January 2008
About this publication
1. FTAs: the big picture (bilaterals.org and GRAIN)
- Colonisation redux: new agreements, old games
- Today’s FTA frenzy
- FTAs and biodiversity
- What is going on where?
- Changing South-South trade and investment dynamics
- Social activism around FTAs
2. Impacts and fightbacks
Asia & Pacific
- Australia-US Free Trade Agreement - fair trade or foul? Jemma Bailey
- Fighting FTAs: the experience in Thailand FTA Watch
- Sealing JPEPA: Through stealth and by force Sandra Nicolas
- The struggle against neoliberalism in South Korea: history and lessons Korean Alliance against the Korea-US FTA
- “Free” trade killing farmers in India Devinder Sharma
Africa & Middle East
Latin America & Caribbean
- Fourteen years of NAFTA and the tortilla crisis Ana de Ita
- FTA resistance in Colombia interview with Aurelio Suárez
- Legal (un)certainty - over what? Margarita Flórez
- The opposition to CAFTA in Costa Rica: Institutionalisation of a social movement Maria Eugenio Trejos with the collaboration of Eva Carazo, Isaac Rojas, Silvia Rodríguez and Luis Paulino Vargas
- Two years of CAFTA: deep impacts in Central America and the Dominican Republic GRAIN
- Integration or free trade? Raúl Zibechi
- Resource colonialism and the Chile-Argentina Mining Treaty GRAIN
- Women versus CAFTA: declaration of the “Women of NO” Mujeres del NO
3. Strategic learnings (bilaterals.org, BIOTHAI and GRAIN)
Going further:
- download the PDF of the entire publication: high resolution (64Mb) or low resolution (14Mb)
- listen to the audio interviews
- watch the videos