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Reforming the World Trading System Legitimacy, Efficiency, and Democratic Governance

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ISBN-10: 0199282633

ISBN-13: 9780199282630

Edition: 2005

Authors: Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, James Harrison

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The 1994 agreement establishing the World Trade Organization (WTO) regulates over 95% of world trade amongst 148 member countries. The November 2001 Declaration of the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the WTO in Doha, Quatar, has launched the Doha Development Round of multilateral trade negotiations in the WTo on 21 topics aimed at far-reaching reforms of the world trading system. On August 1st 2004, the WTO General Council reached agreement on a detailed Doha Work program with the aim of concluding negotiations in 2006. This volume provides discussion and policy recommendations by leading WTO negotiators and policy-makers, and analysis by leading economists, political scientists and trade…    
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List price: $140.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/11/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 1.28" tall
Weight: 1.958
Language: English

Christian Joerges is Professor of Economic Law at the European University Institute, Florence.Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann is Professor of International and European Law at the European University Institute at Florence.

Foreword, Carlo Trojan
Notes on Contributors
List of Abbreviations
WTO Negotiators and Academics Analyze the Doha Development Round of the WTO
Overview and Summary of the Book, Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann
The Doha Development Round and the Future of the WTO: Policy Proposals
The Doha Development Agenda: Political Challenges to the World Trading System - A Cosmopolitan Perspective
A Development Perspective on the WTO July 2004 General Council Decision
Cordell Hull, the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act and the WTO
Building-Blocks for Concluding the Doha Round Negotiations on Agriculture
How to Forge a Compromise in the Agricultural Negotiations?
The Agricultural Negotiations: The Road from Doha and How to Keep the Negotiations on a Positive Track
Strategic Use of WTO Dispute Settlement Proceedings for Advancing WTO Negotiations on Agricultural Subsidies
The Doha Round Negotiations on Services Trade
Developing Country Proposals for the Liberalization of Movements of Natural Service Suppliers
Navigating Between the Poles: Unpacking the Debate on the Implications for Development of GATS Obligations Relating to Health and Education Services
Negotiations on Domestic Regulation and Trade in Services (Article VI GATS): A Legal Analysis of Selected Current Issues
Less-Developed WTO Members in the Doha Round Negotiations
Operationalizing the Concept of Policy Space in the WTO: Beyond Special and Differential Treatment of Developing Countries
Can WTO Technical Assistance and Capacity-Building Serve Developing Countries?
Developing Countries Interests and Negotiation Positions on Protection of Geographical Indications and Traditional Knowledge
Are WTO Rules Adequately Protecting Consumer Welfare?
Come Together? Producer Welfare, Consumer Welfare and WTO Rules
Non-Discrimination, Welfare Balances and WTO Rules: An Historical Perspective
Is There a Need for Additional WTO Competition Rules Promoting Non-Discriminatory Competition Laws and Competition Institutions in WTO Members?
Are the Competition Rules in the WTO TRIPS Agreement Adequate?
Investment and the Doha Development Agenda
Challenges to the Political Legitimacy of the WTO System
The ""Human Rights Approach to International Trade"" Advocated by UN Human Rights Bodies and by the International Labour Organization: Is it Relevant for WTO Law and Policy?
Parliamentary Oversight of WTO Rule-Making: The Political, Normative and Practical Contexts
How Can Parliamentary Participation in WTO Rule-Making and Democratic Control Be Made More Effective in the WTO? A United States Congressional Perspective
How Can Parliamentary Participation in WTO Rule-Making and Democratic Control Be Made More Effective? The European Context
A Parliamentary Dimension to the WTO - More than Just a Vision?
A Few Thoughts on Legitimacy, Democracy and the WTO
The WTO and Cosmopolitics
Transparency, Public Debate and Participaton by NGOs in the WTO: A WTO Perspective
WTO Decision-Making Procedures, 'Member-Driven' Rule-Making and WTO Consensus Practices: Are They Adequate?
Improving the Capacity of WTO Institutions to Fulfil their Mandate
Chairing a WTO Negotiation
Are WTO Decision-Making Procedures Adequate for Making, Revising and Implementing Worldwide and 'Plurilateral' Rules?
Is There a Need for Restructuring the Collaboration Among the WTO and UN Specialized Agencies so as to Harness their Complementarities?
Can the WTO Dispute Settlement System Deal with Competition Disputes?