Multilateralism and the World Trade Organisation : The Architecture and Extension of International Trade Regulation

ISBN-13: 9780415221719 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 176 str.

Rorden Wilkinson

Opis

The demonstrations that accompanied the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) third ministerial meeting in Seattle in late 1999 offered many people the first glimpse of the organisation. Attention was also drawn to a growing tide of criticism being levelled at the WTO for a perceived lack of environmental and developmental sensitivity, as well as a disregard for the rights of workers. This book contributes to a growing body of literature exploring the significance of the establishment of the WTO, as well as some of the issues brought into sharper focus by the Seattle demonstrations. Located within the broader study of global governance, it offers a critical examination of the legal framework of the WTO. It looks at the evolution of international trade regulation, tracing the historical background of the WTO from its beginnings in the post-war settlement. Rorden Wilkinson goes on to formulate a conception of multilateralism as a prism through which the WTO's legal framework is studied.

Spis treści

1. Introduction
Part I. The Architecture of Multilateralism
2. The Institutional Evolution of International Trade Regulation
3. Multilateralism: The Architecture of International Trade Regulation
Part II. The Extension of Multilateralism
4. The World Trade Organisation
5. Non-Discrimination and the WTO
6. Trade Barrier Reduction and the WTO
7. Dispute Settlement and the WTO
8. Multilateralism and the WTO

O autorze

Rorden Wilkinson