The Oxford Handbook on The World Trade Organization

The Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization provides an authoritative and cutting-edge account of the World Trade Organization. Its purpose is to provide a holistic understanding of what the WTO does, how it goes about fulfilling its tasks, its achievements and problems, and how it might contend with some critical challenges. The Handbook benefits from an interdisciplinary approach. The editorial team comprises a transatlantic partnership between a political scientist, a historian, and an economist. The distinguished and international team of contributors to the volume includes leading political scientists, historians, economists, lawyers, and practitioners working in the area of multilateral trade. All the chapters present original and state-of-the-art research material. They critically engage with existing academic and policy debates, and also contribute to the evolution of the field by setting the agenda for current and future WTO studies.The Handbook is aimed at research institutions, university academics, post-graduate students, and final-year undergraduates working in the areas of international organization, trade policy and negotiations, global economic governance, and economic diplomacy. As such, it should find an enthusiastic readership amongst students and scholars in History, Economics, Political Science, International Relations, Public Policy, and Law. Equally important, the book should have direct relevance for diplomats, international bureaucrats, government officials, and other policy-makers and practitioners in the area of trade and economic governance. Contributors to this volume - Amrita Narlikar, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. Martin Daunton, Professor of Economic History in the University of Cambridge and Master of Trinity Hall. Robert M. Stern, Visiting Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at University of California, Berkeley. Robert E. Baldwin, Hilldale Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Judith Goldstein, Janet M. Peck Professor in International Communication and the Kaye University Richard Toye, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Exeter Thomas Zeiler, Professor, Deprtment of History, University of Colorado at Boulder Ernest Preeg, Adjunct Fellow, Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters Richard Blackhurst, Adjunct Professor of International Economics, Tufts University. Marion Jansen, senior specialist for trade and employment in the Employment Sector of the International Labor Office. Patrick Messerlin, Professor of Economics, and Director, Groupe d'Economie Mondiale (GEM), Sciences Po, Paris Todd Allee, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Brendan Vickers, Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa Shishir Priyadarshi, Director of the World Trade Organisation Taufiqur Rahman, Economic Affairs Officer, Development Division, WTO Jens Steffek, Professor of Transnational Governance, Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main Steven McGuire, Professor of Management Director, Centre for International Business and Public Policy, Aberystwyth University Rudolf Adlung, Counsellor, Trade in Services Division, WTO Keith Maskus, Associate Dean for Social Sciences, and Professor of Economics, University of Colorado, Boulder. Michael Finger, Professor, Former Lead Economist and Chief, Trade Policy Research Group, World Bank Robert Howse, Lloyd C. Nelson Professor of International Law, New York University School of Law Sam Laird, Chief, Research Section, Trade Analysis Branch, Division for International Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities, UNCTAD Raymundo Valdes, WTO Manfred Elsig, Assistant Professor in International Relations at the WTI Joost Pauwelyn, Professor of International Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva Thoms Bernhauer, Professor of Political Science at ETH Zurich Mitsuo Matsushita, Professor Emeritus at Tokyo University and a former member of the WTO Appellate Body. Gregory Shaffer, Melvin C. Steen Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School Joel Trachtman, Professor of International Law, Tufts University Alan O. Sykes, Directs Masters Program in International Economic Law, Business and Policy, Stanford University Cedric Dupont, Professor of International Relations at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva Manfred Elsig, Assistant Professor at the World Trade Institute, University of Bern Thomas Cottier, Managing Director of the World Trade Institute and the Institute of European and International Economic Law, Professor of European and International Economic Law, University of Bern Richard Baldwin, Professor of International Economics, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva Tim Josling, Professor, Emeritus, Food Research Institute, Stanford University Andrew G. Brown, Wellfleet Chamber of Commerce Drusilla Brown, Associate Professor of Economics and Director of Tufts International Relations Program, Tufts University Meera Fickling, Research Analyst, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington DC Gary Hufbauer, Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics; Institute for International Economics Bernard Hoekman, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Steven Bernstein, Director of the MGA, an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto Erin Hannah, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto