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題 名 | The Trade Policy of the Rudd Government and Its Implications for Northeast Asia=陸克文政府的貿易政策及其對東北亞的影響 |
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作 者 | 李察.利佛爾; | 書刊名 | WTO研究 |
卷 期 | 14 2010[民99] |
頁 次 | 頁1-24 |
分類號 | 558.1 |
關鍵詞 | 陸克文; 澳洲貿易政策; 東北亞; 澳洲工黨; Kevin Rudd; Australian trade policy; Northeast Asia; ALP; |
語 文 | 英文(English) |
中文摘要 | 陸克文有充分的時間來擘劃工黨新政府的外交貿易政策。2003年下半年澳洲國會裡的工黨充滿著世代交替的氣氛,而陸克文本身就是其中的重要部分。雷森(Mark Latham)以些微多數取代運氣不佳的克林(Simon Crean)擔任工黨黨魁。雷森隨即指派陸克文(Kevin Rudd)為其影子內閣裡的外長一職。因此,陸克文與他的顧問們有四年的時間來制訂工黨新政府的外交貿易政策的大綱。除一項例外外,他們所釐定的政策路線大抵與傳統工黨導向一致,即將與美國的同盟視為澳洲政策的基石、重返多邊的機制以及加強區域的交往。這三項政策柱石在貿易政策上似乎都表現得很明確,因為他們對霍華德(John Howard)政府時代所積極推動的雙邊自由貿易協定抱持懷疑的態度,而偏好多邊主義。 本文主旨即在首先剖析陸克文工黨政府在未上台時是如何擘劃其未來的貿易政策及其所面對的環境,然後討論其對澳洲與東北亞貿易的意義。 |
英文摘要 | Kevin Rudd had plenty of time to plan the foreign and trade policies of a new Labor government. He was a significant part of the mood for ‘generational shift’ that swept though the parliamentary Labor party in late 2003. This mood saw Mark Latham narrowly installed as leader in place of the hapless Simon Crean, and Latham in turn re-anointed Rudd as shadow foreign minister. Thereafter, Rudd and his advisors had four years to outline the foreign and trade policies for a new Labor government. Their plan was, with one arguable exception, conventional Labor Party boilerplate: the US alliance as the cornerstone of Australian policy; the return to multilateral modalities; and greater effort for regional engagement. This ‘three pillars policy’ appeared to speak loudly and unequivocally to trade policy, for its preference for multilateralism dovetailed neatly with Labor’s evolving scepticism about the bilateral free trade agreements much favoured by the Howard government. Back in 1999 and 2000, when Howard first embraced commercial bilateralism, Beazley’s Labor party had refused to follow. True enough, Latham did eventually fall in behind the 2004 Australia – US FTA, but only in a highly qualified and begrudging kind of way. But even this turned out to be a quite temporary embrace; after Latham disappeared in his own cloud of smoke, Labor criticisms of bilaterals redoubled. Particularly noteworthy was the 2006 critique of the AUSFTA by Michael Costello, Beazley’s former Chief of Staff, that Australia was ‘done over’ by the Americans in this deal, and that the country should have no desire to see it happen again. Consequently, by the time China emerged as Australia’s major trading partner in 2007, Labor’s scepticism about bilateral trade deals was very much back in vogue.? Opposition plans, however, only rise off the drawing board in the actual circumstances that prevail when a new government arrives in office. And in November 2007, three circumstances qualified upon Labor’s trade plans: the factional circumstances that attended Rudd’s rise to the leadership of his party; the recessionary circumstances that, even then, loomed on the horizon, and the circumstances of a bull market in commodities that was nearing its zenith. This paper describes the ways in which plans and circumstances came together, and the implications for Australian trade with Northeast Asia. |
本系統中英文摘要資訊取自各篇刊載內容。