University of Urbino From the SelectedWorks of Mario Pianta 2001 Trade and labour Mario Pianta Available at: https://works.bepress.com/mario_pianta/62/ Global Trade and Globalising Society Challenges for Governance and Sustainability: the Role of the EU Proceedings of a dialogue workshop held in Brussels on 14-15 December 2000 Edited by Angela Liberatore and Nikolaos Christoforides Brussels, November 2001 PREFACE Preface Fostering dialogue between researchers, policymakers and citizens The European Union is undergoing radical changes in its social, economic, political, technological, demographic, cultural and institutional structure. These changes range from the establishment of a common currency to the introduction of a European citizenship, from new family structures to new ways of working, all this while Europe is enlarging and acting in a global context. Research can play a constructive role in understanding those changes, identifying opportunities and risks, assessing the feasibility, acceptability and impacts of different policy options. Such constructive role however can only be played if research enters in sustained dialogue with those who are at the same time potential users of research, actors of change, and holders of important forms of practical knowledge. In other words, research should not only aim at ‘communicating its results’ to the people ‘outside’ the research system, but should also ‘listen to and learn from’ the experience and concerns of the various social actors or- as it is often said- the various ‘stakeholders’. The ‘dialogue workshops’ series organised within the Key Action ‘Improving the socio-economic knowledge base’ intends therefore to improve multidirectional communication –as opposed to unidirectional diffusion of information- in relation to a number of different but related issues and functions. Namely in view of supporting policy formulation and implementation, formulating research, providing evidence and arguments for informed public debate. The dialogue workshop ‘Global Trade and Globalising Societies. Challenges for Governance and Sustainability: the role of the EU’, held in Brussels on 14-15 December 2000 addressed a number of key issues. It addressed the different ‘faces’ of globalisation –economic, social, cultural, institutional- and its different impacts. Moreover it contributed to the assessment of the options to ‘govern globalisation’, focusing on the role of the European Union. Such assessment includes the examination of consistency between different policy goals (e.g. sustainable development and competitiveness) and between internal policies and external positions (e.g. in the agriculture sector); it must also take into account social acceptability of decisions and greater scrutiny of the decision process itself. The workshops identified venues for further research as well as issues to be tackled in the policy arena; the two are distinct but closely related. For example, further research on international equity goes hand in hand with the development and testing of instruments to distribute benefits and compensate for losses. We hope that these proceedings will be a useful instrument to continue the dialogue held at the workshop on a process, such as globalisation, that is not a matter of exclusive competence of a few experts but rather affects anyone’s life. Jean-François Marchipont 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of contents PREFACE Jean-François Marchipont .................................................................................................................... 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS ....................................................................................................................... 7 INTRODUCTION Angela Liberatore................................................................................................................................... 9 Global Trade and Globalizing Societies: Challenges to Governance and Sustainability– The Role of the EU - Synthesis Sophie Thoyer ...................................................................................................................................... 13 PROBLEMS AND OPPORTUNITIES OF GLOBALISATION ....................................................... 27 Globalization: Notes on Trade, Investment and Development Anthony Venables................................................................................................................................. 29 Problems and Opportunities of Globalisation from a Social and Environmental Perspective Wolfgang Sachs.................................................................................................................................... 41 Problems and Opportunities from an Institutional Perspective Mark A. Pollack.................................................................................................................................... 45 Improving International Policy Coherence: Finance, Trade, Development, Social, and Environment Policie Richard Eglin ....................................................................................................................................... 51 Globalisation; the Positive and the Negative Michael Green. ..................................................................................................................................... 57 ATTITUDES TOWARD GLOBALISATION AS EXPRESSION OF DIFFERENT NEEDS......... 65 Social Movements Challenging Neo-liberal Globalisation Dieter Rucht.......................................................................................................................................... 67 Sustainable Globalisation – a Utopia ? Paul E. Metz ......................................................................................................................................... 75 Global Governance Robert Madelin..................................................................................................................................... 77 Globalisation: developing countries’ attitudes and needs A. M. K. Delhavi ................................................................................................................................... 79 Globalisation and developing countries: diversity of causalities, performances, and policies Alice Sindzingre.................................................................................................................................... 81 Attitudes towards globalisation as expression of diverse needs – especially in regard to business, including transnational corporations György Széll .......................................................................................................................................... 89 REDEFINING GLOBAL GOVERNANCE: THE CASE OF TRADE AND ITS RELATIONS WITH OTHER POLICIES .................................................................................................................. 93 Trade and Labour Mario Pianta......................................................................................................................................... 95 Global Social Standards Isabelle Daugareilh ............................................................................................................................ 103 Governance issues related to the interface of trade with specific areas Jonathan Michie................................................................................................................................. 109 7 TABLE OF CONTENTS Global Governance, Trade and Environment Jakob Werksman ................................................................................................................................ 113 Convergence or Polarization ? Envisaging The Environmental and Development Effects of Globalization in Developing Countries Roldan Muradian ............................................................................................................................... 115 Globalization and trade: A challenge for human health Bettina Menne .................................................................................................................................... 117 Trade and…: The Agenda of Trade Linkages Konrad von Moltke............................................................................................................................. 119 International cooperation, free-riding and coalition building Sophie Thoyer..................................................................................................................................... 129 Challenges concerning the governance of global public goods Daniel Piazolo..................................................................................................................................... 133 EUROPE IN AN INTERDEPENDENT WORLD............................................................................ 135 Which Globalisation? Building a European Model of Critique Michalis Lianos .................................................................................................................................. 137 Changing European Governance-global economy and globalising society Brigid Laffan ...................................................................................................................................... 141 Conditions and Alliances for EU International Leadership Jim Rollo............................................................................................................................................. 145 EU Trade Policy 2000