Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2023
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40797-023-00240-8
Abstract
Systemic conflicts increasingly affect the global value chains (GVCs) underpinning globalization by creating policy uncertainty and politicizing trade and investment decisions. Unilateral policies to attain competitiveness and noneconomic objectives (NEOs), including national security, create incentives for international cooperation to attenuate policy spillovers. Recent initiatives seeking to do so are organized around supply chain governance and need not be anchored in trade agreements. Whether such cooperation is feasible and can be designed to be effective in realizing NEOs is unclear. Plurilateral GVC-centered cooperation offers a potential path for states to pursue NEOs and reduce policy uncertainty for international business. Research offers little guidance to policymakers on the design of such cooperation. Akey open question is to determine whether explicit market access commitments are necessary to sustain cooperation. Creating mechanisms for the epistemic communities that are concerned with a specific NEO or policy area to interact with stakeholders and lead firms operating international production networks can help inform the design of cooperation to attain NEOs more efficiently.
Disciplines
International Economics | International Trade Law | Law
Creative Commons License
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Recommended Citation
Bernard M. Hoekman, Petros C. Mavroidis & Douglas R. Nelson,
Noneconomic Objectives, Global Value Chains and International Cooperation,
Ital. Econ. J.
(2023).
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