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The Oxford handbook on the World Trade Organization

Author: Amrita Narlikar; M J Daunton; Robert M Stern
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, USA, 2012.
Series: Oxford handbooks.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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
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Genre/Form: Handbooks, manuals, etc
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Amrita Narlikar; M J Daunton; Robert M Stern
ISBN: 9780199586103 0199586101
OCLC Number: 775271599
Notes: Series statement on jacket.
Description: xxvii, 849 p. ; 26 cm.
Contents: Introduction / Amrita Narlikar, Martin Daunton, Robert M. Stern --
Part I: Theory of Multilateral Trade Liberalization. 1. The Case for a Multilateral Trade Organization / Robert E. Baldwin --
2. The Inconsistent Quartet: Free Trade Versus Competing Goals / Martin Daunton --
3. Trade Liberalization and Domestic Politics / Judith Goldstein --
Part II: Institutional Evolution: Building up the World Trade Organization. 4. International Trade Organization / Richard Toye --
5. The expanding mandate of the GATT: The First Seven Rounds / Thomas W. Zeiler --
6. Uruguay Round Negotiations and the Creation of the WTO / Ernest H. Preeg --
Part III: The Process Behind the Workings of the WTO. 7. The Role of the Director-General and the Secretariat / Richard Blackhurst --
8. Defining the Borders of the WTO Agenda / Marion Jansen --
9. Collective Agency, Systemic Consequences: Bargaining Coalitions in the WTO / Amrita Narlikar --
Part IV: Agency in the WTO. 10. The Influence of the EU in the World Trade System / Patrick A. Messerlin --
11. The Role of the United States : A Multi-level Explanation for Decreased Support over Time / Todd Allee --
12. The Role of the BRICS in the WTO: System supporters or Change agents in the WTO? / Brendan Vickers --
13. Least Developed Countries: Growing Voice / Shishir Priyadarshi and Taufiqur Rahman --
14. Awkward Partners: NGOs and Social Movements at the WTO / Jens Steffek --
15. What happened to the Influence of Business? Corporations and Organized Labour in the WTO / Steven McGuire --
Part V: Substance of the Agreements. 16. Trade in Manufactures and Agricultural Products: The Dangerous Link? / Helen Coskeran, Dan Kim, Amrita Narlikar --
17. Trade in Services in the WTO: From Marrakesh (1994) to Doha (2001) to... / Rudolf Adlung --
18. Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights / Keith E. Maskus --
19. Flexibilities, Rules, and Trade Remedies in the GATT/WTO system / J. Michael Finger --
20. Regulatory Measures / Robert Howse --
Part VI: Implementation and Enforcement. 21. The Trade Policy Review Mechanism / Sam Laird and Raymundo Valdés --
22. Dispute Settlement Mechanism --
Analysis and Problems / Thomas Bernauer, Manfred Elsig, and Joost Pauwelyn --
23. The Dispute Settlement Mechanism at the WTO -The Appellate Body, Assessment and Problems / Mitsuo Matsushita --
24. WTO Judicial Interpretation / Gregory Shaffer and Joel Trachtman --
25. The Dispute Settlement Mechanism: Ensuring Compliance? / Alan O. Sykes --
Part VII: Challenges to the System. 26. Persistent Deadlock in Multilateral Trade Negotiations / Manfred Elsig and Cédric Dupont --
27. The Role of Domestic Courts in the Implementation of WTO Law / Thomas Cottier --
28. Preferential Trading Arrangements / Richard Baldwin --
29. New Issues in Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources / Tim Josling --
Part VIII: Normative Issues. 30. Fairness in the WTO Trading System / Andrew G. Brown and Robert M. Stern --
31. Labour Standards and Human Rights / Drusilla K. Brown --
32. Trade and the Environment / Gary Hufbauer and Meera Fickling --
Part IX: Reform of the WTO. 33. Proposals for WTO Reform: A Synthesis and Assessment / Bernard Hoekman --
34. The WTO and Institutional (In)Coherence in Global Economic Governance / Steven Bernstein and Erin Hannah.
Series Title: Oxford handbooks.
Other Titles: World Trade Organization
Responsibility: edited by Amrita Narlikar, Martin Daunton and Robert M. Stern.

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