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| List of Figures and Tables | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acronyms | |
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| The WTO as an International Organization | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Issues: Effectiveness, equity, and legitimacy | |
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| Research questions | |
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| Approaches to the Analysis of International Organizations and the WTO | |
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| Concepts of international organizations | |
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| State-centered concepts | |
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| Political systems theory | |
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| Organizational analysis | |
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| Network perspectives | |
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| Studies on the WTO | |
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| International relations perspective | |
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| International law perspective | |
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| Organizational perspective | |
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| Practitioners' perspective | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Conceptual Framework, Variables, and Method | |
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| Conceptual framework | |
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| A public administration perspective on international organizations | |
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| Concepts of actor-centered institutionalism | |
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| Focal, formal, and informal organizations | |
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| Modes of governance | |
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| Performance criteria | |
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| Research variables | |
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| Research methods | |
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| Interviews | |
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| Survey | |
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| Legal analysis and literature review | |
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| Adequacy and validity of methods | |
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| WTO as a Public Formal Organization | |
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| Agreements, membership, and principles | |
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| Tasks | |
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| Trade negotiations | |
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| Implementation of trade agreements and technical assistance | |
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| Trade policy review | |
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| Dispute settlement | |
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| Organizational structure | |
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| Procedures | |
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| Trade negotiations | |
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| Implementation of trade agreements | |
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| Trade policy review | |
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| Dispute settlement | |
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| Summary of formal WTO characteristics | |
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| The WTO in Action | |
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| Trade negotiations and related areas of activities | |
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| Trade negotiations | |
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| Technical assistance | |
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| Research | |
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| Implementation of trade agreements | |
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| The role of the Secretariat | |
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| Formal and informal decision making | |
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| Trade policy review | |
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| The role of the Secretariat | |
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| Formal and informal decision making | |
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| Dispute settlement | |
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| The role of the Secretariat | |
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| Formal and informal decision making | |
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| The role of non-state actors | |
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| The informal WTO | |
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| The WTO as a hybrid actor | |
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| Perspectives on the Secretariat | |
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| Negotiations, technical assistance, and research | |
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| Implementation, trade policy review, and dispute settlement | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Performance Patterns of the WTO | |
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| Effectiveness | |
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| Task areas | |
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| Explanatory factors | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Equity | |
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| Task areas | |
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| Explanatory factors | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Legitimacy | |
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| Task areas | |
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| Explanatory factors | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Interdependencies between effectiveness, equity, and legitimacy | |
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| Reform Perspectives and Proposals | |
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| Overview of reform proposals | |
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| Strengthening the Secretariat and Director General | |
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| Developing the WTO structure | |
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| Improving WTO relations with NGOs | |
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| Formalizing structures and procedures in the area of trade negotiations | |
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| Developing the dispute settlement system | |
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| Assessment of reform proposals | |
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| Strengthening the Secretariat and Director General | |
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| Developing the WTO structure | |
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| WTO relations with NGOs | |
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| Formal elements in informal trade negotiations | |
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| Developing the dispute settlement system | |
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| Time to act | |
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| Need to reform | |
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| Strategy of reform | |
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| Recommended reform measures | |
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| Proposals for WTO reform which were evaluated by interview partners | |
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| Survey Questionnaire | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |