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Zusatztext ..a text that offers a coherent and thoughtful narrative about the ongoing challenge of developing countries within the WTO...... a commendable contribution to the literature on development and the WTO.What Alessandrini has done in this book is a commendable job of developing, explaining, and defending a historical narrative of multilateral trading system that tends to devalue and (at least partially) disenfranchise developing countries. It is well researched and well thought, and it usefully places its subject in historical perspective. The book also offers a useful point of departure for further scholarship along various lines. Informationen zum Autor Donatella Alessandrini is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent. Klappentext This book explores the way in which 'development' has functioned within the multilateral trade regime since de-colonization. In particular! it investigates the shift from early approaches to development under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) to current approaches to development under the World Trade Organization (WTO). The book argues that a focus on the creation and transformation of a scientific apparatus that links forms of knowledge about the so-called Third World with forms of power and intervention is crucial for understanding the six decades-long development enterprise of both the GATT and the WTO. The book is both topical and necessary given the emphasis on the current round of negotiations of the WTO. The Doha 'Development' Round has been premised on two assumptions. Firstly! that the international community has undertaken an unprecedented effort to address the imbalances of the multilateral trading regime with respect to the position of its developing country Zusammenfassung This book explores the way in which 'development' has functioned within the multilateral trade regime since de-colonisation. Inhaltsverzeichnis INTRODUCTION – THE FAILURE AND THE PROMISE OF THE MULTILATERAL TRADING REGIME I The 'Science of Development' and 'Capitalist Imperialism' II Development as a 'Discourse' and Development as a 'Trap' III Outline of the Chapters 1 THE BRETTON WOODS CONFERENCE: TRADE AND THE 'CIVILISING MISSION' IN THE POSTWAR INTERNATIONAL TRADING REGIME I The Mandate System and 'the Science of Development' A Freedom of Transit and Equitable Treatment: The First Regulatory Attempt at a World Trade Order B . . . and the Extension of Market Imperatives II The Bretton Woods Conference and the Postwar International Economic Order A Grounding 'Non-Discrimination' and 'Equal Treatment' in Trade Relations B The Draft Charter and the London Conference: Of Rules and Exceptions C The Free-Trade Contradictions of the Charter: Structuring the International Division of Labour D The Investment Provisions: Protecting Capital Abroad E The Outcome of the ITO Negotiations III The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) Conclusions 2 THE 'SCIENCE OF DEVELOPMENT' AND THE GATT NORM I The Emergence of the Development Enterprise A The 'Professionalisation' and 'Institutionalisation' of Development B Development Economics' 'Growth' and 'Progress' C Development Economics' Normative Assumptions D Reformist Dependency Theories and the Development Matrix: The Structuralist School of Thought II The GATT Development Mission A The GATT First Review Session: Positing Developing Countries' Failure B The Haberler Report and Committee III: Tracing Discrimination C The GATT Part IV: Discharging Responsibility D Enabling Non-Reciprocity E A'Differential and More Favourable Treatment'? F Assessing the GATT's Flexibility Conclusions 3 THE NEO-LIBERAL TRANSFORMATION OF DEVELOPMENT THINKING AND THE RENEWED MISSION OF THE MULTILATERAL TRADING REGIMEI The Neo-Liberal Conversion of Development Thinking A Rational Choice-Based Approach B . . . and Failing Institutional Arrangements C Outward-Oriented ...
