of international institutions such as IADB, IMF, APEC, the WTO, etc. on national policy making and economic development: NAFTA treaty and the project of a Free Trade Zone for the Americas, political and trade linkages with European Union and Bilateral Chilean Agreements. (3 credits)
Method of presentation:
8 Presentations followed by group discussions, using materials that students have to prepare in advance. Seminar activity during the last 6 weeks. Students have to prepare a previous short presentation plus paper on one of the subjects of the course that they have chosen. Active participation from students is required. Three additional team tutorial meetings with course lecturers.
Required work and form of assessment:
Mandatory attendance (absences must be well justified); individual presentation (30%); group paper (30%) [Group papers will be written by small groups of students. Each paper will be 20-25 pages. Each group will choose its own subject, e.g. how one international agreement is impacting Chile, or study negotiations in progress, or case studies]; final exam (40%).
content:
Introductions: What is this course? What are our expectations? An invitation to interactive working. Negotiating as a team. Methodology of basic research. How to choose a subject? How to select materials? Stucture of the oral and written presentation.
The Global Economy: Concepts of globalization. Economic structures of international trade. The necessity to build up associations between countries. Models of association: bilateralism and multilateralism. Customs union, economic complimentary agreements, free trade zones, free trade agreements, and political movements against globalization.
Economic institutions of the global world: World Trade Organization, World Bank, International Economic Fund, the Group of Seven. The gap between wealth and poverty in Latin American. How economic institutions influence domestic and foreign policies in Latin America.
Field trip to the Chilean Foreign Ministry hosted by professors who belong to this institution to meet some senior officers, visit to the Ministry Library, and the Chilean Academy of Diplomacy.
Theory and techniques of international negotiation.
Chile in international trade. Current agreements, negotiations in progress, figures of interchange, investments and basket of exports.
Chile and the USA: On the way to a free trade agreement. The failed promise: Chile, the 4th NAFTA partner. The bilateral option. Chile’s role in building up the FTAA. The current process of bilateral negotiation.
Field trip to fruit packing plant in the south of Santiago to look at production and the export process.
MERCOSUR and Chile. Political and economic perspective of MERCOSUR. Why Chile is not yet a full member. MERCOSUR and the project of a free trade zone in the Americas in 2005.
European Union and Chile. Political and economic perspective of the EU. Chilean current negotiation process aiming at a free trade agreement with EU.
APEC and Chile. Chile as a country who belongs to the Pacific Rim. Statistics of interchange. Political implications.
Four sessions devoted to seminars: student presentation and discussion. (one or two groups each session).
Field trip to a vineyard near Santiago – wine as export (about 8 hours).
Simulation game of international negotiations. Two teams to negotiate on a given issue.
Final exam.
Required readings:
Muñoz, Heraldo, Compilador, América Latina y los desafíos del nuevo milenio, Editorial Aguilar, Santiago de Chile, agosto de 2000.
Carnevalli, Ilaria, MERCOSUR-Chile: Temas emergentes y posiciones de los actores chilenos, FLACSO Chile, 1999.
Salazar Spaks, Juan, Chile y la Comunidad del Pacífico, Editorial Universitaria, 2° edición, Santiago de Chile, 1999.
Cecchini, Paolo, Europa 1992: Una apuesta de futuro, Alianza Editorial, Madrid 1998.
FLACSO Chile, varios autores, Inserción económica internacional de América Latina, Santiago 2000.
Guía de las Negociaciones Comerciales de Chile, publicación oficial de DIRECON, Dirección de Relaciones Económicas de la Cancillería de Chile, Santiago 2000. Disponible en impreso y accesible también en htpp://www.direcon.cl
Negociaciones para un Tratado de Libre Comercio con EEUU, publicación oficial de DIRECON, Dirección de Relaciones Económicas de la Cancillería de Chile, Santiago, Agosto de 2000. Disponible sólo en impreso.
Morales, Eugenia, “Democracia, Libre Comercio y Globalización en América Latina”, en Revista Política del ICPUCH, volumen 35, Primavera 1997.
“Trabas al libre comercio entre Chile y los EEUU,” en Documento de Trabajo N°66 del ICPUCH, 1998.
Los bloques economicos y el desafio de las politicas culturales, en proceso de publicación en documento de trabajo y en website. Invierno de 2001.
Recommended readings:
M. Ealsoan, (Israel, Ricardo, Editor), “Chile del Bicentenario: Desafíos Futuros”, Editorial Don Bosco, Santiago de Chile, Noviembre de 2000.
---- Desmormeaux, Jorge, La Globalización Económica, un desafío y una oportunidad.
Gajardo, Patricio: Chile 2010: Las Relaciones Internacionales.
---- Cousino, Jose Antonio, Política y Estrategia en el Pacífico Insular, Instituto de Estudios Internacionales de la Universidad de Chile, Santiago, 1997.
Baumant, Zygmunt, “La Globalización: Consecuencias Humanas”. Fondo de Cultura Económica, B. Aires, 1999.
Millet, Paz, Gaspar, Gabriel y Rojas, Francisco, “Chile-MERCOSUR: Una alianza estratégica”. FLACSO Chile, Santiago, 1997.
