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1 Introduction Thomas Cottier and Manfred Elsig -- Part I Setting the State 2 The origins and back to the future: a conversation with Ambassador Julio Lacarte Muró 3 After globalisation?: WTO reform and the new global political economy Tony McGrew -- Part II Boundaries 4 Internal measures in the multilateral trading system: where are the borders of the WTO agenda? Marion Jansen 5 Legitimising global economic governance through transnational parliamentarisation: how far have we come? how much further must we go? Markus Krajewski -- Part III Emerging and established power 6 Adapting to new power balances: institutional reform in the WTO Amrita Narlikar 7 Delegation chains, agenda control and political mobilisation: how the EU Commission tried to affect domestic mobilisation on the DDA Bart Kerremans -- Part IV Weaker actors 8 Developing countries and monitoring WTO commitments in response to the global economic crisis Chad P. Brown 9 Exploring the limits of institutional coherence in trade and development Kent Jones -- Part V The Consensus Principle 10 The WTO as a 'living institution': the contribution of consensus decision-making and informality to institutional norms and practices Mary E. Footer 11 Crisis situations and consensus seeking: adaptive decision-making in the FAO and applying its lessons to the reform of the WTO Robert Kissack -- Part VI Quo Vadis? 12 A post-Montesquieu analysis of WTO Steve Charnovitz 13 Reforming the WTO: the decision-making triangle revisited Manfred Elsig and Thomas Cottier 14 Barriers to WTO reform: intellectual narrowness and the production of path-dependent thinking Rorden Wilkinson

"The development of new digital technologies has resulted in significant transformations in daily life, from the arrival of online shopping to more fundamental changes in the ways we work and communicate. Many of these changes raise questions that transcend market access and liberalisation, and demand cooperation and coherent regulatory design. International trade regulation has hitherto not reacted in a forward-looking manner to the digital revolution and, particularly at the multilateral level, legal engineering has yielded few tangible results. This book examines whether WTO laws possess the necessary flexibility and resilience to accommodate the changes brought about by burgeoning digital trade. By revealing both the potential and the limitations of the WTO framework, it provides a broad picture of the interaction between digital technologies and trade regulation, links the often disconnected discourses of international trade law, intellectual property and cyberlaw and explores discrete problems in different domains of global trade regulation"--

Examining the twenty years since China acceded to the World Trade Organization, this collection provides an original, systematic assessment of the opportunities and challenges that China has presented to the WTO. Offering in-depth analyses of the 'two-way' relationship between China and the WTO, the contributions explore a range of key issues from the varied effects of WTO membership for China and the global economy to the responses of the WTO members to China's rapid economic growth. It presents diverse perspectives of leading scholars from multiple disciplines, including law, economics, political science, and international relations, as well as practical insights from senior policymakers from both China and the United States. This is an invaluable contribution to ongoing debates about the implications of the rise of China for global economic governance and enriches discussions of the wide-ranging implications of China's growing integration into the multilateral trading system, both now and in the future. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core

"This book provides an original systematic assessment of China's twenty years in the WTO. Combining insights from law, economics, political science, and international relations, it offers rich, multifaceted analyses of the opportunities and challenges China presents to the world trading system and the responses from other WTO Members. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core"--

"This is a critical period for the WTO and for realizing the potential of trade as a driver of growth and poverty reduction. It is time for good intentions to be translated into solid multilateral agreements that promote development, and it is high time that the rich countries tore down their barriers. But trade agreements by themselves cannot guarantee growth and poverty reduction: aid for trade and internal reforms are needed too. On all this, detail matters and trade agreements are complex. This book provides an up-to-date, clear, and thoughtful analysis of these crucial issues. It should b