Faculty Visitors

GIANDOMENICO MAJONE

Born at Como, Italy, March 27, 1932; married, two children

EDUCATION:

M.A. (Political Economy), University of Padua, 1956

M.S. (Mathematics), Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1960

Ph.D. (Statistics), University of California, Berkley, 1965

Fulbright Scholar, George Washington University, 1954-1955

PRESENT POSITIONS:

External Professor, European University Institute, Florence, Italy

Visiting Distinguished Professor, EU Center and Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh

PREVIOUS POSITIONS:

Professor of Public Policy Analysis, European University Institute, 1986-1995

BOOKS:

Regulating Europe, Routledge, September 1996.

The European Community as a Regulatory State, published by Nijhoff in the Series of Lectures of the Academy of European Law, 1995.

Deregulation or Re-regulation? Regulatory Reform in Europe and the United States, London: Francis Pinter, 1990. (Paperback edition 1992).

(with E.Noel and P. van den Bosche), Jean Monnet, L'Europe d'aujourd'hui, Baden Baden, 1989.

Evidence, Argument, and Persuasion in the Policy Process, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989. (Paperback edition, 1992). Spanish translation, Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1996.

Guidance, Control and Evaluation in the Public Sector (co-editor and co-author), Berlin: Walter De Gruyter & Co., 1985.

Pitfalls of Analysis (co-editor and co-author), London: Wiley, 1980.

SYLLABUS

The EU, the U.S., and the WTO: The Challenges of Deeper Integration

Professor: Giandomenico Majone

Semester: Fall 2000 (3 credit, graduate course)

GSPIA 2940 (to be offered in the evenings)

Description:

As the globalization of the economy continues to advance, issues of "deeper" integration become increasingly important on the international agenda. The older agenda of international trade was largely concerned with measures "at the border": tariffs, quotas, and other quantitative restrictions. The issues of deeper integration concern "behind-the-border" policies and institutions that previously had not been subjected to in9/13/07ncern with behind-the-border arrangements pushes the issue of harmonization toward the top of the policy agenda in the EU, the U.S., and in the wider community of trading nations. However, the experience of the EC/EU shows the difficulty of harmonizing the rules, policies and institutions of countries with vastly different political, legal, and administrative traditions. These difficulties have forced a reassessment of various harmonization strategies, and stimulated the search for alternatives to harmonization. The important point is that in the context of deeper integration, trade policy cannot be understood independently of the legal, institutional, and political realities that constrain it.

The purpose of this course is to examine the theory and practice of international trade in a way that attempts to explain how both theory and practice have been effectively constrained by constitutional and political factors. Because the world trading system is a complex interplay of both national and international norms, institutions, and policies, it cannot be understood if only the national or the international components are studied. In fact, the WTO is what it is at least in part because of the constitutional structure and policy preferences of the EU and the U.S. Conversely, the laws and policies of the EU and the U.S.are, at least partly, what they are because of the GATT/WTO System.

By examining the institutional makeup of the EU, the U.S., and the WTO, the course will provide a deeper insight into the world trading system than can be achieved from a single national of disciplinary perspective.

Required Readings:

J.H. Bhagwati and R.E. Hudec (eds.), Fair Trade and Harmonization, Vols. 1 and 2, The MIT Press, 1996 (selected chapters).
Dominic Mc Goldrick: "International Relations Law of the EU," London and New York, 1997. (Publisher is Longman).
J.H. Jackson, The World Trading System, The MIT Press, 1997, Second Edition.
M. Kohler, International Institutions and the Political Economy of Integration, Washington D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1995.
J. Pelkmans, European Integration, New York: Longman, 1996.
E.-U. Petersmann, "The International Competition Policy of the EC…, in F. Snyder (ed.), Constitutional Dimensions of European Economic Integration, Cambridge, MA: Kluwer Law International, 1996, pp.289-336.
E.-U. Petersmann, "Constitutionalism and International Organizations", Northwestern Journal of of International and Business, vol. 17, (1996-97), pp. 398-469.
A.O. Sykes, Product Standards for Internationally Traded Goods, Washington D. C: The Brookings Institution, 1995.
S. Weatherhill, Law and Integration in the European Union, Oxford: Clarendon Press,1995.
J.H.H. Weiler and J.P. Trachtmann, "European Constitutionalism and its Discontents", Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business, vol. 17 (1996-97), pp. 354-395.
J.H.H. Weiler, The Constitution of Europe, Cambridge University Press, 1999 (selected chapters).

Student Requirements:

15-page research paper, accumulative take-home final examination, and class participation.

Schedule:

Week of August 28 - September 1

International Economic Regulation

Jackson, The World Trading System, ch. 1

Bhagwati, "The Demands to Reduce Domestic Diversity among Trading Nations", in Bhagwati and Hudec, Fair Trade and Harmonization, vol. 1, ch. 1

Week of September 4 - September 8

The International Institutions of Trade

Jackson, ch. 2

Kahler, International Institutions and the Political Economy of Integration, ch. 1

Week of September 11 - September 15

Internati9/13/07
Kahler, chs 2-4

Weiler, The Constitution of Europe, ch. 5

Week of September 18 - September 22

Constitutionalism and the Global Order

Petersmann, "Constitutionalism and International Organizations"

Weiler and Trachtmann "European Constitutionalism and its Discontents"

Week of September 25 - September 29

National Institutions and the WTO

Jackson, ch. 3

Weiler, The Constitution of Europe, chs 1, 4

Week of October 2 - October 6

The Economic Constitution of the EU

Pelkmans, European Integration, chs 1-4

Week of October 9 - October 13

The Internal Market - I

Pelkmans, chs 5, 7

Week of October 16 - October 20

The Internal Market - II

Pelkmans, ch. 9

S. Weatherill, Law and Integration in the EU, chs 1-2

Week of October 23 - October 27

The Internal Market - III

Weatherill, chs 3-5

Week of October 30 - November 3

The Common Policies of the EU - I

Pelkmans, chs 11-12

Week of November 6 - November 10

The Common Policies of the EU - II

Pelkmans, ch. 13

Week of November 13 - November 17

Tariff and Nontariff Barriers - I

Jackson, chs 4, 5, 8

Week of November 20 - November 24

Tariff and Nontariff Barriers - II

Sykes, Product Standards for Internationally Traded Goods, chs 4-5

Week of November 27 - December 1

Trade and Competition Policy - IPetersmann, "The International

Competition Policy of the EC…"

Jackson, ch. 10

Week of December 4 - December 8

Trade and Competition Policy - II

Jackson, ch. 11

J. Levinsohn, "Competition Policy and International Trade", in Bhagwati and Hudec, vol. 1, ch. 8.

Week of December 11 - December 15

Conclusions and Perspectives

Jackson, chs 12-14