Kennedy's initiative for a new Gatt Round: liberalising international trade and strengthening the Atlantic alliance -- The EEC's answer to the U.S. proposal: accepting the Round while defending its regionalism -- Devising the rule of the Kennedy Round (1963-1964) -- The regional crisis in a...

This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...