Governing the World Trade Organization (eBook, PDF)

Past, Present and Beyond Doha
Redaktion: Cottier, Thomas

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Like many other international organizations, the World Trade Organization stands at a crossroads. There is an obvious imbalance between the organization's dispute settlement arm and its negotiation platform. While its current rules, supported by a strong dispute settlement system, have provided some buffering against the negative effects of the financial crises, its negotiation machinery has not produced any substantial outcomes since the late 1990s. It has become obvious that the old way of doing business does not work any more and fresh ideas about governing the organization are needed. Based on rigorous scholarship, this volume of essays offers critical readings on the functioning of the system and provides policy-relevant ideas that go beyond incremental redesign but avoid the trap of romantic scenarios.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139142762
• Artikelnr.: 38277220

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Thomas Cottier and Manfred Elsig; 2. The origins and back
to the future: a conversation with Ambassador Julio Lacarte; 3. After
globalization? WTO reform and the new global political economy Tony McGrew;
4. Internal measures in the multilateral trading system: where are the
borders of the WTO agenda? Marion Jansen; 5. Legitimising global economic
governance through transnational parliamentarisation: how far have we come?
How much further must we go? Markus Krajewski; 6. Adapting to new power
balances: institutional reform in the WTO Amrita Narlikar; 7. Delegation
chains, agenda control, and political mobilisation: how the EU Commission
tries to affect domestic mobilisation on the DDA Bart Kerremans; 8.
Developing countries and monitoring WTO commitments in response to the
global economic crisis Chad Bown; 9. Exploring the limits of institutional
coherence in trade and development Kent Jones; 10. The WTO as a 'living
instrument': the contribution of consensus decision-making and informality
to institutional norms and practices Mary Footer; 11. Crisis situations and
consensus seeking: adaptive decision making in the FAO and applying its
lessons to the reform of the WTO Robert Kissack; 12. A post-Montesquieu
analysis of the WTO Steve Charnovitz; 13. Reforming the WTO: the
decision-making triangle revisited Manfred Elsig and Thomas Cottier; 14.
Barriers to WTO reform: intellectual narrowness and the production of
path-dependent thinking Rorden Wilkinson.