Researchers mostly of business and trade, but some in defense and even criminology survey free trade agreements between individual states or as part of a multi-party arrangement, and the effect they have had on commerce. Their topics include Brazilian trade policy and the US, a history of trade relations between Canada and the US, a quantitative assessment of the inter-war Australian trade policies using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) approach, Austrian economic policy challenges of gains from trade, skill distribution and systems of cities in a north-south trade model, a progress report on the Middle East Free Trade Area, and regional trade blocks in a non-cooperative network. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)