scholarly journals Trade Legalism and International Relations Theory: An Analysis of the World Trade Organization

1995 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 829 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Richard Shell
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
International Relations Theory ◽  
The World

scholarly journals The democratizing effects of multilateral organizations: a cautionary note on the WTO

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 487-507
Author(s):  
MANFRED ELSIG
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Potential Application ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Cautionary Note ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Politics ◽  
Long Time

AbstractThe field of international relations has been obsessed with democracy and democratization and its effects on international cooperation for a long time. More recently, research has turned its focus on how international organizations enhance democracy. This article contributes to this debate and applies a prominent liberal framework to study the ‘outside-in’ effects of the World Trade Organization. The article offers a critical reading of democratization through IO membership. It provides for an assessment of the dominant framework put forward by Keohane et al. (2009). In doing so, it develops a set of empirical strategies to test conjectured causal mechanisms with respect to the WTO, and illustrates the potential application by drawing on selected empirical evidence from trade politics. Finally, it proposes a number of analytical revisions to the liberal framework and outlines avenues for future research.

The WTO as Linkage Machine

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
José E. Alvarez
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
International Law ◽  
World Trade ◽  
International Regimes ◽  
Intergovernmental Organizations ◽  
Interstate Cooperation ◽  
The World ◽  
State Actors

The contributors to this symposium, both principal authors and commentators, ably demonstrate that there are indeed “overarching constructs” linking the subdisciplines of international law. All of the writers here assume that linkage issues arise for the World Trade Organization, as they have with respect to a number of other intergovernmental organizations, precisely because centralized, quasi-autonomous institutions maybe relatively effective vehicles for the promotion of interstate cooperation between rational, egoistic state actors. All of them assume, as scholars of international relations and economists have long recognized, that many international regimes are linkage machines by their very nature. It is important to recall why this is so in order to consider when or how an organization’s attempts at linkage may fail.

The Dynamics of China’s Accession to the WTO: Counting Sense, Coalitions and Constructs

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 263-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Marc F. Blanchard
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
The World ◽  
Policy Construction ◽  
Wto Accession

AbstractThis article probes China’s admission to the World Trade Organization (WTO). China’s WTO accession deserves further analysis because much of the extant literature is divorced from the international relations (IR) literature. Moreover, while past analyses have considered external and internal factors shaping China’s stance towards joining the WTO, they have rarely gone beyond this to probing when particular variables mattered more. For its part, research that emphasises domestic factors falls short because it often treats such factors generically or fails to detail the path through which they affect issue identification, policy construction and implementation. This article addresses these lacunas by conducting a theoretically informed study of China’s WTO accession. While traditional interest-, power- and idea-based IR approaches to international governmental organisations (IGOs) capture various aspects of the story of China’s effort to join the WTO, they miss other critical features. This article argues that a leader-oriented cost-benefit model best explains China’s continued quest to become a WTO member, its aggressive pursuit of accession in the second half of the 1990s, and its willingness to tolerate very demanding WTO entry terms.

Russian Policy of Agriculture Support and the Necessity of Its Modification after WTO Accession

2012 ◽  
pp. 132-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Uzun
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
World Trade ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Wto Accession ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Agriculture Support

The article deals with the features of the Russian policy of agriculture support in comparison with the EU and the US policies. Comparative analysis is held considering the scales and levels of collective agriculture support, sources of supporting means, levels and mechanisms of support of agricultural production manufacturers, its consumers, agrarian infrastructure establishments, manufacturers and consumers of each of the principal types of agriculture production. The author makes an attempt to estimate the consequences of Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization based on a hypothesis that this will result in unification of the manufacturers and consumers’ protection levels in Russia with the countries that have long been WTO members.

A Decade of the World Trade Organization and the Trade Performance of Muslim Countries

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 23-44
Author(s):  
Ruzita Mohd. Amin
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Merchandise Trade ◽  
Wto Agreements

The World Trade Organization (WTO), established on 1 January 1995 as a successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), has played an important role in promoting global free trade. The implementation of its agreements, however, has not been smooth and easy. In fact this has been particularly difficult for developing countries, since they are expected to be on a level playing field with the developed countries. After more than a decade of existence, it is worth looking at the WTO’s impact on developing countries, particularly Muslim countries. This paper focuses mainly on the performance of merchandise trade of Muslim countries after they joined the WTO. I first analyze their participation in world merchandise trade and highlight their trade characteristics in general. This is then followed by a short discussion on the implications of WTO agreements on Muslim countries and some recommendations on how to face this challenge.

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