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A Needle in a Haystack? Human Rights Framing at the World Trade Organization for Access to COVID-19 Vaccines [PDF]

Health and Human Rights, 2020
How and why is implicit and explicit human rights language used by World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiators in debates about intellectual property, know-how, and technology needed to manufacture COVID-19 vaccines, and how do these findings compare with
Katrina Perehudoff, Heba Qazilbash, Kai Figueras de Vries   +2 more
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“Green Developmentalism” and the Role of International Law in Negotiating the Energy Transition

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Policy evolutions in North American and European capitals have prompted debates about ongoing shifts in global economic governance from a primary emphasis on promoting markets to a more extensive role for the state in steering economic relations.
Lorenzo Cotula
wiley   +1 more source

DID THE WTO PROMOTE GROWTH, TRADE AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN SOUTH ASIA? [PDF]

Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics, 2019
Many developing countries joined the WTO with the hope that using the platform will boost trade and thus will catch-up on the developed countries. South Asian countries were the founding member of the WTO and there were great expectations from the WTO in
Syed Hasanat SHAH, Hafsa HASNAT, Sarath DELPACHITRA   +2 more
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The tale of a Trojan horse or the quest for market access? China and the World Trade Organization

Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, 2014
In 2001, China finally joined the WTO. The accession of China was looked forward to by many WTO members and China itself. However, observers had some fears that the Chinese accession would prove to be a Trojan horse, disrupting the working of the WTO ...
Sven Van Kerckhoven, Adriaan Luyten
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Rebuilding the Ladder? Contemporary Contests Over Industrial Policy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Does the greater embrace of industrial policy globally signal the emergence of a New Washington Consensus? We show that the multiplication of industrial policies, while consequential, signals neither normalisation nor consensus. Rather, industrial policy is increasingly the object of contestation over norms and practices of state ...
Ilias Alami, Jack Taggart, Tom Chodor
wiley   +1 more source

Malaysia's Ambivalent Middle Power Status: A Global South Perspective From a Reconceptualised Geoeconomics

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article adds a geoeconomics dimension to the geopolitics‐focused middle power literature that generally depicts Malaysia as an ambivalent middle power, especially from the identity and behavioral perspectives, even if the country's middle power status stands on stronger capability indicators.
Helen E. S. Nesadurai
wiley   +1 more source

New Frontiers in EU Trade Policy: Moving Beyond Conventional Trade Agreements

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the rules‐based international trading system faces stagnation and increasing unilateralism, the European Union's trade policy must evolve beyond conventional free trade agreements (FTAs). This article examines recent trends in EU trade agreements, highlighting not only their expanded scope to include areas such as digital trade ...
Niall Moran
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of Trade Before and After the WTO: A Case Study of South Asia [PDF]

Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences, 2009
Trade stimulates economic growth as well as create employment. The basic principles (of the WTO) make the system economically more efficient and cut the production and marketing costs.
Rana Ejaz Ali Khan, Muhammad Ijaz Latif
doaj  

Paradigm Shift in the Making? Geopolitical Challenges and Institutional Changes in the International Monetary System: From Neoliberalism to a Pluralist Multipolar Financial Order

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examined the critical challenges facing the international monetary system, arguing that they have created conditions for a shift from a neoliberal framework to a pluralist multipolar financial order. Using an interdisciplinary approach that blends international law and international relations, the paper provides an analysis of the ...
Jiangyu Wang
wiley   +1 more source

An Ontological Security Interpretation of Global South Middle Powers' Non‐Alignment in the Ukrainian War

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores why a group of Global South middle powers has adopted stances on the Ukrainian war that diverged from the positions of the United States under President Joe Biden, the European Union and the broader NATO/Western alliance. I claim that these disparities are partially explained by the affiliation these states have with the ...
Marco Vieira
wiley   +1 more source