The World Trade Organization
Edited by Debra Steger
To Be Published January 15th 2014 by Routledge – 2,000 pages
Description
With a membership of 149 countries, the World Trade Organization (WTO) is the international organization with responsibility for the global rules of trade between nations. Its stated principal function is to ensure that trade flows as smoothly, predictably, and freely as possible. Although established little more than ten years ago, the agreements negotiated under its auspices and, indeed, its very existence have been the source of tremendous controversy and debate, as well as violent demonstrations.
Edited by a leading scholar in the field, and former Director of the Appellate Body Secretariat of the WTO, this new Routledge collection brings together in five volumes the very best scholarship on the WTO from economists, academic lawyers, and other thinkers to examine its history (including its origins in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade). The set also makes available cutting-edge research about the fundamental principles on which the organization is based and explores the implications of the WTO’s policy and practice for domestic regulation and the sovereignty of individual states. The final two volumes collect work on the role of the WTO in dispute settlement and on the legitimacy and governance of the organization.
With an introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, World Trade Organization is an essential collection destined to be valued by scholars, students, and practitioners as a vital research resource.
Contents
Volume I: The Origins and Mandate of the WTO
1. Robert E. Baldwin, ‘Key Challenges Facing the WTO’, in Mike Moore (ed.), Doha and Beyond: The Future of the Multilateral Trading System (Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 46–67.
2. Steve Charnovitz, ‘Triangulating the World Trade Organization’, American Journal of International Law, 2002, 96, 1, 28–55.
3. Paul Demaret, ‘The Metamorphoses of the GATT: From the Havana Charter to the World Trade Organization’, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, 1996, 34, 123–71.
4. J. Michael Finger, ‘Developing Countries in the WTO System: Applying Robert Hudec’s Analysis to the Doha Round’, The World Economy, 2008, 31, 7, 887–904.
5. Jane Ford, ‘A Social Theory of Trade Regime Change: GATT to WTO’, International Studies Review, 2002, 4, 3, 115–38.
6. Richard N. Gardner, ‘The Bretton Woods–GATT System after Sixty–Five Years: A Balance Sheet of Success and Failure’, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, 2008, 47, 1, 31–71.
7. John H. Jackson, ‘The Evolution of the World Trading System: The Legal and Institutional Context’, in Daniel Bethlehem et al. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of International Trade Law (Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 30–53.
8. Pieter Jan Kuijper, ‘WTO Institutional Aspects’, in Daniel Bethlehem et al. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of International Trade Law (Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 79–128.
9. Joost Pauwelyn, ‘The Transformation of World Trade’, Michigan Law Review, 2005, 104, 1, 1–65.
10. Ernest Preeg, ‘The Uruguay Round Negotiations and the Creation of the WTO’, in Amrita Narlikar, Martin Daunton, and Robert M. Stern (eds.), The Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization (Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 122–40.
11. Debra P. Steger, ‘The World Trade Organization: A New Constitution for the World Trading System’, in Marco Bronckers and Reinhard Quick (eds.), New Directions in International Economic Law: Essays in Honour of John H. Jackson (Kluwer International, 2000), pp. 135–53.
12. Richard H. Steinberg, ‘In the Shadow of Law or Power? Consensus-Based Bargaining and Outcomes in the GATT/WTO’, International Organization, 2002, 56, 2, 339–74.
Volume II: The Fundamental Principles
2.1. General
13. Kyle Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger, ‘The World Trade Organization: Theory and Practice’, Annual Review of Economics, 2010, 2, 223–56.
14. Robert Howse, ‘Democracy, Science, and Free Trade: Risk Regulation on Trial at the World Trade Organization’, Michigan Law Review, 2000, 98, 7, 2329–57.
15. Donald H. Regan, ‘What Are Trade Agreements For? Two Conflicting Stories Told By Economists, with a Lesson for Lawyers’, Journal of International Economic Law, 2006, 9, 4, 951–88.
16. Arvind Subramanian and Shang-Jin Wei, ‘The WTO Promotes Trade, Strongly But Unevenly’, Journal of International Economics, 2007, 72, 1, 151–75.
2.2. Like Products
17. Won Mog Choi, ‘Overcoming the "Aim and Effect" Theory: Interpretation of the "Like Product" in GATT Article III’, UC Davis Journal of International Law & Policy, 2002, 8, 107–31.
18. Robert E. Hudec, ‘GATT/WTO Constraints on National Regulation: Requiem for an "Aims and Effects" Test’, International Lawyer, 1998, 32, 619–49.
