Governing the World Trade Organization : past, present and beyond Doha

Discusses the various challenges the WTO faces and provides policy-relevant ideas to reform WTO governance

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cottier, Thomas (Author), Elsig, Manfred (Author)
Format: Book
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , c2011
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The origins and back to the future : a conversation with Ambassador Julio Lacarte Murَ
  • 3. After globalization? : WTO reform and the new global political economy
  • 4. Internal measures in the multilateral trading system : where are the borders of the WTO agenda?
  • 5. Legitimizing global economic governance through transnational parliamentarisation : how far have we come? how much further must we go?
  • 6. Adapting to new power balances : institutional reform in the WTO
  • 7. Delegation chains, agenda control and political mobilization : how the EU commission tries to affect domestic mobilization on the DDA
  • 8. Developing countries and monitoring WTO commitments in response to the global economic crisis
  • 9. Exploring the limits of institutional coherence in trade and development
  • 10. The WTO as a 'living institution' : the contribution of consensus decision-making and informality to institutional norms and practices
  • 11. Crisis situations and consensus seeking : adaptive decision-making in the FAO and applying its lessons to the reform of the WTO
  • 12. A post-Montesquieu analysis of the WTO
  • 13. Reforming the WTO : the decision-making triangle revisited
  • 14. Barriers to WTO reform : intellectual narrowness and the production of path-dependent thinking