9781107004887

1107004888

1. Introduction / Thomas Cottier and Manfred Elsig

Part I. Setting the State: 2. The origins and back to the future: a conversation with Ambassador Julio Lacarte Muró; 3. After globalisation?: WTO reform and the new global political economy / Tony McGrew

Part II. Boundaries: 4. Internal measures in the multilateral trading system: where are the borders of the WTO agenda? / Marion Jansen; 5. Legitimising global economic governance through transnational parliamentarisation: how far have we come? how much further must we go? / Markus Krajewski

Part III. Emerging and established power: 6. Adapting to new power balances: institutional reform in the WTO / Amrita Narlikar; 7. Delegation chains, agenda control and political mobilisation: how the EU Commission tried to affect domestic mobilisation on the DDA / Bart Kerremans

Part IV. Weaker actors: 8. Developing countries and monitoring WTO commitments in response to the global economic crisis / Chad P. Brown; 9. Exploring the limits of institutional coherence in trade and development / Kent Jones

Part V. The Consensus Principle: 10. The WTO as a 'living institution': the contribution of consensus decision-making and informality to institutional norms and practices / Mary E. Footer; 11. Crisis situations and consensus seeking: adaptive decision-making in the FAO and applying its lessons to the reform of the WTO / Robert Kissack

Part VI. Quo Vadis? 12. A post-Montesquieu analysis of WTO / Steve Charnovitz; 13. Reforming the WTO: the decision-making triangle revisited / Manfred Elsig and Thomas Cottier; 14. Barriers to WTO reform: intellectual narrowness and the production of path-dependent thinking / Rorden Wilkinson.