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Informationen zum Autor Abhijit Das is an international trade expert with two and a half decades of experience in international trade negotiations and WTO issues in various capacities, including five years in trade policy making and trade negotiations in the Government of India and twelve years as the Professor and Head, Centre for WTO Studies, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi. His work has played an influential role in defining the terms of debate on many issues including agriculture, government procurement, and the digital economy. He has published extensively on the economic and legal aspects of the WTO in reputed national and peer-reviewed international journals and has co-edited several books on WTO and international trade, including WTO Dispute Settlement at Twenty: Insiders' Reflections on India's Participation (Springer), Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: A Framework for Future Trade Rules? (Sage), and Twenty Years of India's Trade Liberalisation: Experiences and Lessons (UN). Klappentext Based on insiders' accounts, the book provides a comprehensive discussion of the strategies used by some developing countries in countering asymmetric power dynamics at the negotiating table and securing their objectives in a few exceptional episodes in World Trade Organiztion (WTO) negotiations, including food security and agriculture issues. Zusammenfassung Based on insiders' accounts, the book provides a comprehensive discussion of the strategies used by some developing countries in countering asymmetric power dynamics at the negotiating table and securing their objectives in a few exceptional episodes in World Trade Organiztion (WTO) negotiations, including food security and agriculture issues. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Studying Negotiating Strategies: An Introduction 2: Negotiation: Definition, Types, and Stages 3: Multilateral Trading System: Origin, Establishment, and Evolution 4: Strategies Used by Developed Countries Away from the Negotiating Table 5: Strategies Used by Developed Countries at the Negotiating Table 6: Odds in GATT and WTO Negotiations Stacked Against Developing Countries 7: Overcoming Odds at the Negotiating Table: Removing Three Singapore Issues from the Negotiating Agenda 8: Davids Join Hands to Take on Goliath in the Battle on Agriculture 9: Securing Rules to Fight Hunger and Poverty 10: Concluding Thoughts on Negotiating Strategies ...