Emerging powers and the world trading system : the past and future of international economic law / Gregory Shaffer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaffer, Gregory C., 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign trade regulation.

Commercial treaties.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 321 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Victorious after World War II and the Cold War, the United States and its allies largely wrote the rules for international trade and investment. Yet, by 2020, it was the United States that became the great disrupter - disenchanted with the rules' constraints. Paradoxically, China, India, Brazil, and other emerging economies became stakeholders in and, at times, defenders of economic globalization and the rules regulating it. Emerging Powers and the World Trading System explains how this came to be and addresses the micropolitics of trade law - what has been developing under the surface of the business of trade through the practice of law, which has broad macro implications. This book provides a necessary complement to political and economic accounts for understanding why, at a time of hegemonic transition where economic security and geopolitics assume greater roles, the United States challenged, and emerging powers became defenders, of the legal order that the United States created.

Contents:

Introduction : emerging powers and the transnational legal ordering of trade

Building trade law capacity in emerging powers : its implications

The challenges of international trade law

Building legal capacity and adapting state institutions in Brazil / with Michelle Ratton Sanchez Badin

India : an emerging giant's transformation and its implicationst's / with James Nedumpara and Aseema Sinha

How China took on the United States and Europe at The WTO / with Henry Gao

A new Chinese economic law order? / with Henry Gao

Why U.S. disenchantment? Managing the interface

Conclusion : going forward.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Jul 2021).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781108861342

Access Restriction:

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