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The WTO in crisis: exploring the dimensions of institutional inertia
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posted on 2023-06-08, 19:44 authored by Rorden WilkinsonThe failure of the Seattle Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to launch a much hyped Millennium Round of trade negotiations has attracted a good deal of journalistic and scholarly comment. Beyond this, some debate exist as to whether the WTO also ought to deal with pushing the trade agenda forward as well as addressing a range of social and environmental issues. A different reading of the sources of the WTO's current inertia is offered by placing Seattle within the context of the evolution of post-war international trade regulation. Utilizing an analytical framework extracted from comparative and international politics - historical institutionalism - it argues that the roots of the WTO's intertia lie not with The Seattle Ministerial Meeting, nor even with the post-Uruguay era, but with the creation of institutionalized trade regulation in the post-war period.
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Journal of World TradeISSN
1011-6702Publisher
Kluwer Law InternationalIssue
3Volume
35Page range
397-419Department affiliated with
- International Relations Publications
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2015-01-26Usage metrics
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