Simon A. B. Schropp

Trade Policy Flexibility and Enforcement in the WTO

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This critical analysis of contractual escape and punishment in the WTO proposes a politically realistic and systemically viable reform agenda.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 702g
• ISBN-13: 9780521761208
• ISBN-10: 0521761204
• Artikelnr.: 26152253

Autorenporträt

Simon Schropp is an International Trade Policy Analyst for Sidley Austin LLP, a leading law firm in international trade law and WTO litigation. He has previously worked for the WTO Secretariat and as a research fellow investigating legal and economic issues of the WTO.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: trade policy flexibility in the WTO - vice or virtue?;
Part I. An Introduction to Incomplete Contracting: 2. Complete contracts,
and the contracting ideal; 3. Incomplete contracting, and the essence of
flexibility; Part II. Theorizing about the WTO as an Incomplete Contract:
4. Adding context: the WTO as an incomplete contract; 5. Analyzing the
system of non-performance in the WTO; Part III. Flexibility and Enforcement
in the WTO: Towards an Agenda for Reform: 6. Theorizing about the 'WTO' as
an efficient 'breach' contract; 7. Towards an efficient 'breach' contract:
an agenda for reform.