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Informationen zum Autor Tomer Broude is a Senior Lecturer with the Faculty of Law and Department of International Relations and Academic Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is an expert in international economic law, particularly WTO and regional trade law, dispute settlement, investment and development. He is the author of the book International Governance in the WTO: Judicial Boundaries and Political Capitulation (2004) and has co-edited several other books, including The Shifting Allocation of Authority in International Law: Considering Sovereignty, Supremacy and Subsidiary (2008, edited with Yuval Shany); Multisourced Equivalent Norms in International Law (2010, edited with Yuval Shany); and Law and Development Perspective on International Trade Law (2011, edited with Won-Mog Choi, Gary Horlick and Y. S. Lee). Marc L. Busch is the Karl F. Landegger Professor of International Business Diplomacy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington DC and an Adjunct Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He is an expert on international trade policy and law and the author of the book Trade Warriors, and articles in the American Journal of Political Science, the American Journal of Sociology, the British Journal of Political Science, the Fordham International Law Journal, International Organization, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the Journal of World Trade, World Politics and World Trade Review. Amelia Porges advises companies, governments and trade associations on how to use WTO law, trade agreements and investment rules to solve complex market access problems. She represents governments and stakeholders in negotiations and litigation in the WTO and free trade agreements, and advises governments on WTO and trade agreement institutions and compliance. Her experience includes guiding US WTO litigation during the first five years of the WTO, at the Office of the US Trade Representative; legal drafting, advice and dispute settlement work in the GATT Secretariat during the Uruguay Round; and advising on tariff and services negotiations, including the original and updated Information Technology Agreement and the GATS. Her recent work focuses on free trade agreement dispute settlement, trade in digital products and services, renewable energy, tariff negotiations, trade disciplines on state-owned enterprises, agricultural subsidies, procurement trade, technical barriers to trade, TPP and TTIP, and she has worked with a wide range of industrial and agricultural sectors. She teaches international trade law at The Johns Hopkins University and has published widely on trade law subjects. Klappentext This book discusses specific problems in international economic relations and the influence of politics on law. Zusammenfassung Lawyers seldom consider the influence of politics on law! whereas political scientists have an on-again! off-again fascination with how the law influences relations among states. This book fills this interdisciplinary gap! through a series of important studies written by leaders in the field on specific problems in international economic relations. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: some observations on the politics of international economic law Tomer Broude, Marc L. Busch and Amelia Porges; Part I. The Politics of Law-Making in International Trade: 2. The politics and indirect effects of asymmetrical bargaining power in free trade agreements Meredith Kolsky Lewis; 3. The politics of linkages in US preferential trade agreements Kimberlee G. Weatherall; 4. The politics of African trade negotiations in the WTO's Doha Round Uche Ewelukwa; 5. The politics of legitimacy in the UNCITRAL working methods Claire R. Kelly; Part II. The Politics of International Investment Treaty-Making: 6. The politics of the European Union's investment treaty-making Marc Bungenberg; 7...
