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As we approach the transition to Dr. Sun Yat-Sen's Pacific Century, how may best reconcile international rules and norms in the interest of conflict avoidance? Arguably by investigating and refining those tools which will afford us the opportunity to restructure regional preference in the shape of the European Union experiment over more problematic models in the Middle East and East Asia. Preference, as the more responsive dynamic of the preference/capacity equation, can most certainly be homogenized by economic development, even exogenously driven if the right tools are refined toward a repeatable strategic utility. And, as proven in historical context, most notably in the modern era by the Marshall Plan, economic development can most certainly be relied upon as a mechanism of regional conflict reduction. As such, it is quite possible for leading nations to manage the economic development of other nations in the interest of conflict avoidance. It, in fact, is not only a possibility but a responsibility which must be recognized and executed through tools of exogenous determination. My proposal thus investigates the potential of managed mutual recognition as a trade liberalization paradigm whose contagious character may be exploited and strategically deployed in the interest of conflict avoidance. Increasingly, the largest obstacles to trade (and therefore to the interdependence that can prevent a contentious transition) are regulatory in nature. Mutual Recognition was the revolutionary key to the rapid economic integration that allowed for seamless political integration within the European Union experiment. Consequently, the concept of Managed Mutual Recognition was birthed from a retroactive analysis of how those negotiations in particular might have been expedited and afforded a greater margin of success, namely through ex ante cooperation and ex post coordination, in recognition of inherent organizational dynamics. Rather than focus upon cultural dissimilarities as a limited determinant of negotiational impasse (as recent scholarship has done), it places greater significance upon the trade/regulatory organizational dichotomy as a universally explanatory variable. Regardless, the process of MMR is indeed unique, exacting normative and strategic external 'spillover' effects from each internal negotiation in which it is used. As such, it will eventually spread throughout the globe, most certainly as we move forward with our transition from a European to a Pacific orientation. But, how may we best harness its utility towards preference restructure, given its relevance to conflict prevention? As a consultant to the lead negotiator for the US for the US/EU trade negotiations in the 1990s and now as a Fulbright Scholar and Fellow of North American Integration working with the new Canadian Council of the Federation (of the provinces), I have been afforded the luxury of an insider's perspective on a multiplicity of trade negotiations. Most intriguing among them are the age-old interprovincial conflicts of Canada, which, as a case study, now offers the rest of the globe an ideal Petri dish of analogies. Thus, as the subject of my year long field research, this paper explores the MMR paradigm in its first proactive experiment, with a fundamental focus upon the extension of its utility to the Middle East and East Asia, in the interest of a positive impact upon the Pacific Century. In consequence, may the compelling promise of this tool, as evidenced by the historical context of exceptionally divergent scenarios from the EU to APEC, well facilitate preference homogenizing at the most basic levels of culture through one of the oldest and most enduring human incentives - trade. Even more, with religious extremism replacing political ideologies as the most immediate threat to international harmony, leading nations are further compelled to investigate every avenue of interaction - and thereby, models to expedite that interaction. Indeed, at base, it is only through the empathy created by interaction, that leading nations may strategically harmonize preferences, ultimately foster conflict avoidance, and impart the instructive international rules and norms of the European Century to our collective Pacific future. |
MLA Citation:
| Schmitz, Joelle. "Regulatory Liberalization: A Means Toward Preference Homogenizing and Progressive Norms in the new Pacific Century." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, Mar 05, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p70323_index.html> |
APA Citation:
| Schmitz, J. A. , 2005-03-05 "Regulatory Liberalization: A Means Toward Preference Homogenizing and Progressive Norms in the new Pacific Century." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p70323_index.html |
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Abstract: As we approach the transition to Dr. Sun Yat-Sen's Pacific Century, how may best reconcile international rules and norms in the interest of conflict avoidance? Arguably by investigating and refining those tools which will afford us the opportunity to restructure regional preference in the shape of the European Union experiment over more problematic models in the Middle East and East Asia. Preference, as the more responsive dynamic of the preference/capacity equation, can most certainly be homogenized by economic development, even exogenously driven if the right tools are refined toward a repeatable strategic utility. And, as proven in historical context, most notably in the modern era by the Marshall Plan, economic development can most certainly be relied upon as a mechanism of regional conflict reduction. As such, it is quite possible for leading nations to manage the economic development of other nations in the interest of conflict avoidance. It, in fact, is not only a possibility but a responsibility which must be recognized and executed through tools of exogenous determination. My proposal thus investigates the potential of managed mutual recognition as a trade liberalization paradigm whose contagious character may be exploited and strategically deployed in the interest of conflict avoidance. Increasingly, the largest obstacles to trade (and therefore to the interdependence that can prevent a contentious transition) are regulatory in nature. Mutual Recognition was the revolutionary key to the rapid economic integration that allowed for seamless political integration within the European Union experiment. Consequently, the concept of Managed Mutual Recognition was birthed from a retroactive analysis of how those negotiations in particular might have been expedited and afforded a greater margin of success, namely through ex ante cooperation and ex post coordination, in recognition of inherent organizational dynamics. Rather than focus upon cultural dissimilarities as a limited determinant of negotiational impasse (as recent scholarship has done), it places greater significance upon the trade/regulatory organizational dichotomy as a universally explanatory variable. Regardless, the process of MMR is indeed unique, exacting normative and strategic external 'spillover' effects from each internal negotiation in which it is used. As such, it will eventually spread throughout the globe, most certainly as we move forward with our transition from a European to a Pacific orientation. But, how may we best harness its utility towards preference restructure, given its relevance to conflict prevention? As a consultant to the lead negotiator for the US for the US/EU trade negotiations in the 1990s and now as a Fulbright Scholar and Fellow of North American Integration working with the new Canadian Council of the Federation (of the provinces), I have been afforded the luxury of an insider's perspective on a multiplicity of trade negotiations. Most intriguing among them are the age-old interprovincial conflicts of Canada, which, as a case study, now offers the rest of the globe an ideal Petri dish of analogies. Thus, as the subject of my year long field research, this paper explores the MMR paradigm in its first proactive experiment, with a fundamental focus upon the extension of its utility to the Middle East and East Asia, in the interest of a positive impact upon the Pacific Century. In consequence, may the compelling promise of this tool, as evidenced by the historical context of exceptionally divergent scenarios from the EU to APEC, well facilitate preference homogenizing at the most basic levels of culture through one of the oldest and most enduring human incentives - trade. Even more, with religious extremism replacing political ideologies as the most immediate threat to international harmony, leading nations are further compelled to investigate every avenue of interaction - and thereby, models to expedite that interaction. Indeed, at base, it is only through the empathy created by interaction, that leading nations may strategically harmonize preferences, ultimately foster conflict avoidance, and impart the instructive international rules and norms of the European Century to our collective Pacific future. |
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