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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
New to this edition
- Includes a new preface to the paperback edition addressing recent developments, including the accession of Russia to the WTO
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 WTO's development dimension must examine both jointly.
It shows that the shortcomings of the Doha Development Round are in part due to a 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: Students and scholars 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 Least Developed Country Status at the GATT and WTO: Self-Designation versus the Politics of Accession
5: From the Uruguay Round to the Doha Round: Changing Dynamics in Developing Countries' Participation
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 Special and Differential Treatment 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: Towards Development-Oriented Rules at the WTO: Some Proposals
Conclusion
Sonia Rolland conducts research and teaches at Northeastern University School of Law, Boston. 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. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, a J.D. degree from the University of Michigan, an M.A. from the Université Paris 10-Nanterre (France), and the Diplôme of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.
"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
