The Pacific Alliance in a World of Preferential Trade Agreements

The Pacific Alliance in a World of Preferential Trade Agreements: An Introduction (Pierre Sauvé, Rodrigo Polanco Lazo and José Manuel Álvarez Zárate).- Part 1. Situating the Pacific Alliance in Comparative Context.- Chapter 1. The Pacific Alliance: Building a Pathway to the High-Hanging Fruits of Deep Integration (Ana María Palacio).- Chapter 2. Trade and Investment Relations in the Pacific Alliance: Recent Developments and Future Trends (José Durán Lima and Daniel Cracau).- Chapter 3. The Pacific Alliance: WTO+ and WTO-X? (Camilo Pérez Restrepo and Alma Sofía Castro Lara).- Chapter 4. A Global Value Chain-Friendly Construct? The Pacific Alliance and International Production Networks (Iza Lejárraga).- Chapter 5. Trade, Economic and Political Integration in Latin America: The Common Market of the South (Mercosur) and the Pacific Alliance (Andrés Rebolledo Smitmans and Nicolás Albertoni Gómez).- Chapter 6. Joining the Pacific Alliance: Costa Rican Perspectives (Susana Wong and Carolina Palma).- Part 2. The Pacific Alliance's Substantive Disciplines: Current and Future Challenges.- Chapter 7. Services commitments in the Pacific Alliance (Doris López, Felipe Muñoz and Angélica Corvalán).-    Chapter 8. Darwinism and Liberalization of Trade in Services: What's the Connection? (Eric Leroux).- Chapter 9. The International Investment Agreements of the Pacific Alliance Members and their Relationship of "Coexistence" with Chapter 10 of the Pacific Alliance Additional Protocol (Víctor Saco).- Chapter 10. Situating the Pacific Alliance in Global Electronic Commerce Regulation (María del Carmen Vásquez Callo-Müller).- Chapter 11. The Pacific Alliance: adding value to the global intellectual property rights regime? (Rodrigo Corredor).- Chapter 12. Law and Competition Policy in a Regional Context: Pacific Alliance Insights from the European Union's Experience (Ulf Thoene and Loly Aylú Gaitán-Guerrero).- Chapter 13. Dispute Settlement in the Pacific Alliance (José Manuel

Pierre Sauvé

Pierre Sauvé serves as a Senior Trade Specialist in the Geneva office of the World Bank Group. Previously, he served as Director of External Programs and Academic Partnerships at the University of Bern's World Trade Institute (WTI), in Switzerland. He holds visiting professor appointments at the WTI and at the University of Barcelona. He taught at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris and at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2003-05. He served as a senior economist in the OECD Trade Directorate from 1993-2002, a period during which he also taught at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and was appointed Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. (1998-2000). He served as services negotiator within the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Office of North American Free Trade Negotiations (1991-93). He was previously a staff member of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in Geneva, Switzerland (1988-91) and of the Bank for International Settlements, in Basel, Switzerland (1987-88). Mr. Sauvé was educated in economics and international relations at the Université du Québec à Montreal and Carleton University in Canada and at Cambridge and Oxford universities in the United Kingdom. His research interests lie in the areas of services trade, the regulation of foreign direct investment and comparative regional integration, issues on which he has published extensively. His latest book, co-edited with Martin Roy and entitled "Research Handbook on Trade in Services", was published by Edgar Elgar 2016.



Rodrigo PolancoRodrigo is a senior lecturer and researcher at the World Trade Institute of the University of Bern. He is also a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Luzern and a visiting professor at the University of Chile, where he also served as an assistant professor and director of international relations of