The Oxford Handbook on The World Trade Organization

Dr Amrita Narlikar is the Director of the Centre for Rising Powers, and Reader in International Political Economy at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. She is also a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge. Her most recent books included New Powers: How to Become One and How to Manage Them, New York: Columbia University Press, London: Hurst, 2010 and (ed) Deadlocks in Multilateral Negotiations: Causes and Solutions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.Professor Martin Daunton works on the history of economic and social policy, most recently with respect to taxation, and is currently completing a book on the economic government of the world since the Second World War. He is Professor of Economic History in the University of Cambridge and Master of Trinity Hall.Robert M. Stern has published numerous articles and books over the years in international trade and finance. His current research focuses on issues of WTO governance and related social policies. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan and currently a Visiting Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC-Berkeley.

• PART I: THEORY OF MULTILATERAL TRADE LIBERALIZATION; PART II: INSTITUTIONAL EVOLUTION: BUILDING UP THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION; PART III: THE PROCESS BEHIND THE WORKINGS OF THE WTO; PART IV: AGENCY IN THE WTO; PART V: THE SUBSTANCE OF THE AGREEMENTS; PART VI: IMPLEMENTATION AND ENFORCEMENT; PART VII: CHALLENGES TO THE SYSTEM; PART VIII: ETHICAL ISSUES; PART IX: REFORM OF THE WTO AND GLOBAL ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE

...this Handbook should be regarded as a feat of great editorship, which is especially remarkable given the pluralistic array of contributors-both in disciplinary and geographic terms.