ABSTRACT
After the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) critical December 2005 Hong Kong ministerial meeting, negotiations to implement the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) broke down completely in the summer of 2006. This book offers a detailed and critical evaluation of how and why the negotiations arrived at this point and what the future holds for the WTO.
It brings together leading scholars in the field of trade from across the social sciences who address the key issues at stake, the principal players in the negotiations, the role of fairness and legitimacy in the Doha Round, and the prospects for the DDA’s conclusion.
The WTO after Hong Kong is the most comprehensive account of the current state of the World Trade Organization and will be of enormous interest to students of trade politics, international organizations, development and international political economy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|33 pages
Setting the scene
part II|59 pages
Key issues
chapter 5|21 pages
Services, economic development, and the Doha Round
part III|91 pages
Principal players
chapter 6|22 pages
How the poor pay for the US trade deficit
part IV|39 pages
Fairness and legitimacy
chapter 11|16 pages
All's fair in love and trade?
chapter 12|21 pages
Democracy, development, and the WTO's legitimacy challenge
part V|35 pages
Concluding the Round
