Defending interests : public-private partnerships in WTO litigation / Gregory C. Shaffer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaffer, Gregory C., 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Actions and defenses.

Public-private sector cooperation.

Foreign trade regulation.

World Trade Organization.

Physical Description:

xiv, 227 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book examines the growing interaction between private enterprises and public officials to challenge foreign trade barriers. Building on more than one hundred interviews with former and current trade officials and private attorneys in the United States and Europe, Gregory Shaffer calls attention to the ways in which well-organized private parties are using the World Trade Organization's legal system to advance their own commercial ambitions, and how public officials increasingly are dependent on their assistance. Shaffer assesses the historical, political, legal, economic, and cultural factors that have affected the formation of these ad hoc public-private partnerships, as well as trends in the European Union toward U.S.-style practice. He considers the implications of these public-private trade litigation networks for the effectiveness and equity of the WTO system and the stability of U.S.-E.U. relations.

Contents:

The blurring of the public and the private in international trade law

Public-private partnerships in theoretical perspective

The United States's initial partnership edge in opening foreign markets

Is the EC moving toward a U.S. partnership model?

Why a more aggressive U.S. approach?

Transatlantic public-private partnerships

The social, political, and legal implications.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815796220

0815796226

OCLC:

1132220011