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Author: Amrita Narlikar Publisher: Republic of Letters ISBN: 9789089790101 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 268
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Studies in International Institutional Dynamics, 2 (International Studies Library, 18) This volume presents an authoritative and cutting-edge account of the evolving multilateral trading system and the challenges that it faces today. It focuses on details affecting the Doha negotiations and also addresses broader themes of leadership, changing balances of power, and institutional limitations of the WTO. Six country-cases of the established and rising powers, along with two chapters on the critical intervening variable of coalitions, offer new insights into problems and opportunities available in the multilateral trading system. The Introduction and Conclusion, co-authored by the two editors, ensure that the resulting volume will provide an accessible, holistic, and cohesive understanding of leadership and change in the multilateral trading system. Table of Contents Acknowledgements Author biographies 1. Introduction: Global trade governance in a multipolar world, Brendan Vickers and Amrita Narlikar Part I: The Established Powers 2. The EU in the Doha negotiations: A Conflicted leader?, Manfred Elsig 3. US trade Policy and the rise of the big emerging economies, Geoffrey Allen Pigman Part II: Rising powers in a multipolar trading system 4. Brazil's multilateral trade diplomacy in the WTO, Maria Lucia L. M. Pdua Lima 5. Shifting coordinates of India's stance in the WTO: Understanding the domestic and international drivers, Amit Ray and Sabyasachi Saha 6. Reforming the WTO: China, the Doha round, and beyond, Gregory Chin 7. 'Reclaiming development in multilateral trade': South Africa and the politics of the Doha round, Brendan Vickers Part III: Bargaining coalitions in the Doha negotiations 8. A Theory of Bargaining Coalitions, Amrita Narlikar 9. Reflections on the WTO July 2008 collapse: Lessons for developing country coalitions, Faizel Ismail 10. Conclusion: What leadership and what change?, Amrita Narlikar and Brendan Vickers About the Author(s)/Editor(s) Amrita Narlikar is University Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, and Official Fellow of Darwin College. Her single-authored books include The World Trade Organization: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005 (translated into Chinese and Arabic), and International Trade and Developing Countries: Bargaining coalitions in the GATT and WTO, London: Routledge, 2003. Brendan Vickers, is Senior Researcher in Multilateral Trade at the Institute for Global Dialogue, Johannesburg, South Africa and Research Associate of the Department of Political Science at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. The post-war international architecture was designed and created by the hegemon - the United States. This book is an important addition to a growing literature on the multipolar world. There is still a hegemon, but with less and less power. The post-war partner Europe is more and more concerned with domestic issues. And there is a growing collection of coalitions. Thus, for example, there are the BRICs - Brazil, Russia, India and China - and the BICS - Brazil, India, China and South Africa - and lots of Gs. And BEEs or big emerging economies. Yet no coherent view of the trading system has emerged! There's a famous doggerel from the Bretton Woods negotiations: 'In Washington, Lord Halifax whispered to Lord Keynes, they've got all the money bags and we've got all the brains!' Today, as this excellent collection of studies illustrates, much of the money bags are in, say, China. And the brains are spread out all over the place. This is essential reading to begin to understand the emerging new world order. Or disorder? Sylvia Ostry, Distinguished Research Fellow, Munk Centre for International Studies
Author: Amrita Narlikar Publisher: Republic of Letters ISBN: 9789089790101 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 268
Book Description
Studies in International Institutional Dynamics, 2 (International Studies Library, 18) This volume presents an authoritative and cutting-edge account of the evolving multilateral trading system and the challenges that it faces today. It focuses on details affecting the Doha negotiations and also addresses broader themes of leadership, changing balances of power, and institutional limitations of the WTO. Six country-cases of the established and rising powers, along with two chapters on the critical intervening variable of coalitions, offer new insights into problems and opportunities available in the multilateral trading system. The Introduction and Conclusion, co-authored by the two editors, ensure that the resulting volume will provide an accessible, holistic, and cohesive understanding of leadership and change in the multilateral trading system. Table of Contents Acknowledgements Author biographies 1. Introduction: Global trade governance in a multipolar world, Brendan Vickers and Amrita Narlikar Part I: The Established Powers 2. The EU in the Doha negotiations: A Conflicted leader?, Manfred Elsig 3. US trade Policy and the rise of the big emerging economies, Geoffrey Allen Pigman Part II: Rising powers in a multipolar trading system 4. Brazil's multilateral trade diplomacy in the WTO, Maria Lucia L. M. Pdua Lima 5. Shifting coordinates of India's stance in the WTO: Understanding the domestic and international drivers, Amit Ray and Sabyasachi Saha 6. Reforming the WTO: China, the Doha round, and beyond, Gregory Chin 7. 