International Law

The Oxford Handbook on The World Trade Organization

Edited by Amrita Narlikar · Martin Daunton · Robert M. Stern
Oxford University Press August 2014

Specifications

ISBN-13
9780198714774
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication
August 2014
Format
Paperback , 880 pages
Jurisdiction
International ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

  • Brings together leading experts on the WTO
  • Provides an authoritative reference point for students, scholars and practitioners
  • Includes original and cutting-edge research
  • Essential reading for all those working on the institution

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.

Readership: Scholars and students of political science, history, economics, international relations, public policy, law, and business studies.

Table of Contents

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
Part VIII: Ethical Issues
30: Andrew G. Brown and Robert M. Stern: Fairness in the WTO Trading System
31: Drusilla Brown: Labour Standards and Human Rights
32: Meera Fickling and Gary Hufbauer: Trade and the Environment
Part IX: Reform of the WTO and Global Economic Governance
33: Bernard Hoekman: Proposals for Reform: A Synthesis and Assessment
34: Steven Bernstein and Erin Hannah: The WTO and Institutional (In)Coherence
Amrita Narlikar, Martin Daunton, and Robert M. Stern: 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
Part VIII: Ethical Issues
30: Andrew G. Brown and Robert M. Stern: Fairness in the WTO Trading System
31: Drusilla Brown: Labour Standards and Human Rights
32: Meera Fickling and Gary Hufbauer: Trade and the Environment
Part IX: Reform of the WTO and Global Economic Governance
33: Bernard Hoekman: Proposals for Reform: A Synthesis and Assessment
34: Steven Bernstein and Erin Hannah: The WTO and Institutional (In)Coherence

About the Author

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.

 

Contributors: 
Amrita Narlikar, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge.
Martin Daunton, Professor of Economic History in the University of Cambridge and Master of Trinity Hall.
Robert M. Stern, Visiting Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at University of California, Berkeley.
Robert E. Baldwin, Hilldale Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Judith Goldstein, Janet M. Peck Professor in International Communication and the Kaye University
Richard Toye, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Exeter
Thomas Zeiler, Professor, Deprtment of History, University of Colorado at Boulder
Ernest Preeg, Adjunct Fellow, Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
Richard Blackhurst, Adjunct Professor of International Economics, Tufts University. 
Marion Jansen, senior specialist for trade and employment in the Employment Sector of the International Labor Office.
Patrick Messerlin, Professor of Economics, and Director, Groupe d'Economie Mondiale (GEM), Sciences Po, Paris
Todd Allee, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Brendan Vickers, Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa
Shishir Priyadarshi, Director of the World Trade Organisation
Taufiqur Rahman, Economic Affairs Officer, Development Division, WTO
Jens Steffek, Professor of Transnational Governance, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Steven McGuire, Professor of Management Director, Centre for International Business and Public Policy, Aberystwyth University 
Rudolf Adlung, Counsellor, Trade in Services Division, WTO
Keith Maskus, Associate Dean for Social Sciences, and Professor of Economics, University of Colorado, Boulder.
Michael Finger, Professor, Former Lead Economist and Chief, Trade Policy Research Group, World Bank
Robert Howse, Lloyd C. Nelson Professor of International Law, New York University School of Law
Sam Laird, Chief, Research Section, Trade Analysis Branch, Division for International Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities, UNCTAD
Raymundo Valdès, WTO
Manfred Elsig, Assistant Professor in International Relations at the WTI
Joost Pauwelyn, Professor of International Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
(IHEID), Geneva
Thoms Bernhauer, Professor of Political Science at ETH Zurich
Mitsuo Matsushita, Professor Emeritus at Tokyo University and a former member of the WTO Appellate Body.
Gregory Shaffer, Melvin C. Steen Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
Joel Trachtman, Professor of International Law, Tufts University 
Alan O. Sykes, Directs Masters Program in International Economic Law, Business and Policy, Stanford University 
Cedric Dupont, Professor of International Relations at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
Manfred Elsig, Assistant Professor at the World Trade Institute, University of Bern
Thomas Cottier, Managing Director of the World Trade Institute and the Institute of European and International Economic Law, Professor of European and International Economic Law, University of Bern
Richard Baldwin, Professor of International Economics, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
Tim Josling, Professor, Emeritus, Food Research Institute, Stanford University 
Andrew G. Brown, Wellfleet Chamber of Commerce 
Drusilla Brown, Associate Professor of Economics and Director of Tufts International Relations Program, Tufts University 
Meera Fickling, Research Analyst, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington DC
Gary Hufbauer, Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics; Institute for International Economics
Bernard Hoekman, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
Steven Bernstein, Director of the MGA, an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
Erin Hannah, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

Reviews

"...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

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