Redesigning the World Trade Organization for the Twenty First Century

Contents Foreword I Why institutional reform is necessary 1 Why institutional reform of the WTO is necessaryDebra Steger 2 Reinvigorating debate on WTO reform the contours of a functional and normative approach to analyzing the WTO systemCarolyn Deere Birkbeck II Decision making in the WTO 3 A two tier approach to WTO decision makingThomas Cottier 4 WTO decision-making can we get a little help from the secretariat and the critical massManfred Elsig 5 Improvements to the WTO decision making process lessons from the International monetary fund and the world bankAlberto Alvarez Jimenez III Internal management of the WTO 6 Internal management of the WTO room from improvementDebra Steger and Natalia Shpilkovskaya IV A transparency and domestic consultation 7 From the periphery to the center The evolving WTO jurisprudence on transparency and good governancePadideh Ala?i 8 Selective adaptation of WTO transparency norms and local practices in China and JapanLjiljana Biukovic 9 Domestic politics and the search for new social purpose governance for the WTO a proposal for a declaration on domestic consultationSeema Sapra 10 Enhancing business participation in trade policy making lessons from ChinaHeng Wang V Public participation 11 Options for public participation in the WTO experience from regional trade agreementsYves Bonzon 12 Non-Governmental organizations and the WTO limits to involvementPeter Van Den Bossche VI Regional trade agreements and the WTO 13 Accommodating developing countries in the WTOGerhard Erasmus 14Saving the WTO from the rise of irrelevance the WTO dispute settlement mechanism as a Comon good for RTA disputesHenry Gao and Chin Leng LIM 15 Regional trade agreements and the WTO the Gyrating gears of interdependencePablo Heidrich and Diana Tussie Bibliography IndexTwo high level commissions the Sutherland report in 2004 and the Warwick Commission report in 2007 addressed the future of the world trade organization and made proposals for incremental reform This book goes further It explains why institutional reform of the WTO is needed at this critical juncture in world history and provides innovative practical proposals for modernizing the WTO to enable it to respond to the challenges of the twenty first century Contributors focus on five critical areas transparency decision and rule making procedures internal management structures participation by non-governmental organizations and civil society and relationships with regional trade agreements 476 pp.…