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Trade Policy Flexibility and Enforcement in the WTO
Simon A. B. Schropp
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Description for Trade Policy Flexibility and Enforcement in the WTO
Paperback. This critical analysis of contractual escape and punishment in the WTO proposes a politically realistic and systemically viable reform agenda. Series: Cambridge International Trade and Economic Law. Num Pages: 380 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KCL; LBBM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 524.
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an incomplete contract among sovereign countries. Trade policy flexibility mechanisms are designed to deal with contractual gaps, which are the inevitable consequence of this contractual incompleteness. Trade policy flexibility mechanisms are backed up by enforcement instruments which allow for punishment of illegal extra-contractual conduct. This book offers a legal and economic analysis of contractual escape and punishment in the WTO. It assesses the interrelation between contractual incompleteness, trade policy flexibility mechanisms, contract enforcement, and WTO Members' willingness to co-operate and to commit to trade liberalization. It contributes to the body of WTO scholarship by ... Read more
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an incomplete contract among sovereign countries. Trade policy flexibility mechanisms are designed to deal with contractual gaps, which are the inevitable consequence of this contractual incompleteness. Trade policy flexibility mechanisms are backed up by enforcement instruments which allow for punishment of illegal extra-contractual conduct. This book offers a legal and economic analysis of contractual escape and punishment in the WTO. It assesses the interrelation between contractual incompleteness, trade policy flexibility mechanisms, contract enforcement, and WTO Members' willingness to co-operate and to commit to trade liberalization. It contributes to the body of WTO scholarship by ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge International Trade and Economic Law
Number of Pages
380
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107638181
SKU
V9781107638181
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About Simon A. B. Schropp
Simon Schropp is an International Trade Policy Analyst for Sidley Austin LLP, a leading law firm in international trade law and WTO litigation. He has previously worked for the WTO Secretariat and as a research fellow investigating legal and economic issues of the WTO.
Reviews for Trade Policy Flexibility and Enforcement in the WTO
'Do WTO agreements allow for 'efficient breach?' What purpose is served by WTO instruments regarding flexibility and escape? Are these instruments structured as well as possible? These are the central themes that Schropp examines in this important study. Scholars and policymakers alike will find his analysis valuable and illuminating.' Alan O. Sykes, Stanford University 'First-rate economists and trade lawyers have ... Read more