Tourism and International Relations (3): Globalization and World Trade - (Diploma-Postgraduate)

Contents, Concepts and Issues

· Globalization as increasing worldwide integration of communications, culture, and economics

· Globalization and national culture

· Globalization and financial risk management

· The emergence of the World Trade Agreement (WTA)

· The World Trade Organisation (WTO)

· Dumping, anti-dumping and anti-subsidy: Introduction

· Detecting and validating dumping

· Dumping and counter countervailing measures

· China and India and WTO: Cases in points

· The sunset agreement

· United State and Britain: The cold trade world

· The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

· The General Agreement of Trade in Services (GATS)

· The inspection of GATS

· The objectives of GATS

· International participation in GATS

· Services covered by GATS

· Opposition to GATS

· Who are the main beneficiaries of GATS

· GATS and National and International frontiers

· GATS and National Sovereignty

· GATS and National Security

· The case of US port (P and O ferries) and the (Dubai ports authority)

· GATS and the US stance

· Accommodating GATS: The European prospective

· GATS and national markets in infiltration

· The UK’s attribute to GATS