Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization

The Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization provides an authoritative and cutting-edge account of the World Trade Organization. Its purpose is to provide a holistic understanding of what the WTO does, how it goes about fulfilling its tasks, its achievements and problems, and how it might contend with some critical challenges. The Handbook benefits from an interdisciplinary approach. The editorial team comprises a transatlantic partnership between a political scientist, a historian, and an economist. The distinguished and international team of contributors to the volume includes leading political scientists, historians, economists, lawyers, and practitioners working in the area of multilateral trade. All the chapters present original and state-of-the-art research material. They critically engage with existing academic and policy debates, and also contribute to the evolution of the field by setting the agenda for current and future WTO studies.The Handbook is aimed at research institutions, university academics, post-graduate students, and final-year undergraduates working in the areas of international organization, trade policy and negotiations, global economic governance, and economic diplomacy. As such, it should find an enthusiastic readership amongst students and scholars in History, Economics, Political Science, International Relations, Public Policy, and Law. Equally important, the book should have direct relevance for diplomats, international bureaucrats, government officials, and other policy-makers and practitioners in the area of trade and economic governance.

Sommario

• Introduction


• Part I: Theory of Multilateral Trade Liberalization


• 1: Robert E. Baldwin: The Case for a Multilateral Trade Organization


• 2: Martin Daunton: The Inconsistent Quartet: Free Trade Versus Competing Goals


• 3: Judith Goldstein: Trade Liberalization and Domestic Politics


• Part II: Institutional Evolution: Building up the World Trade Organization


• 4: Richard Toye: International Trade Organization


• 5: Thomas Zeiler: The expanding mandate of the GATT: The First Seven Rounds


• 6: Ernest Preeg: Uruguay Round Negotiations and the Creation of the WTO


• Part III: The Process Behind the Workings of the WTO


• 7: Richard Blackhurst: The Role of the Director-General and the Secretariat


• 8: Marion Jansen: Defining the Borders of the WTO Agenda


• 9: Amrita Narlikar: Collective Agency, Systemic Consequences: Bargaining Coalitions in the WTO


• Part IV: Agency in the WTO


• 10: Patrick Messerlin: The Influence of the EU in the World Trade System


• 11: Todd Allee: The Role of the US : A Multi-level explanation for Decreased Support over Time


• 12: Brendan Vickers: The Role of the B(R)ICS: System supporters or Change agents in the WTO?


• 13: Shishir Priyadarshi and Taufiqur Rahman: Least Developed Countries: Growing Voice


• 14: Jens Steffek: Awkward Partners: NGOs and Social Movements in the WTO


• 15: Steven McGuire: What happened to the Influence of Bussines? Corporations and Organised Labour in the WTO


• Part V: The Substance of the Agreements


• 16: Trade in Manufactures and Agricultural Products: The Dangerous Link? (Helen Coskeran, Dan Kim, Amrita Narlikar)


• 17: Rudolf Adlung: Trade in Services in the WTO: From Marrakech (1994) to Doha (2001) to...


• 18: Keith Maskus: Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs)


• 19: Michael Finger: Rules: Anti-dumping, Countervailing Duties, and Safeguards


• 20: Robert Howse: Regulatory Measures: SPS, TBT, Customs Valuation


• Part VI: Implementation and Enforcement


• 21: Sam Laird and Raymundo Valdès: Trade Policy Review Mechanism


• 22: Thomas Bernauer, Manfred Elsig, and Joost Pauwelyn: Dispute Settlement Mechanism - Analysis and Problems


• 23: Mitsuo Matsushita: DSM - The Appellate Body - Assessment and Problems


• 24: Gregory Shaffer and Joel Trachtman: Interpretation and Institutional Choice at the WTO


• 25: Alan O. Sykes: The DSM: Ensuring Compliance?


• Part VII: Challenges to the System


• 26: Manfred Elsig and Cedric Dupont: Persistent Deadlock at Doha


• 27: Thomas Cottier: The Role of Domestic Courts in the Implementation of WTO Law: The Political Economy of Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances


• 28: Richard Baldwin: Preferential Trading Arrangements


• 29: Tim Josling: New Issues in Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources



• Info autore

  Dr Amrita Narlikar is a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge. Her most recent books included New Powers: How to Become One and How to Manage Them, New York: Columbia University Press, London: Hurst, 2010 and (ed) Deadlocks in Multilateral Negotiations: Causes and Solutions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. She is the Director of Centre for Rising Powers, and University Senior Lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge.
  
  Professor Martin Daunton works on the history of economic and social policy, most recently with respect to taxation, and is currently completing a book on the economic government of the world since the Second World War. He is Professor of Economic History in the University of Cambridge and Master of Trinity Hall.
  
  Robert M. Stern has published numerous articles and books over the years in international trade and finance. His current research focuses on issues of WTO governance and related social policies. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan and currently a Visiting Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC-Berkeley.

  Riassunto

  The Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization provides an authoritative and cutting-edge account of the World Trade Organization. Its purpose is to provide a holistic understanding of what the WTO does, how it goes about fulfilling its tasks, its achievements and problems, and how it might contend with some critical challenges. The Handbook benefits from an interdisciplinary approach. The editorial team comprises a transatlantic partnership between a political scientist, a historian, and an economist. The distinguished and international team of contributors to the volume includes leading political scientists, historians, economists, lawyers, and practitioners working in the area of multilateral trade. All the chapters present original and state-of-the-art research material. They critically engage with existing academic and policy debates, and also contribute to the evolution of the field by setting the agenda for current and future WTO studies.The Handbook is aimed at research institutions, university academics, post-graduate students, and final-year undergraduates working in the areas of international organization, trade policy and negotiations, global economic governance, and economic diplomacy. As such, it should find an enthusiastic readership amongst students and scholars in History, Economics, Political Science, International Relations, Public Policy, and Law. Equally important, the book should have direct relevance for diplomats, international bureaucrats, government officials, and other policy-makers and practitioners in the area of trade and economic governance.

  Testo aggiuntivo

  ...this Handbook should be regarded as a feat of great editorship, which is especially remarkable given the pluralistic array of contributors-both in disciplinary and geographic terms.

  Relazione

  ...this Handbook should be regarded as a feat of great editorship, which is especially remarkable given the pluralistic array of contributors-both in disciplinary and geographic terms. Agustin Jose Menendez, University of Leon and University of Oslo, Political Studies Review

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Amrita (Reader in International Politica Narlikar, Amrita Daunton Narlikar
• Con la collaborazione di: Martin Daunton (Editore), Daunton Martin (Editore), Amrita Narlikar (Editore), Narlikar Amrita (Editore), Robert M. Stern (Editore), Stern Robert M. (Editore)
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.06.2014
• EAN: 9780198714774
• ISBN: 978-0-19-871477-4
• Pagine: 880
• Serie: Oxford Handbooks in Politics and International Relations; Oxford Handbooks; Oxford Handbooks in Politics & International Relations
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Economia internazionale; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Commercial / International Trade, International Relations, trade agreements, International economic & trade law, International trade and commerce, Public international law: economic and trade