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Uri Dadush, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC
Chiedu Osakwe, World Trade Organization, Geneva

What have WTO accessions contributed to the rules-based multilateral trading system? What demands have been made by original WTO members on acceding governments? How have the acceding governments fared? This volume of essays offers critical readings on how WTO accession negotiations have expanded the reach of the multilateral trading system not only geographically but also conceptually, clarifying disciplines and pointing the way to their further strengthening in future negotiations. Members who have acceded since the WTO was established now account for twenty per cent of total WTO membership. In the age of globalization there is an increased need for a universal system of trade rules. Accession negotiations have been used by governments as an instrument for domestic reforms, and one lesson from the accession process is that there are contexts which lead multilateral trade negotiations to successful outcomes even in the complex and multi-polar twenty-first century economic environment.

Published September 2015 | 1010 pages | 228 x 153 mm x 42 mm | Weight: 1.590 kg

Table of Contents
Part I. WTO Accessions, the Trading System and the Global Economy
Part II. Overview
Part III. Members' Perspectives on Accession Negotiations
Part III.I. Original Members
Part III.II. Article XII Members
Part IV. Working Party Chairpersons' Perspectives on Accession Negotiations
Part V. Salient Features in WTO Accession Protocols
Part VI. Conclusion.

List of Contributors
Uri Dadush, Chiedu Osakwe, Bernard Hoekman, Mona Haddad, Claire H. Hollweg, Alberto Portugal-Perez, Alexei Kireyev, Emil P. Bolongaita, Maika Oshikawa, Andrey Slepnev, Mustapha Sekkate, Valerie Hughes, Petra Beslać, Mark Linscott, Cecilia Klein, Carlos Gimeno Verdejo, Ruta Zarnauskaite, Julie-Ann Guivarra, Xiankun Lu, Thomas Pen-Chung Tung, Cham Prasidh, Valeriy Pyatnitskiy, Svitlana Zaitseva, Goran Šćepanović, Danijela Gačević, Maxim Medvedkov, Dmitry Lyakishev, Khemmani Pholsena, Buavanh Vilavong, Saidrahmon Nazriev, Saadaldeen Ali Bin Talib, Clyde Kull, Stefán H. Jóhannesson, Steffen Smidt, Joakim Reiter, Jürgen Richtering, Eric Ng Shing, Dayong Yu, Antonia Carzaniga, Aik Hoe Lim, Juneyoung Lee, Rajesh Aggarwal, Charlotta Falenius, Robert D. Anderson, Anna Caroline Müller, Amara Okenwa, George Tebagana, Prajwal Baral, Josefita Pardo de León, Rafat Al-Akhali, Dimitar Bratanov, Alexandra Bhattacharya, Joan Apecu, Anna Varyanik

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