Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Making of a Regime: United States Foreign Economic Policy, Intellectual Property Rights and Economic Development

博士论文研究：政权的形成：美国对外经济政策、知识产权和经济发展

• 批准号: 9617474
• 负责人: David Cingranelli
• 金额: $ 0.73万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Binghamton
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-02-01 至 1998-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9617474&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Making; Regime

For nearly fifteen years the United States led the way in advocating a global regime for the protection of intellectual property rights (IPR). With the signing of the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in December, 1995, that goal was achieved. The Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property, Including Trade in Counterfeit Goods commits all signatory nations to the strong Western-style IPR system that the United States has advocated. However the United States' interest in securing a strong IPR regime is a very recent phenomena. Initial research suggests that early in its infancy, the United States did not favor strong IPR, particularly in terms of protecting foreign intellectual property from duplication in the US. This Doctoral Dissertation Research grant allows an analysis of IPR as a global policy. The two specific questions addressed are: 1) how did the United States' position on IPR evolve from one of advocating weak IPR protection to one of favoring strong global protection of IPR? 2) What is the potential impact of imposing such a strong global IPR regime on developing countries, given the United States' early experience with the IPR issue? To this end, the research answers how the global IPR issue evolved, who were the primary actors in forming the policy, and what are the potential effects of the new policy. Both qualitative and quantitative empirical methods of analysis are employed to address these questions. Qualitative research is used to trace the US historical experience with IPR, demonstrating the pivotal role that domestic institutions such as the Congress and interest groups played in elevating IPR to a global issue. Quantitative research is utilized to test the effects of IPR on the development process which the US and other countries have argued will be enhanced by following a Western-style IPR system. This Doctoral Dissertation Research project promises to enhance substantially our understanding of this interesting and important problem.

近15年来，美国带头倡导建立一个保护知识产权的全球制度。 随着1995年12月关税及贸易总协定乌拉圭回合的签署，这一目标已经实现。 《与贸易有关的知识产权包括假冒商品贸易协定》要求所有签署国遵守美国所倡导的强有力的西方式知识产权制度。 然而，美国对确保强有力的知识产权制度的兴趣是最近才出现的现象。 最初的研究表明，在早期，美国并不赞成强有力的知识产权，特别是在保护外国知识产权免受美国复制方面。 这个博士论文研究资助允许知识产权作为一项全球政策的分析。 具体涉及的两个问题是：1）美国在知识产权问题上的立场是如何从主张知识产权保护不力演变为主张全球知识产权保护有力的？ 2)鉴于美国在知识产权问题上的早期经验，对发展中国家实行如此强有力的全球知识产权制度有何潜在影响？ 为此，研究回答了全球知识产权问题如何演变，谁是制定政策的主要行为者，以及新政策的潜在影响。 定性和定量的实证分析方法来解决这些问题。 定性研究被用来追溯美国知识产权的历史经验，展示了国内机构，如国会和利益集团在提升知识产权的全球性问题发挥了关键作用。 定量研究被用来测试知识产权对发展进程的影响，美国和其他国家认为，将通过遵循西方式的知识产权制度来加强这种影响。 这个博士论文研究项目有望大大提高我们对这个有趣而重要的问题的理解。