Wto Accessions and Trade Multilateralism - Case Studies and Lessons From the Wto At Twenty

This volume of essays offers critical readings on how WTO accession negotiations have expanded the reach of the multilateral trading system not only geographically but also conceptually, clarifying disciplines and pointing the way to their further strengthening in future negotiations. Members who have acceded since the WTO was established now account for 20 percent of total WTO membership. In the age of globalization there is an increased need for a universal system of trade rules. Accession negotiations have been used by governments as an instrument for domestic reforms, and one lesson from the accession process is that there are contexts that lead multilateral trade negotiations to successful outcomes even in the complex and multipolar twenty-first-century economic environment.

List of contents

Part I. WTO Accessions, the Trading System and the Global Economy; Part II. Overview; Part III. Members' Perspectives on Accession Negotiations; Part III.I. Original Members; Part III.I. Original Members; Part III.II. Article XII Members; Part IV. Working Party Chairpersons' Perspectives on Accession Negotiations; Part V. Salient Features in WTO Accession Protocols; Part VI. Conclusion.

About the author

Uri Dadush is Senior Associate in the International Economics Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC. He is also President and Founder of Economic Policy International, LLC. He was formerly Director of Trade at the World Bank, a department he founded in the run-up to the WTO Doha Ministerial Conference.Chiedu Osakwe is Director of the WTO Accessions Division, having acted as director of various divisions within the WTO Secretariat for many years.

Summary

This volume of essays offers critical readings on how WTO accession negotiations have expanded the reach of the multilateral trading system not only geographically but also conceptually, and how these negotiations have been used by governments as an instrument for domestic reforms.

Product details

• Authors: Uri Dadush, Uri (Carnegie Endowment for International Dadush, Uri Osakwe Dadush, Chiedu Osakwe, World Trade Organization
• Assisted by: Uri Dadush (Editor), Uri (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Dadush (Editor), Uri B. Dadush (Editor), Dadush Uri (Editor), Chiedu Osakwe (Editor), Osakwe Chiedu (Editor), World Trade Organization (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.09.2015
• EAN: 9781107093362
• ISBN: 978-1-107-09336-2
• No. of pages: 1010
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Commercial / International Trade, trade agreements, International economic & trade law, International trade and commerce, Public international law: economic and trade