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Does the World Trade Organization Promote Trade? An Empirical Assessment of Agricultural and Non‐Agricultural Trade Flows [PDF]
In this paper we ask whether the GATT/WTO has actually failed to increase members’ agricultural trade. Surprisingly, there is very little empirical econometric support to shed light on this question despite the fact that agricultural trade is often at ...
Boys, Kathryn A., Grant, Jason H.
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JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyses the European Commission's (Commission) capacity to manage and deepen the EU–UK relationship post the implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) and its efforts to expand its competencies within the framework, through the use of the principal–agent theory.
David Moloney, Simon Usherwood
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Is It Time to Re-think the WTO? A Return to the Basics [PDF]
The GATT was an organization that was seldom at the centre of political controversy, nor was it the object of virulent protest. The WTO, which succeeded it, however, has not enjoyed the GATT's anonymity. The controversies surrounding the WTO detract from
Kerr, William A.
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JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Literature on policy debates often analyses cases involving either a single or two policy fields, which typically result in stable equilibria, manifesting either as outright rejection of policy proposals, successful institutional change or the entrenchment of divisions into a deadlock.
Laure Gosselin +2 more
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Can Europe Sustain a New Rules‐Based Geopolitical Order?
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The European Union (EU) faces a unique opportunity to lead a new rules‐based international order in an era of American retreat and heightened global uncertainty. Yet its path to leadership is rife with obstacles. In this article, we draw on international relations literatures on international political economy and comparative politics ...
Kathleen R. McNamara, Federico Steinberg
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Options for World Trade Organization Involvement in Food Aid [PDF]
WTO members have presented diverse positions on food aid issues to the current round of negotiations on agriculture. Some members desire increased disciplines on food aid, while others are adamant that the WTO needs to fulfill past promises and meet the ...
Young, Linda M.
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The ‘Geopolitical Commission’: 40 Years in the Making?
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract In 2019, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen promised MEPs she would deliver a ‘Geopolitical Commission’ during the five years of her term in office, unbeknown that the COVID‐19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine were around the corner.
Robert Kissack
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From proposal to compromise: the TRIPS waiver debate and the crisis of WTO decision-making. [PDF]
Global HealthSyam N, Abbas MZ.
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Rose (2004) showed that the WTO or its predecessor, the GATT, did not promote trade, based on conventional econometric analysis of gravity-type equations of trade.
Myoung-jae Lee, Pao-li Chang
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Unreachable, Inescapable: Sustainable Development as Normative Camouflage in EU–MERCOSUR Trade
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how sustainable development functions as a mechanism of stabilising asymmetry in North–South trade governance, using the European Union (EU)–Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) agreement as a case study. Whilst sustainability is often framed as a normative good or institutional advance, the article shows instead how it ...
Asha Herten‐Crabb
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