Bibliographic record
Abstract
This is not only a book for international lawyers. International relations scholars and economists will find it a useful thought-provoking critical analysis on how to understand the functionality of regional trade regimes in the Global South. This monograph is the first of its kind to provide an innovative account of four regional trade agreements (RTAs) – that is, the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) and the United States–Mexico–Canada Free Trade Agreement (USMCA) – from the prism of normative beliefs and interests. This book argues that while there has been immense enthusiasm amongst countries in the Global South to create RTAs, the enthusiasm has not been translated into concerted efforts to make the RTAs work as envisaged. RTAs in the Global South are largely void of concreteness. This book reflects on how normative beliefs and interests inform inter-state relations and, thereby, the law of regional economic community. In so doing, we argue that the idea of prosperity underpinning RTAs as they currently exist is more of a mirage than reality.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".