Path Dependency and the Politics of Liberalisation in the Textiles and Clothing Industry

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Earlier versions of this paper were presented to panels at the 2006 British International Studies Association annual conference, University of Cork, Ireland, and the 2007 International Studies Association annual conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA. The authors would like thank the participants of these two panels, as well as the editors of NPE and two anonymous reviewers, for helpful comments and suggestions. The authors take full responsibility for any errors that remain. Notes 1. See, inter alia, Neil McCullock, Alan Winters & Xavier Cirera, Trade Liberalization and Poverty: A Handbook (Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2001); Martin Wolf, Why Globalisation Works (Yale University Press, 2004); Joseph Stiglitz & Andrew Charlton, Fair Trade for…