The Oxford handbook on the World Trade Organization / Amrita Narlikar, Martin Daunton, Robert M. Stern.

Author
Narlikar, Amrita [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Description
1 online resource (xxvii, 849 p.)

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Series
Oxford Handbooks in Politics & International Relations [More in this series]
Summary note
This handbook provides a holistic understanding of what the World Trade Organization does, how it goes about fulfilling its tasks, its achievements and problems, and how it might contend with some critical challenges.
Notes
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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English
Contents
  • Machine generated contents note:
  • Introduction, Amrita Narlikar, Martin Daunton, and Robert M. Stern
  • Part I: Theory of Multilateral Trade Liberalization
  • 1. The Case for a Multilateral Trade Organization, Robert E. Baldwin
  • 2. The Inconsistent Quartet: Free Trade Versus Competing Goals, Martin Daunton
  • 3. Trade Liberalization and Domestic Politics, Judith Goldstein
  • Part II: Institutional Evolution: Building up the World Trade Organization
  • 4. International Trade Organization, Richard Toye
  • 5. The expanding mandate of the GATT: The First Seven Rounds, Thomas Zeiler
  • 6. Uruguay Round Negotiations and the Creation of the WTO, Ernest Preeg
  • Part III: The Process Behind the Workings of the WTO
  • 7. The Role of the Director-General and the Secretariat, Richard Blackhurst
  • 8. Defining the Borders of the WTO Agenda, Marion Jansen
  • 9. Collective Agency, Systemic Consequences: Bargaining Coalitions in the WTO, Amrita Narlikar
  • Part IV: Agency in the WTO
  • 10. The Influence of the EU in the World Trade System, Patrick Messerlin
  • 11. The Role of the US : A Multi-level explanation for Decreased Support over Time, Todd Allee
  • 12. The Role of the B(R)ICS: System supporters or Change agents in the WTO?, Brendan Vickers
  • 13. Least Developed Countries: Growing Voice, Shishir Priyadarshi and Taufiqur Rahman
  • 14. Awkward Partners: NGOs and Social Movements in the WTO, Jens Steffek
  • 15. What happened to the Influence of Bussines? Corporations and Organised Labour in the WTO, Steven McGuire
  • Part V: The Substance of the Agreements
  • 16. Trade in Manufactures and Agricultural Products: The Dangerous Link? (Helen Coskeran, Dan Kim, Amrita Narlikar)
  • 17. Trade in Services in the WTO: From Marrakech (1994) to Doha (2001) to..., Rudolf Adlung
  • 18. Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs), Keith Maskus
  • 19. Rules: Anti-dumping, Countervailing Duties, and Safeguards, Michael Finger
  • 20. Regulatory Measures: SPS, TBT, Customs Valuation, Robert Howse
  • Part VI: Implementation and Enforcement
  • 21. Trade Policy Review Mechanism, Sam Laird and Raymundo Valdes
  • 22. Dispute Settlement Mechanism - Analysis and Problems, Manfred Elsig, Joost Pauwelyn and Thoms Bernhauer
  • 23. DSM - The Appellate Body - Assessment and Problems, Mitsuo Matsushita
  • 24. Interpretation and Institutional Choice at the WTO, Gregory Shaffer and Joel Trachtman
  • 25. The DSM: Ensuring Compliance?, Alan O. Sykes
  • Part VII: Challenges to the System
  • 26. Persistent Deadlock at Doha, Cedric Dupont and Manfred Elsig
  • 27. The Role of Domestic Courts in the Implementation of WTO Law: The Political Economy of Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances, Thomas Cottier
  • 28. Preferential Trading Arrangements, Richard Baldwin
  • 29. New Issues in Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources, Tim Josling
  • Part VIII: Ethical Issues
  • 30. Fairness in the WTO Trading System, Andrew G. Brown and Robert M. Stern
  • 31. Labour Standards and Human Rights, Drusilla Brown
  • 32. Trade and the Environment, Meera Fickling and Gary Hufbauer
  • Part IX: Reform of the WTO and Global Economic Governance
  • 33. Proposals for Reform: A Synthesis and Assessment, Bernard Hoekman
  • 34. The WTO and Institutional (In)Coherence, Steven Bernstein and Erin Hannah.
Other title(s)
World Trade Organization
ISBN
  • 9780191628443
  • 0191628441
  • 9780191750557
  • 0191750557
OCLC
823579165
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