Assessing the World Trade Organization: fit for purpose? : World Trade Forum

11 The Age of Innocence: The Evolution of the Case Law of the WTO Dispute Settlement: Subsidies as a Case StudyPart V Interactions Within and Across Regimes; 12 The Presence of the World Trade Organization Within Preferential Trade Agreements; 13 The WTO and Regional Trading Agreements: Is It All Over for Multilateralism?; 14 Performance and International Organisations' Borders: The Case of the World Trade Organization; 15 The GATT/WTO System and National Trade Policies: Which Comes First?; Index.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) recently celebrated twenty years of existence. The general wisdom is that its dispute settlement institutions work well and its negotiation machinery goes through a phase of prolonged crises. Assessing the World Trade Organization overcomes this myopic view and takes stock of the WTO's achievements whilst going beyond existing disciplinary narratives. With chapters written by scholars who have closely observed the development of the WTO in recent years, this book presents the state of the art in thinking about WTO performance. It also considers important issues such as the origins of the multilateral system, the accession process and the WTO's interaction with other international organisations. The contributions shed new light on untold stories, critically review and present existing scholarship, and sketch new research avenues for a future generation of trade scholars. This book will appeal to a wide audience that aims to better understand the drivers and obstacles of WTO performance