Saturday, May 28, 2011

Cottier & Elsig: Governing the World Trade Organization: Past, Present and Beyond Doha

Thomas Cottier (Universität Bern - World Trade Institute) & Manfred Elsig (Universität Bern - World Trade Institute) have published Governing the World Trade Organization: Past, Present and Beyond Doha (Cambridge Univ. Press 2011). Contents include:
  • Thomas Cottier and Manfred Elsig, Introduction
  • The origins and back to the future: a conversation with Ambassador Julio Lacarte
  • Tony McGrew, After globalization? WTO reform and the new global political economy
  • Marion Jansen, Internal measures in the multilateral trading system: where are the borders of the WTO agenda?
  • Markus Krajewski, Legitimising global economic governance through transnational parliamentarisation: how far have we come? How much further must we go?
  • Amrita Narlikar, Adapting to new power balances: institutional reform in the WTO
  • Bart Kerremans, Delegation chains, agenda control, and political mobilisation: how the EU Commission tries to affect domestic mobilisation on the DDA
  • Chad Bown, Developing countries and monitoring WTO commitments in response to the global economic crisis
  • Kent Jones, Exploring the limits of institutional coherence in trade and development
  • Mary Footer, The WTO as a 'living instrument': the contribution of consensus decision-making and informality to institutional norms and practices
  • Robert Kissack, Crisis situations and consensus seeking: adaptive decision making in the FAO and applying its lessons to the reform of the WTO
  • Steve Charnovitz, A post-Montesquieu analysis of the WTO
  • Manfred Elsig and Thomas Cottier, Reforming the WTO: the decision-making triangle revisited
  • Rorden Wilkinson, Barriers to WTO reform: intellectual narrowness and the production of path-dependent thinking