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The Elgar Companion to the World Trade Organization
This comprehensive Companion provides an extensive guide to understanding the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its impact on the global economy. Addressing the challenges facing the WTO amidst a rapidly evolving landscape, the book delves into the diverse trade policies of countries and regions, providing rare insights into their impact on the global trade governance frameworks.
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This comprehensive Companion provides an extensive guide to understanding the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its impact on the global economy. Addressing the challenges facing the WTO amidst a rapidly evolving landscape, the book delves into the diverse trade policies of countries and regions, providing rare insights into their impact on the global trade governance frameworks.
Featuring insightful contributions from interdisciplinary experts, this essential Companion will aid readers in comprehending the WTO’s functions and its significance in international trade and broader economic policies. Chapters explore the influence of regional trade agreements on countries’ trade agendas, the WTO’s critical role in fostering free and fair trade, and the shifting dynamics of global economic governance. The book further highlights the importance of dispute resolution, regional integration, and coalitions for effective trade policy making.
Highlighting the need for increased transparency, flexibility, and adaptability to ensure the WTO’s continued relevance in global economic governance, this Companion will be indispensable for scholars and students of institutional economics, international relations, law and politics, and regulation and governance. It will also be beneficial for trade lawyers, experts, and professionals who work in international trade and commerce, as well as NGOs and civil society organizations.
Featuring insightful contributions from interdisciplinary experts, this essential Companion will aid readers in comprehending the WTO’s functions and its significance in international trade and broader economic policies. Chapters explore the influence of regional trade agreements on countries’ trade agendas, the WTO’s critical role in fostering free and fair trade, and the shifting dynamics of global economic governance. The book further highlights the importance of dispute resolution, regional integration, and coalitions for effective trade policy making.
Highlighting the need for increased transparency, flexibility, and adaptability to ensure the WTO’s continued relevance in global economic governance, this Companion will be indispensable for scholars and students of institutional economics, international relations, law and politics, and regulation and governance. It will also be beneficial for trade lawyers, experts, and professionals who work in international trade and commerce, as well as NGOs and civil society organizations.
Critical Acclaim
‘This innovative Companion offers convincing analyses on the law, economics, and politics of WTO law and on the challenges posed to the international trade regime originating in major trends such as digitilization, facilitation, pacification and regional perspectives.’
– Armin Steinbach, HEC Paris, France
‘The Elgar Companion to the World Trade Organization by Julien Chaisse and Cristián Rodríguez-Chiffelle is a work of encyclopaedic breadth which will offer both scholars and practitioners valuable assistance in obtaining an overview of the rapidly-transforming multilateral trade regime at critical times. A must to read.’
– Alberto Alemanno, HEC Paris, France
– Armin Steinbach, HEC Paris, France
‘The Elgar Companion to the World Trade Organization by Julien Chaisse and Cristián Rodríguez-Chiffelle is a work of encyclopaedic breadth which will offer both scholars and practitioners valuable assistance in obtaining an overview of the rapidly-transforming multilateral trade regime at critical times. A must to read.’
– Alberto Alemanno, HEC Paris, France
Contributors
Contributors include: Usman Ahmed, Roberto Azevêdo, Elena I. Athwal, Sofía Baliño, Kwabena Bandoh, Nathalie Bernasconi-osterwalder, Jennifer Blanke, Kimberley Botwright, Nicholas Bramble, Miguel Braun, Julien Chaisse, Michelle Chandra Kasih, Debashis Chakraborty, Jaime Coghi, David Collins, Anoush der Boghossian, Georgios Dimitropoulos, Hubert Escaith, Muhammad Faliq Abdul Razak, Mark Feldman, Christian Freudlsperger, Danny Friedmann, Pablo M. García, Daniel Gay, Anabel Gonzalez, Jedrzej Gorski, Pierre Habbard, Pasha l. Hsieh, Jie (Jeanne) Huang, Philippe Isler, Marion Jansen, Markus Jelitto, Anna Joubin-Bret, Sufian Jusoh, Sungjin Kang, Jodie Keane, Tomohiko Kobayashi, Alexander Kunzelmann, Simon B.C. Lacey, Robert Z. Lawrence, Soledad Leal Campos, Elli Louka, Peter Lovelock, Petros C. Mavroidis, Joshua P. Meltzer, Sophie Meunier, Daiana Fernández Molero, Martin Molinuevo, Irma Johanna Mosquera Valderrama, Intan Murnira Ramli, Joy W. Ndubai, Rostam J. Neuwirth, Damilola S. Olawuyi, Jeffrey Owens, Asmita Parshotam, Eduardo Pedrosa, Shin-yi Peng, Rodrigo Polanco, Tatiana Prazeres, Ilia Rachkov, Elizaveta Rachkov, Cristián Rodríguez-Chiffelle, Shunko Rojas, Edo Setyadi, Stephen E. Shay, Joel Slawotsky, Mariam Soumaré, Ronald Steenblik, Martin Steinfeld, Jeremy Stewart, Aditi Sara Verghese, David Weller, Candice White, Gregory Whitten, lan W.M. Wolff
