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Trade Negotiations
Strategic Planning
In a trade negotiations context, conventional planning and strategy is about winning concessions from other parties. One ironic consequence of globalisation is the mounting pressure for fairness and clear intention aimed at the common good. In the future, a more intensive search for balance and for equity will be paramount.This is clearly the lesson being digested since Seattle.
Contemporary trade negotiations are undergoing significant change, both in process and content. The main multilateral negotiations forum, the World Trade Organisation, is seeking a more effective participatory model for government-to-government bargaining. In addition, backed by a rising tide of popular sentiment, an impressive coalition of NGOs are pressing for overt linkages to issues of concern to civil society.
For governments, the demands of steering an effective course in trade negotiations has been complicated by the emergence of new issues that traditionally have been beyond the realm of the trade dossier. Yet, today questions related to trade impacts on environment, development, gender, and labour must be built into the international trade calculus.
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