2.3. Non-Discrimination
19. William J. Davey and Joost Pauwelyn, ‘MFN Unconditionality: A Legal Analysis of the Concept in View of its Evolution in the GATT/WTO Jurisprudence with Particular Reference to the Issue of "Like Product"’, in Thomas Cottier, Petros C. Mavroidis, and Patrick Blatter (eds.), Regulatory Barriers and the Principle of Non-discrimination in World Trade Law: Past, Present and Future (University of Michigan Press, 2000), pp. 13–50.
20. Henrik Horn, ‘National Treatment in the GATT’, American Economic Review, 2006, 96, 1, 394–404.
21. Henrik Horn and Petros C. Mavroidis, ‘Economic and Legal Aspects of the Most-Favored-Nation Clause’, European Journal of Political Economy, 2001, 17, 233–79.
22. Robert W. Staiger and Alan O. Sykes, ‘International Trade, National Treatment, and Domestic Regulation’, Journal of Legal Studies, 2011, 40, 1, 149–203.
Volume III: Implications for Domestic Regulation
23. Steve Charnovitz, ‘The WTO’s Environmental Progress’, Journal of International Economic Law, 2007, 10, 3, 685–706.
24. Sungjoon Cho, ‘Beyond Rationality: A Sociological Construction of the World Trade Organization’, Virginia Journal of International Law, 2012, 52, 2, 321–54.
25. Michael Ming Du, ‘The Rise of National Regulatory Autonomy in the GATT/WTO Regime’, Journal of International Economic Law, 2011, 14, 3, 639–75.
26. Bernard Hoekman, ‘Operationalizing the Concept of Policy Space in the WTO: Beyond Special and Differential Treatment’, Journal of International Economic Law, 2005, 8, 2, 405–24.
27. Robert Howse and Kalypso Nicolaidis, ‘Enhancing WTO Legitimacy: Constitutionalization or Global Subsidiarity?’, Governance, 2003, 16, 1, 73–94.
28. Andrew Lang and Joanne Scott, ‘The Hidden World of WTO Governance’, European Journal of International Law, 2009, 20, 3, 575–614.
29. Andrew T. F. Lang, ‘Reflecting on "Linkage": Cognitive and Institutional Change in the International Trading System’, Modern Law Review, 2007, 70, 4, 523–49.
30. Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, ‘Multilevel Judicial Governance of International Trade Requires a Common Conception of Rule of Law and Justice’, Journal of International Economic Law, 2007, 10, 3, 529–51.
31. Alvaro Santos, ‘Carving Out Policy Autonomy for Developing Countries in the World Trade Organization: The Experience of Brazil & Mexico’, Virginia Journal of International Law, 2012, 52, 3, 551–632.
32. Gregory Shaffer and Joel Trachtman, ‘Interpretation and Institutional Choice at the WTO’, Virginia Journal of International Law, 2011, 52, 1, 103–53.
33. Alan O. Sykes, ‘Subsidies and Countervailing Measures’, in Patrick F. J. Macrory, Arthur E. Appleton, and Michael G. Plummer (eds.), The World Trade Organization: Legal, Economic and Political Analysis, Vol. II (Springer, 2005), pp. 83–107.
Volume IV: The Role of Dispute Settlement
4.1. Overview
34. José E. Alvarez, ‘The Factors Driving and Constraining the Incorporation of International Law in WTO’, in Merit E. Janow, Victoria Donaldson, and Alan Yanovich (eds.), The WTO: Governance, Dispute Settlement & Developing Countries (Juris Publishing, 2008), pp. 611–34.
35. Thomas Bernauer, Manfred Elsig, and Joost Pauwelyn, ‘Dispute Settlement Mechanism: Analysis and Problems’, in Amrita Narlikar, Martin Daunton, and Robert M. Stern (eds.), The Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization (Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 485–506.
36. William J. Davey, ‘The WTO Dispute Settlement System: The First Ten Years’, Journal of International Economic Law, 2005, 8, 1, 17–50.
37. John H. Jackson, ‘The Case of the World Trade Organization’, International Affairs, 2008, 84, 3, 437–54.
38. Amelia Porges, ‘Settling WTO Disputes: What Do Litigation Models Tell Us?’, Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, 2003, 19, 1, 141–84.
39. Debra P. Steger, ‘The Rule of Law or the Rule of Lawyers?’, Journal of World Investment, 2002, 3, 5, 769–92.
40. J. H. H. Weiler, ‘The Rule of Lawyers and the Ethos of Diplomacy: Reflections on the Internal and External Legitimacy of WTO Dispute Settlement’, Journal of World Trade, 2001, 35, 2, 191–207.
4.2. The Panel Process
41. William J. Davey, ‘Expediting the Panel Process in WTO Dispute Settlement’, in Merit E. Janow, Victoria Donaldson, and Alan Yanovich (eds.), The WTO: Governance, Dispute Settlement & Developing Countries (Juris Publishing, 2008), pp. 409–40.
