Trends in World Trade

by Alexandroff, Alan S.

• ISBN13: 9780890897478
• ISBN10: 0890897476
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-01
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press

Summary

This volume examines the critical issues facing the global trading system today. As the title suggests, Trends in World Trade honors one of the world's great trade policy experts - Sylvia Ostry. Sylvia is recognized, as one of the quintessential trade and investment experts whose career spans public and academic service in Canada. The issues addressed represent central questions in the development of the international economy. It covers, among other things, institutional concerns such as the adequacy of World Trade Organization governance and its growing judicialization. This book examines the consequences for the global economy of China's admittance to the WTO. It also examines the consequences of continuing system friction - one of Sylvia Ostry's many contributions to our understanding of global trade relations. The contributors tackle global trade challenges from transparency to the matter of coherence, and from agricultural subsidies to the challenges of global investment. Additionally, as part of Professor Raj Bhala's Studies on Globalization and Society, this volume looks at the impact of international trade, finance and investment on states and their societies. Students of trade, trade experts, practitioners, and trade officials will find this volume a must-read for a better understanding of the trends in the global trade regime.

Author Biography

Alan Alexandroff is a Director of LECG and is the research Director of the Program on Conflict Management and Negotiation at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Sylvia Ostry's Life, Method and Thought on the International Stage	p. 3
The Rich Shall Inherit the Earth: Understanding the 2002 American Farm Bill	p. 15
A Tale of Two Reputations: A Comparative Analysis of the International Trade Actions of the United States and Canada	p. 49
Seen and Not Seen: System Friction and the Battle over Corporate Governance	p. 67
The Judicialization of Dispute Resolution at the World Trade Organization	p. 93
The Multilateral Trading System and Transparency	p. 105
Still Foggy after All These Years: Reform Proposals for the WTO	p. 133
The United States, China and the Rise of Asian Regionalism	p. 155
The Winter of Our Discontent: Challenges to the Multilateral Trade System	p. 181
The Quest for Coherence: Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will	p. 207
Mostly Dead: The Curious Fate of Investment Talks in the World Trade Organization	p. 219
Conclusion: Failing to Succeed; Succeeding to Fail	p. 239
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