'Reclaiming development in multilateral trade': South Africa and the politics of the Doha round, Brendan Vickers Part III: Bargaining coalitions in the Doha negotiations 8. A Theory of Bargaining Coalitions, Amrita Narlikar 9. Reflections on the WTO July 2008 collapse: Lessons for developing country coalitions, Faizel Ismail 10. Conclusion: What leadership and what change?, Amrita Narlikar and Brendan Vickers About the Author(s)/Editor(s) Amrita Narlikar is University Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, and Official Fellow of Darwin College. Her single-authored books include The World Trade Organization: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005 (translated into Chinese and Arabic), and International Trade and Developing Countries: Bargaining coalitions in the GATT and WTO, London: Routledge, 2003. Brendan Vickers, is Senior Researcher in Multilateral Trade at the Institute for Global Dialogue, Johannesburg, South Africa and Research Associate of the Department of Political Science at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. The post-war international architecture was designed and created by the hegemon - the United States. This book is an important addition to a growing literature on the multipolar world. There is still a hegemon, but with less and less power. The post-war partner Europe is more and more concerned with domestic issues. And there is a growing collection of coalitions. Thus, for example, there are the BRICs - Brazil, Russia, India and China - and the BICS - Brazil, India, China and South Africa - and lots of Gs. And BEEs or big emerging economies. Yet no coherent view of the trading system has emerged! There's a famous doggerel from the Bretton Woods negotiations: 'In Washington, Lord Halifax whispered to Lord Keynes, they've got all the money bags and we've got all the brains!' Today, as this excellent collection of studies illustrates, much of the money bags are in, say, China. And the brains are spread out all over the place. This is essential reading to begin to understand the emerging new world order. Or disorder? Sylvia Ostry, Distinguished Research Fellow, Munk Centre for International Studies
Author: Roger B. Porter Publisher: Brookings Institution Press ISBN: 9780815771630 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 468
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Despite its widely acknowledged contribution to global prosperity over the past half century, the movement toward further liberalization has increasingly been challenged. This collection of essays examine several key issues at the heart of the debate over the multilateral trading system.
Author: Rachel F Fefer Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781092787307 Category : Languages : en Pages : 64
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Historically, the United States' leadership of the global trading system has ensured the United States a seat at the table to shape the international trade agenda in ways that both advance and defend U.S. interests. The evolution of U.S. leadership and the global trade agenda remain of interest to Congress, which holds constitutional authority over foreign commerce and establishes trade negotiating objectives and principles through legislation. Congress has recognized the World Trade Organization (WTO) as the "foundation of the global trading system" within trade promotion authority (TPA) and plays a direct legislative and oversight role over WTO agreements. The statutory basis for U.S. WTO membership is the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (P.L. 103-465), and U.S. priorities and objectives for the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)/WTO have been reflected in various TPA legislation since 1974. Congress also has oversight of the U.S. Trade Representative and other agencies that participate in WTO meetings and enforce WTO commitments. The WTO is a 164-member international organization that was created to oversee and administer multilateral trade rules, serve as a forum for trade liberalization negotiations, and resolve trade disputes. The United States was a major force behind the establishment of the WTO in 1995, and the rules and agreements resulting from multilateral trade negotiations. The WTO encompassed and succeeded the GATT, established in 1947 among the United States and 22 other countries. Through the GATT and WTO, the United States, with other countries, sought to establish a more open, rules-based trading system in the postwar era, with the goal of fostering international economic cooperation and raising economic prosperity worldwide. Today, 98% of global trade is among WTO members. any observers are concerned that the effectiveness of the WTO has diminished since the collapse of the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations, which began in 2001, and believe the WTO needs to adopt reforms to continue its role as the foundation of the global trading system. To date, WTO members have been unable to reach consensus for a new comprehensive multilateral agreement on trade liberalization and rules. While global supply chains and technology have transformed international trade and investment, global trade rules have not kept up with the pace of change. Many countries have turned to negotiating free trade agreements (FTAs) outside the WTO as well as plurilateral agreements involving subsets of WTO members rather than all members. Certain WTO members have begun to explore aspects of reform and future negotiations. Potential reforms concern the administration of the organization, its procedures and practices, and attempts to address the inability of WTO members to conclude new agreements. Proposed DS reforms also attempt to improve the working of the dispute settlement system, particularly the Appellate Body-the seven-member body that reviews appeals by WTO members of a panel's findings in a dispute case. Some U.S. frustrations with the WTO are not new and many are shared by other trading partners, such as the European Union. At the same time, the Administration's overall approach has spurred new questions regarding the future of U.S. leadership and U.S. priorities for improving the multilateral trading system. Concerns have emphasized that the Administration's recent actions to unilaterally raise tariffs under U.S. trade laws and to possibly impede the functioning of the dispute settlement system might undermine the credibility of the WTO system. A growing question of some observers is whether the WTO would flounder for lack of U.S. leadership, or whether other WTO members like the EU and China taking on larger roles would continue to make it a meaningful actor in the global trade environment.
