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

Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann and James Harrison

Abstract

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, launched the Doha Development Round of multilateral trade negotiations in the WTO on twenty-one 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. This volume provides discussion and policy recommendations by leading WTO negotiators and policy-makers, and analysis ... More

Keywords: WTO, world trade, Doha, Quatar, Doha Development Round, Doha Work program, policy recommendations, WTO negotiators, WTO policy-makers, WTO economists, WTO political scientists, trade lawyers, world trading system

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2005 Print ISBN-13: 9780199282623
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2012 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199282623.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, editor
Professor of Law, European University Institute, Florence

James Harrison, author

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Front Matter

Title Pages

General Editor's Preface

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

List of Abbreviations

Part I Introduction and Summary of the Book

WTO Negotiators and Academics Analyse the Doha Development Round of the WTO: Overview and Summary of the Book

Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann

Part II The Doha Development Round and The Future of the WTO: Policy Proposals

1 The Doha Development Agenda: Political Challenges to the World Trading System—A Cosmopolitan Perspective

Peter Sutherland

2 A Development Perspective on the WTO July 2004 General Council Decision

Faizel Ismail

3. Cordell Hull, the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, and the WTO

Kenneth W. Dam

Part III Building-Blocks for Concluding the Doha Round Negotiations on Agriculture

4 How to Forge a Compromise in the Agriculture Negotiations

Stefan Tangermann

5 The Agriculture Negotiations: The Road from Doha and How to Keep the Negotiations on a Positive Track

Stuart Harbinson

6 Strategic Use of WTO Dispute Settlement Proceedings for Advancing WTO Negotiations on Agriculture

Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann

Part IV The Doha Round Negotiations on Services Trade

7 Developing Country Proposals for the Liberalization of Movements of Natural Service Suppliers

L. Alan Winters

8 Navigating between the Poles: Unpacking the Debate on the Implications for Development of GATS Obligations relating to Health and Education Services

J. Anthony Vanduzer

9 Negotiations on Domestic Regulation and Trade in Services (GATS Article VI): A Legal Analysis of Selected Current Issues

Joel P. Trachtman

Part V Less-Developed WTO Members in the Doha Round Negotiations

10 Operationalizing the Concept of Policy Space in the WTO: Beyond Special and Differential Treatment1

Bernard Hoekman

11 Can WTO Technical Assistance and Capacity-Building Serve Developing Countries?

Gregory Shaffer

Part VI Are WTO Rules Protecting Consumer Welfare?

12 Come Together? Producer Welfare, Consumer Welfare, and WTO Rules

Petros C. Mavroidis

13 Non-Discrimination, Welfare Balances, and WTO Rules: An Historical Perspective

Patrick A. Messerlin

14 Is There a Need for Additional WTO Competition Rules Promoting Non-Discriminatory Competition Laws and Competition Institutions in WTO Members?

FranÇois Souty

15 Are the Competition Rules in the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Adequate?

Frederick M. Abbott

16 Investment and the Doha Development Agenda

Bijit Bora, and Edward M. Graham

Part VII Challenges to the Political Legitimacy of the WTO System

17 The ‘Human Rights Approach’ Advocated by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and by the International Labour Organization: Is It Relevant for WTO Law and Policy?

Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann

18 Parliamentary Oversight of WTO Rule-Making: The Political, Normative, and Practical Contexts

Gregory Shaffer

19 How Can Parliamentary Participation in WTO Rule-Making and Democratic Control be Made More Effective in the WTO? A United States Congressional Perspective

David E. Skaggs

20 How Can Parliamentary Participation in WTO Rule-Making and Democratic Control be Made More Effective? The European Context

Meinhard Hilf

21 A Parliamentary Dimension to the WTO: More than Just a Vision?

Erika Mann

22 A Few Thoughts on Legitimacy, Democracy, and the WTO

James Bacchus

23 The WTO and Cosmopolitics

Steve Charnovitz

24 Transparency, Public Debate, and Participation by NGOs in the WTO: a WTO Perspective

Julio A. Lacarte

Part VIII WTO Decision-Making procedures, ‘Member-driven’ Rule-making, and WTO consensus practices: are they adequate?

25 Improving the Capacity of WTO Institutions to Fulfil their Mandate

Richard Blackhurst, and David Hartridge

26 Chairing a WTO Negotiation

John S. Odell

27 Are WTO Decision-Making Procedures Adequate for Making, Revising, and Implementing Worldwide and ‘Plurilateral’ Rules?

Claus-Dieter Ehlermann, and Lothar Ehring

28 Is There a Need for Restructuring the Collaboration among the WTO and UN Agencies so as to Harness their Complementarities?

Gary P. Sampson

29 Can the WTO Dispute Settlement System Deal with Competition Disputes?1

Claus-Dieter Ehlermann, and Lothar Ehring

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