Taletti, Victorio, “Constelación Sur: América Latina frente a la globalización”. Fondo de Cultura Económica, B. Aires, 1996.
Websites
http://www.usembassy.cl: Access to information, databases and negotiation process between Chile and the USA and the project of Integration of the Americas.
http://www.direcon.cl: Access to official information on databases from the Chilean Government in Trade and Political issues.
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/santiago: The Canadian Embassy in Chile which connects to several links where you can get information about negotiation process before NAFTA, current interest groups in trade and politics, etc.
Materials could change trying to work with the most updated. Final list will be implemented at the library of ICPUCH and delivered to students at the beginning of the semester.
All materials are available at the library of ICPUCH
Seminar of Chilean political and economic issues relating to regional trade organizations within the global context from a Chilean viewpoint. The course will include guest lecturers and visits to local representatives. The course begins by assessing Chile’s major trading relations. The roles of politics and local economic powers and their interrelationships will be analyzed through the major political, economic and trade regimes, e.g. G7, LAIA, LAES, Cartagena (G-l1), MERCOSUR. The course will assess the impact of international institutions such as IADB, IMF, APEC, the WTO, etc. on national policy making and economic development: NAFTA treaty and the project of a Free Trade Zone for the Americas, political and trade linkages with European Union and Bilateral Chilean Agreements. (3 credits)
8 Presentations followed by group discussions, using materials that students have to prepare in advance. Seminar activity during the last 6 weeks. Students have to prepare a previous short presentation plus paper on one of the subjects of the course that they have chosen. Active participation from students is required. Three additional team tutorial meetings with course lecturers.
Mandatory attendance (absences must be well justified); individual presentation (30%); group paper (30%) [Group papers will be written by small groups of students. Each paper will be 20-25 pages. Each group will choose its own subject, e.g. how one international agreement is impacting Chile, or study negotiations in progress, or case studies]; final exam (40%).
Muñoz, Heraldo, Compilador, América Latina y los desafíos del nuevo milenio, Editorial Aguilar, Santiago de Chile, agosto de 2000.
Carnevalli, Ilaria, MERCOSUR-Chile: Temas emergentes y posiciones de los actores chilenos, FLACSO Chile, 1999.
Salazar Spaks, Juan, Chile y la Comunidad del Pacífico, Editorial Universitaria, 2° edición, Santiago de Chile, 1999.
Cecchini, Paolo, Europa 1992: Una apuesta de futuro, Alianza Editorial, Madrid 1998.
FLACSO Chile, varios autores, Inserción económica internacional de América Latina, Santiago 2000.
Guía de las Negociaciones Comerciales de Chile, publicación oficial de DIRECON, Dirección de Relaciones Económicas de la Cancillería de Chile, Santiago 2000. Disponible en impreso y accesible también en htpp://www.direcon.cl
Negociaciones para un Tratado de Libre Comercio con EEUU, publicación oficial de DIRECON, Dirección de Relaciones Económicas de la Cancillería de Chile, Santiago, Agosto de 2000. Disponible sólo en impreso.
Morales, Eugenia, “Democracia, Libre Comercio y Globalización en América Latina”, en Revista Política del ICPUCH, volumen 35, Primavera 1997.
“Trabas al libre comercio entre Chile y los EEUU,” en Documento de Trabajo N°66 del ICPUCH, 1998.
Los bloques economicos y el desafio de las politicas culturales, en proceso de publicación en documento de trabajo y en website. Invierno de 2001.
M. Ealsoan, (Israel, Ricardo, Editor), “Chile del Bicentenario: Desafíos Futuros”, Editorial Don Bosco, Santiago de Chile, Noviembre de 2000.
---- Desmormeaux, Jorge, La Globalización Económica, un desafío y una oportunidad.
Gajardo, Patricio: Chile 2010: Las Relaciones Internacionales.
---- Cousino, Jose Antonio, Política y Estrategia en el Pacífico Insular, Instituto de Estudios Internacionales de la Universidad de Chile, Santiago, 1997.
Baumant, Zygmunt, “La Globalización: Consecuencias Humanas”. Fondo de Cultura Económica, B. Aires, 1999.
Millet, Paz, Gaspar, Gabriel y Rojas, Francisco, “Chile-MERCOSUR: Una alianza estratégica”. FLACSO Chile, Santiago, 1997.
Taletti, Victorio, “Constelación Sur: América Latina frente a la globalización”. Fondo de Cultura Económica, B. Aires, 1996.
Websites
http://www.usembassy.cl: Access to information, databases and negotiation process between Chile and the USA and the project of Integration of the Americas.
http://www.direcon.cl: Access to official information on databases from the Chilean Government in Trade and Political issues.
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/santiago: The Canadian Embassy in Chile which connects to several links where you can get information about negotiation process before NAFTA, current interest groups in trade and politics, etc.
Materials could change trying to work with the most updated. Final list will be implemented at the library of ICPUCH and delivered to students at the beginning of the semester.
All materials are available at the library of ICPUCH