1st Edition

The WTO Crisis and the Governance of Global Trade

By Rorden Wilkinson Copyright 2006
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Rorden Wilkinson explores the factors behind the collapse of World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerials – as in Seattle in 1999 and Cancun in 2003 – and asks why such events have not significantly disrupted the development of the multilateral trading system.  He argues that the political conflicts played out during such meetings, their occasional collapse and the reasons why such... Read more

1. The WTO, Crisis and the Governance of Global Trade  2. Forging Multilateral Trade Regulation: The Post-War Settlement and the Rise of the GATT  3. Establishing Asymmetry: Liberalising Trade under the GATT  4. Fashioning the WTO: Formalising Multilateral Trade Regulation  5. Perpetuating Asymmetry: The Collapse of Ministerial Meetings and the Doha Development Agenda  6. Conclusion

Biography

Rorden Wilkinson is Professor of Global Political Economy and Head-elect Department of International Relations, University of Sussex, UK. He is author of Multilateralism and the World Trade Organisation (Routledge, 2000), editor of The Global Governance Reader (Routledge, 2005), and co-editor of Global Governance: Critical Perspectives (Routledge, 2002). He also co-edits the Global Institutions series.