1st Edition

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Resurgence and the Development Agenda

By Christopher May Copyright 2007
150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

Covering the World Intellectual Property Organization, this volume introduces a much ignored element of the contemporary structure of global governance to scholars of international political economy. Christopher May discusses: how the World Intellectual Property Organization works, its antecedents and history the debates about the role and justification of intellectual property the... Read more

Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Chapter 1 Intellectual Property

Chapter 2 The WIPO's Antecedents and History

Chapter 3 How the WIPO works

Chapter 4 Global Governance and Intellectual Property

Chapter 5 The problem with the WIPO

Chapter 6 The WIPO's rise, fall and comeback

Appendices

Bibliographys

Biography

May, Christopher