Author: Craig VanGrasstek Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 704
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The History and Future of the World Trade Organization is a comprehensive account of the economic, political and legal issues surrounding the creation of the WTO and its evolution. Fully illustrated with colour and black-and-white photos dating back to the early days of trade negotiations, the publication reviews the WTO's achievements as well as the challenges faced by the organisation, and identifies the key questions that WTO members need to address in the future. The book describes the intellectual roots of the trading system, membership of the WTO and the growth of the Geneva trade community, trade negotiations and the development of coalitions among the membership, and the WTO's relations with other international organisations and civil society. Also covered are the organisation's robust dispute settlement rules, the launch and evolution of the Doha Round, the rise of regional trade agreements, and the leadership and management of the WTO.
Author: Geza Feketekuty Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations Press ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 412
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According to the authors, challenges resulting from the globalization of production and the integration of former socialist economies into the world market economy create the need for new trade negotiations at both the regional and global level. Government policies and regulations that constitute barriers to foreign trade and investment still need to be overcome. Anticompetitive practices such as trade-restricting cartels need to be eliminated. Philosophical and political differences over how trade agreements should deal with issues such as labor and the environment need to be resolved. The book provides a comprehensive review of the issues confronting U.S. trade policymakers and outlines a strategy to deal with them. The book is essential reading for public officials, business leaders and private citizens who wish to think broadly about American's role in the global economy of the 21st century.
Author: Alan Wm. Wolff Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1009289306 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 589
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In recent years, the world trading system has been confronted by a range of new and developing challenges: the risk of climate change, the instability of the digital economy, the ongoing impacts of COVID-19 and the threat of future pandemics, to name but a few. In this book, veteran trade negotiator, Ambassador Alan Wm. Wolff, draws from his years of experience at the World Trade Organization to consider the history of trade, the current trading system and how it should be reformed in the future. Offering a rare insight into the inner workings of the WTO, Wolff is uniquely placed to identify deficiencies in the current system and suggest actionable solutions. This essential guidebook to the WTO equips readers with the tools and knowledge required to tackle to emerging and emergent challenges of a global trading system.
Author: Ernest H. Preeg Publisher: ISBN: Category : Commercial treaties Languages : en Pages : 56
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This is the underlying issue confronting the World Trade Organization as trade ministers contemplate the launch of a new multilateral round of trade negotiations.
Author: Robert Mitchell Stern Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 584
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"This volume provides an analytical approach to most of the major items on the agenda of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations, which was convened in 1986 under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)." "The Uruguay Round negotiating agenda is ambitious in scope, consisting of such topics as barriers to trade, sectoral issues, and GATT rules, and a number of topics that had not been addressed in previous negotiations. The Multilateral Trading System begins with an introduction and overview of the issues, followed by two chapters that put the Uruguay Round in context and provide some historical perspective relating to previous GATT negotiations. The bulk of the volume consists of twelve analytical chapters that address many of the central issues, including tariffs and nontariff barriers; dumping; safeguards; agriculture; services; trade-related intellectual property rights; and trade-related investment measures. The concluding chapters deal with options for change, focusing on trade-offs, coalitions, and national interests and on suggestions for the design of a new constitution to govern the global trading system." "The Multilateral Trading System deals with issues of central importance in the global trading system. It will be of particular interest to specialists in international trade and staff economists in national and international agencies. Specialists and students in political science, law, and business administration will also find much that is useful."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Amrita Narlikar
Author: Amrita Narlikar
Author: Roger B. Porter
Author: Rachel F Fefer
Author: Kristen Hopewell
Author: Craig VanGrasstek
Author: Geza Feketekuty
Author: Alan Wm. Wolff
Author: Ernest H. Preeg
Author: World Trade organization. Trade and Environment Division
Author: Robert Mitchell Stern