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Title

The political economy of the world trading system : the WTO and beyond / Bernard M. Hoekman and Michel M. Kostecki.

Author

Hoekman, Bernard M., 1959-

Publication

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Kostecki, M. M.

Description

xxiii, 740 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

• The Political Economy of the World Trading System is a comprehensive textbook account of the economics, institutional mechanics, and politics of the world trading system. This third edition has been expanded and updated to cover developments in the World Trade Organization (WTO), including the Doha Round, presenting the essentials of trade negotiations, and the prevailing WTO rules and disciplines, up to mid 2009.
• The authors focus in particular on the WTO's role as the primary organization through which trading nations manage their commercial interaction, and as the focal point for policy responses in the rapidly changing global trading environment. It is the forum in which many features of the globalization process are considered, and it currently faces an unprecedented set of challenges. The increasing importance of Asian, Latin American, and African countries in international trade relations, the trend towards regionalism, intensification of trade conflicts, the role of business groups and NGOs in trade policy, and the pressures for more leadership within the WTO forum threatened by paralysis are discussed in some detail, since these are critical for the operation of the system and for international business. This edition also includes numerous real world examples to illustrate how the WTO affects the interests of businesses and consumers in both developed and developing countries.
• An insider view of the institutional history of the WTO allows the authors to use a variety of conceptual tools to analyse the workings of the WTO in a nontechnical manner. Suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter and an extensive bibliography make the volume suitable both for introductory and postgraduate courses on international economics and business, international relations, and international economic law.
• New to this edition
• The third edition covers developments in the trading system from 2000 to mid 2009, including an integral treatment of the Doha Round; it adds and updates material on dispute settlement, the use of contingent protection, the expansion of trade in services, the increasing role of developing countries and the accession of China; it discusses the failure of the WTO to expand its coverage to competition and investment policies; the implications of the rapid expansion of preferential trade agreements; and recent efforts to work with other organizations to increase development assistance for trade projects in developing countries ("aid for trade"). It also integrates recent scholarship in both the economic and political science/international relations fields on international cooperation in the trade area.

Subject

• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Organization)
• World Trade Organization
• GATT 1947
• World Trade Organization
• GATT 1947
• Geschichte
• Geschichte 1947-2007
• International economic relations
• International trade
• Tariff
• Weltwirtschaftsordnung
• Internationale Wirtschaftsorganisation
• WTO-Regeln
• Internationale Handelspolitik
• Welt
• Welthandel
• Handelsabkommen
• International economic relations
• International trade
• Tariff
• Organisation mondiale du commerce
• GATT
• Relations économiques internationales
• Commerce international
• Handelsabkommen
• Welthandel
• Wirtschaftsbeziehungen

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 700-734) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Trading System in Perspective -- 2. World Trade Organization -- 3. Dispute Settlement and Enforcement of Rules -- 4. Negotiating Forum -- 5. Trade in Goods -- 6. Sector-Specific Multilateral Trade Agreements -- 7. Trade in Services -- 8. Protection of Intellectual Property -- 9. Safeguards and Exceptions -- 10. Preferential Trade Agreements and Regional Integration -- 11. Plurilateral Agreements -- 12. Developing Countries and Economies in Transition -- 13. Towards Deeper Integration? The 'Trade and' Agenda -- 14. Legitimacy, Coherence and Governance -- 15. Where to from Here?

ISBN

• 9780199553778
• 0199553777
• 9780199553761
• 0199553769

LCCN

^^2009934133

OCLC

• 423604566
• SCSB-10411117

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Harvard Library