Least Developed Countries and the WTO

Special Treatment in Trade
2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-26976-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 3747 g

Reihe: International Political Economy Series

A norm of special treatment for LDCs, created by the UN, has spread to various international organisations including the WTO. Within the WTO evidence of the institutionalization of the norm can be found both in the agreements and legal documents and the way in which the LDCs have been treated by other states. Helen Hawthorne investigates how norms impact on negotiations in international organisations. She shows that few studies of international organisations focus on the role of the weaker states in the organization, the majority focus either on the major states or the emerging economies. By ignoring the role of the poorer, weaker states in the GATT/WTO we are ignoring the history of these states in the organisation and do not get a true picture of the organization, how it operates in relation to them and their impact on the organisation.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hawthorne, H.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Internationale Organisationen und Institutionen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. The International Norm of Special Treatment for LDCs 3. LDCs in the GATT 4. Norm Institutionalization in the WTO 5. Case Study 1: Acceding to the Norm: LDCs Accession to the WTO 6. Case Study 2: Benefitting from Trade: Market Access and LDCs 7. Case Study 3: Cotton and the LDCs – the Litmus Test? 8. Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Helen Hawthorne is Visiting Lecturer at City University London, UK, where she completed her PhD in 2011. She has an MA in International Relations from the University of Kent and a degree in Business Studies from Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology (now the Robert Gordon University), both in the UK.