Governing the World Trade Organization :

Governing the World Trade Organization : past, present and beyond doha / edited by Thomas Cottier and Manfred Elsig. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014. - xviii, 348 p. : ill., charts ; 24 cm.

Index : p. 337-348

Includes bibligraphical references.

The origins and back to the future: a conversation with Ambassador / Julio Lacarte -- After globalization? : WTO reform and the new global political economy / Tony McGrew -- Internal measures in the multilateral trading system : where are the borders of the WTO agenda? / Marion Jansen -- Legitimising global economic governance through transnational parliamentarisation: how far have we come? : How much further must we go? / Markus Krajewski -- Adapting to new power balances : institutional reform in the WTO / Amrita Narlikar -- Delegation chains, agenda control, and political mobilisation : how the EU Commission tries to affect domestic mobilisation on the DDA / Bart Kerremans -- Developing countries and monitoring WTO commitments in response to the global economic crisis / Chad Bown -- Exploring the limits of institutional coherence in trade and development / Kent Jones -- The WTO as a 'living instrument': the contribution of consensus decision-making and informality to institutional norms and practices / Mary Footer -- Crisis situations and consensus seeking: adaptive decision making in the FAO and applying its lessons to the reform of the WTO / Robert Kissack -- A post-Montesquieu analysis of the WTO / Steve Charnovitz -- Reforming the WTO : the decision-making triangle revisited / Manfred Elsig and Thomas Cottier -- Barriers to WTO reform : intellectual narrowness and the production of path-dependent thinking / Rorden Wilkinson.

Discusses the various challenges the WTO faces and provides policy-relevant ideas to reform WTO governance.


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