Development at the WTO

Name: Development at the WTO
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780199600885
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Author: Sonia E Rolland
ISBN: 9780199600885

By Sonia E Rolland

Oxford University Press February 2012

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ISBN-13: 9780199600885
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication: February 2012
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: International ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Analyses the question of the WTO and development from an institutionalist perspective, offering new insights on why the Doha Round has stalled
Provides a thorough analysis of the special and differential treatment of developing states and of these states' capability to participate in WTO decision-making
Presents a range of proposals for a better balance between trade liberalization and the development needs of WTO member states
Seeking to open paths for reconsidering the trade and development relationship at the WTO, this book takes into account both the heritage of the trade regime and its present dynamics. It argues that the institutional processes for creating and implementing trade rules at the WTO and the actual regulatory outcomes are inseparable. A consideration of the development dimension at the WTO must examine both jointly.

It shows that the shortcomings of the Doha Development Round are in part due to the failure to assess trade rules as part of the legal processes and institutions that produced them. This book devotes significant analysis to the systemic impact of the WTO as an institution on developing and least developed members. From a pragmatic perspective, it provides a coherent and systematic analysis of the legal meaning, the implementation, and the adjudication of special and differential treatment rules for developing members. It then evaluates the different regulatory approaches to trade and development from a more theoretical perspective. The book finishes by presenting a range of proposals for a better balance between trade liberalization and the development needs of many WTO members.

Readership: Scholars and postgraduate students of international economic law, WTO law, and development studies; legal advisers and policy-makers working on questions related to the WTO and development.

Introduction

PART 1: Development and its Institutions in International Economic Law: Who Decides what Development Means?

1: The Multiple Meanings of Development

2: The Contribution of International Organizations to Development Policy-Making

PART 2: Framing Development at the GATT and WTO

3: The Trade and Development Relationship during the GATT years and the Genesis of the WTO

4: <"Developing member>" and LDC status at the GATT and WTO: Self-Designation versus the politics of accession

5: From the Uruguay Round to the Doha Round: The rise of developing countries' participation in the WTO

PART 3: Understanding and Contextualizing WTO Development Provisions

6: Special and Differential Treatment in the WTO Agreements: A legal analysis

7: Invoking Development in Dispute Settlement

8: Reconsidering SDT in the global context

9: Institutional processes: What impact on developing members?

PART 4: Rethinking the Trade and Development Relationship at the WTO

10: The Doha Round: Chronicle of a death foretold

11: Strategic challenges to integrating development at the WTO

12: Proposals for reform

Conclusion;

About the Author

Sonia E. Rolland, Associate Professor, Northeastern University School of Law

Sonia Rolland conducts research and teaches at Northeastern University School of Law, Boston (USA). Her work focuses on public international law and trade law, and is informed by regular exchanges with delegates and members of the WTO community. She has practiced law in Washington DC and has clerked at the International Court of Justice (The Hague). She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge (UK), a J.D. degree from the University of Michigan (USA), an M.A. from the Université Paris 10-Nanterre (France) and the `iplôme of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (France).

Reviews

"Developing countries maintain that their right to development is fundamental to today's global governance. But what does it mean? Congratulations to Sonia Rolland who, with this book, successfully meets the challenge of exploring how development is actually operationalized in the WTO." - Gabrielle Marceau Counsellor, Legal Affairs, WTO Secretariat and Professor, Law School, University of Geneva

"Skillfully using an institutional framework of analysis, Development at the World Trade Organization explains the meanings of "development" and the concept of "special and differential treatment"...It [offers] insightful and creative suggestions for a fair balance between free trade and the development needs of poor countries...[T]his book is a clear, cogent, succinct, and persuasive account of whether, how, and the extent to which the WTO helps promote development-veritably, a marvelous contribution, both scholarly and practical, on a topic of global importance." - Raj Bhala, Associate Dean for International and Comparative Law Rice Distinguished Professor, the University of Kansas School of Law .

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