Wto - Crisis and the Governance of Global Trade

Informationen zum Autor Rorden Wilkinson is Professor of Global Political Economy and Head-elect Department of International Relations, University of Sussex, UK. He is author of Multilateralism and the World Trade Organisation (Routledge, 2000), editor of The Global Governance Reader (Routledge, 2005), and co-editor of Global Governance: Critical Perspectives (Routledge, 2002). He also co-edits the Global Institutions series. Klappentext Rorden Wilkinson explores the factors behind the collapse of World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerials - as in Seattle in 1999 and Cancun in 2003 - and asks why such events have not significantly disrupted the development of the multilateral trading system. Zusammenfassung Rorden Wilkinson explores the factors behind the collapse of World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerials – as in Seattle in 1999 and Cancun in 2003 – and asks why such events have not significantly disrupted the development of the multilateral trading system. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The WTO, Crisis and the Governance of Global Trade 2. Forging Multilateral Trade Regulation: The Post-War Settlement and the Rise of the GATT 3. Establishing Asymmetry: Liberalising Trade under the GATT 4. Fashioning the WTO: Formalising Multilateral Trade Regulation 5. Perpetuating Asymmetry: The Collapse of Ministerial Meetings and the Doha Development Agenda 6. Conclusion

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• Authors: Rorden Wilkinson, Rorden (University of Manchester Wilkinson, Wilkinson Rorden
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.08.2006
• EAN: 9780415405539
• ISBN: 978-0-415-40553-9
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Economics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General