Developing countries and the multilateral trade regime : the failure and promise of the WTOs' development mission / Donatella Alessandrini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alessandrini, Donatella, author.

Series:

Studies in international trade law ; v. 11.

Studies in international trade law ; v. 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Organization).

World Trade Organization.

Foreign trade regulation--Developing countries.

Foreign trade regulation.

International trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"This book explores the way in which 'development' has functioned within the multilateral trade regime since de-colonisation. In particular, it investigates the shift from early approaches to development under the GATT to current approaches to development under the WTO. It argues that a focus on the creation and transformation of a scientific apparatus that links forms of knowledge about the so-called Third World with forms of power and intervention is crucial for understanding the six decades long development enterprise of both the GATT and the WTO. The book is both topical and necessary given the emphasis on the current round of negotiations of the WTO. The Doha 'Development' Round has been premised on two assumptions. Firstly, that the international community has undertaken an unprecedented effort to address the imbalances of the multilateral trading regime with respect to the position of its developing country members. Secondly, that its successful conclusion represents an historic imperative and a political necessity for developing countries. Through a sustained analysis of the interaction between development thinking and trade practices, the book questions both assumptions by showing how development has always occupied a central position within the multilateral trading regime. Thus, rather than asking the question of what needs to be done in order to achieve 'development', the book examines the way in which development has operated and still operates to produce important, and often unacknowledged, power relations."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction - the failure and the promise of the multilateral trading regime

Bretton Woods Conference: trade and the 'civilising mission' in the postwar international trading regime

'Science of development' and the Gatt Norm

Neo-liberal transformation of development thinking and the renewed mission of the multilateral trading regime

Uruguay round and the construction of the new consensus

World Trade Organisation : the power of transnational capital and the reduction of domestic regulatory space

Of failures and promises: the many lives of the Doha development round

Conclusions - the development mission of the WTO.

Notes:

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of London, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [228]-241) and index.

ISBN:

9786612984495

9781472565167

1472565169

9781282984493

1282984497

9781847315922

1847315925

OCLC:

703137774