4.3. The Appellate Body
42. Claus-Dieter Ehlermann, ‘Reflections on the Appellate Body of the WTO’, Journal of International Economic Law, 2003, 6, 3, 695–708.
43. Peter Van den Bossche, ‘From Afterthought to Centrepiece: The WTO Appellate Body and its Rise to Prominence in the World Trading System’, in Giorgio Sacerdoti, Alan Yanovich, and Jan Bohanes (eds.), The WTO at Ten: The Contribution of the Dispute Settlement System (Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 289–325.
4.4. Compliance and Remedies
44. Marco Bronckers and Naboth van den Broek, ‘Financial Compensation in the WTO: Improving the Remedies of WTO Dispute Settlement’, Journal of International Economic Law, 2005, 8, 1, 101–26.
45. William J. Davey, ‘Compliance Problems in WTO Dispute Settlement’, Cornell International Law Journal, 2009, 42, 1, 119–28.
46. John H. Jackson, ‘International Law Status of WTO Dispute Settlement Reports: Obligation to Comply or Option to "Buy Out"?’, American Journal of International Law, 2004, 98, 1, 109–25.
47. Warren F. Schwartz and Alan O. Sykes, ‘The Economic Structure of Renegotiation and Dispute Resolution in the World Trade Organization’, Journal of Legal Studies, 2002, 31, 1–2, S179–204.
48. Joel P. Trachtman, ‘The WTO Cathedral’, Stanford Journal of International Law, 2007, 43, 127–67.
4.5. The Future
49. Donald McRae, ‘What is the Future of WTO Dispute Settlement?’, Journal of International Economic Law, 2004, 7, 1, 3–21.
Volume V: The Future of the WTO
50. Richard E. Baldwin, ‘Multilateralising Regionalism: Spaghetti Bowls as Building Blocs on the Path to Global Free Trade’, World Economy, 2006, 29, 11, 1451–512.
51. Thomas Cottier, ‘Preparing for Structural Reform in the WTO’, Journal of International Economic Law, 2007, 10, 3, 497–508.
52. Claus-Dieter Ehlermann and Lothar Ehring, ‘Decision-Making in the World Trade Organization: Is the Consensus Practice of the World Trade Organization Adequate for Making, Revising and Implementing Rules on International Trade?’, Journal of International Economic Law, 2005, 8, 1, 51–75.
53. Bernard Hoekman, ‘Proposals for WTO Reform: A Synthesis and Assessment’, Minnesota Journal of International Law, 2011, 20, 324–64.
54. Faizel Ismail, ‘Reforming the World Trade Organization’, World Economics, 2009, 10, 4, 109–46.
55. Anne O. Krueger, ‘The Clash Between Economics and Politics in the World Trade Organization’, Journal of International Trade and Diplomacy, 2009, 3, 1, 33–62.
56. Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian, Multilateralism Beyond Doha (Working Paper No. WP08-8, Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2008).
57. Amrita Narlikar, ‘New Powers in the Club: The Challenges of Global Trade Governance’, International Affairs, 2010, 86, 3, 717–28.
58. Chiedu Osakwe, ‘Developing Countries and GATT/WTO Rules: Dynamic Transformations in Trade Policy Behavior and Performance’, Minnesota Journal of International Law, 2011, 20, 2, 365–436.
59. Sylvia Ostry, ‘The World Trading System: In Dire Need of Reform’, Temple International & Comparative Law Journal, 2003, 17, 1, 109–24.
60. Joost Pauwelyn, ‘New Trade Politics for the 21st Century’, Journal of International Economic Law, 2008, 11, 3, 559–73.
61. Rahul Singh, ‘The World Trade Organization and Legitimacy: Evolving a Framework for Bridging the Democratic Deficit’, Journal of World Trade, 2008, 42, 2, 347–65.
62. Debra P. Steger, ‘The Future of the WTO: The Case for Institutional Reform’, Journal of International Economic Law, 2009, 12, 4, 803–33.
63. Peter D. Sutherland, ‘Leadership and Vision: Some Lessons from the Uruguay Round’, in Merit E. Janow, Victoria Donaldson, and Alan Yanovich (eds.), The WTO: Governance, Dispute Settlement & Developing Countries (Juris Publishing, 2008), pp. 49–62.
Name: The World Trade Organization (Hardback) – Routledge
Description: Edited by Debra Steger. With a membership of 149 countries, the World Trade Organization (WTO) is the international organization with responsibility for the global rules of trade between nations. Its stated principal function is to ensure that trade flows as smoothly,...
Categories: International Economics, International Trade (incl. trade agreements & tariffs)