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%T The Social Clause of the U.S.-Jordan Free Trade Agreement: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? %A Malkawi, Bashar H. %J Journal of Law: A refereed Academic Quarterly %P 11-42 %V 32 %D 2008 %K Jordan; environment; labor; FTA; U.S.; WTO %@ 01029-6069 %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-64322-8 %X Section II gives background to the inclusion of environment and labor in the US-JO FTA, and briefly describes the divergent views for including or not including these issues in trade agreements. Section III analyzes the environment provisions of the US-JO FTA. It points out the inadequacies in the environment provisions. This section further points out the differences between the environment provisions of the US-JO FTA and the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation. Section IV reviews the labor provisions of the US-JO FTA. In addition, section IV explains the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation. Section V discusses recent FTAs concluded between the U.S. and Arab countries such as Bahrain and Oman. Section VI presents some methods which have the potential of finding a common ground between free trade, environment and labor rights for future trade agreements between the U.S. and Arab countries. Concluding observations are in section VII. %C MISC %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info