Reconstructing the World Trade Organization for the 21st Century
An Institutional Approach
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 19 March 2015
- ISBN 9780199366040
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages322 pages
- Size 155x236x27 mm
- Weight 544 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Reconstructing the World Trade Organization for the 21st Century explores the reasons for the WTO's failure to achieve comprehensive multilateral trade liberalization in the new 21st century global economy. The solution to the problem must come from institutional reforms that can promote global agreement on achieving the gains from trade.
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The institutional shortcomings of the World Trade Organization (WTO) became apparent during the Doha Round of Trade negotiations that began in 2001 and which aimed to improve the success of developing countries' trading by lowering trade barriers and adjusting other trade rules. This "development agenda " meant different things to rich and poor countries. In addition, many of the circumstances that supported success in General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) negotiations of 1947 were no longer present after the WTO was founded in 1995.
In Reconstructing the World Trade Organization for the 21st Century, Kent Jones examines the difficulties of the WTO in completing multilateral trade negotiations and possible ways to restore its ability to do so. The problem lies in the institutional structure it inherited from the GATT, which was designed for a more limited scope of trade negotiations among a relatively small number of wealthier, industrialized countries. Jones presents an institutional model of the GATT/WTO system, which describes why such an organization exists and how it is supposed to accomplish its goals.
Institutional reforms will be necessary to restore the WTO's ability to complete global trade agreements, including a more flexible application of the consensus rule, a common understanding among all members about the limits of domestic policy space that is subject to negotiation, and clearer rules on reciprocity obligations. The popularity of bilateral and regional trade agreements, which have emerged as the alternative to WTO agreements, presents a threat to the WTO's relevance in trade negotiations, but also an opportunity to "multilateralize " new and deeper trade integration in future WTO agreements. Aid for trade may also play an instrumental role in bringing more developing countries into WTO disciplines. Above all, WTO members must develop new ways to find common ground in order to negotiate for mutual gains from trade.
Kent Joness Reconstructing the World Trade Organization for the 21st Century examines the difficulties of the current trading system in completing multilateral trade negotiations and presents possible ways to restore its ability to do so.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Why Isn't There More Trade?
Chapter 1: The Doha Round: What Went Wrong and What's at Stake?
Chapter 2: Institutional Foundations of the GATT/WTO System
Chapter 3: The GATT-WTO Transition and Institutional Crisis in the Doha Round
Chapter 4: Impediments to Doha Round Consensus and the Search for WTO Solutions
Chapter 5: WTO Governance and Committee Chair Representation
Chapter 6: Regional vs. Multilateral Trade Liberalization
Chapter 7: Trade, Embedded Liberalism, and Development
Chapter 8: Pathways Back to Geneva
