1st Edition

Multilateralism and the World Trade Organisation The Architecture and Extension of International Trade Regulation

By Rorden Wilkinson Copyright 2000

    This book explores the significance of the establishment of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), as well as some of the issues brought into sharper focus by the Seattle demonstrations of 1999. Located within the broader study of global governance, Multilateralism and the World Trade Organisation offers a critical examination of the legal framework of the WTO. The book uncovers a series of discriminatory practices embedded in the WTO's legal framework, which act to the disadvantage of smaller, developing and transitional states.

    1. Introduction
    Part I. The Architecture of Multilateralism
    2. The Institutional Evolution of International Trade Regulation
    3. Multilateralism: The Architecture of International Trade Regulation
    Part II. The Extension of Multilateralism
    4. The World Trade Organisation
    5. Non-Discrimination and the WTO
    6. Trade Barrier Reduction and the WTO
    7. Dispute Settlement and the WTO
    8. Multilateralism and the WTO

    Biography

    Rorden Wilkinson