Reforming WTO-Civil Society Engagement

Hannah, Erin; Scott, James; Wilkinson, Rorden

doi:10.1017/s1474745616000446

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“…Most of the international organizations including the WTO have allowed the civil society organization to participate in their decision-making process. In fact, the entry of civil society into this arena can be considered as one of the distinctive features of the existing international order in comparison with previous orders (Hannah, Scott & Wilkinson, 2017).…”

Section: The Growing Role Of Non-governmental Organizations In the De...mentioning

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Global Trade Governance and WTO: Beyond the Model of the Club

Ababakr¹

2022

ASS

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Global governance primarily focuses on the management and governance of global affairs that are beyond the ability of the state to solve through formal and informal interactions between local, national, regional, and international actors. The post-cold war era can be called the golden age of the process of global governance. This process has significantly broadened to include more diverse players, networks, institutions, regimes, and mechanisms that apply distributive or regulatory functions that have transnational effects. In parallel with this the global trade governance, which includes the group of bilateral, regional and multilateral international agreements, at times with the institutions that regulate the international rules concerned trade, has widened significantly in the 19th century and onward. The evolution of the WTO is corresponding to these essential changes in the order in global trade governance. Therefore, this article examines the effect of the process of global governance on the WTO and the evolving factors of change in the nature of this organization. According to the author's argument, growing role of the civil society organizations, the redistribution of power, opposition to free trade, the proliferation of preferential trade, differences in the views on goals and functions, have led to the fact that, the nature of the WTO has shifted from the cluster of developed countries to a global organization.

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Section: The Growing Role Of Non-governmental Organizations In the De...mentioning

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Global Trade Governance and WTO: Beyond the Model of the Club

Ababakr¹

2022

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“…Nevertheless, the IO underwent other types of organizational reforms that could be interpreted as changes in the institutional capacity in a wider sense. The respective reforms have been the subject of extensive scholarly and political debates (e.g., Elsig, 2007;Bernstein and Hannah, 2008;Jones, 2009;Steger, 2009;Wilkinson, 2014;Hannah et al, 2017). As one of the more comprehensive proposals, the so-called Sutherland Report from 2011 outlines how the WTO can address future challenges.…”

Section: Wto: Internal Consequencesmentioning

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Global Legitimacy Crises

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Zelli

et al. 2022

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This book addresses the consequences of legitimacy in global governance, in particular asking: when and how do legitimacy crises affect international organizations (IOs) and their capacity to rule. The book starts with a new conceptualization of legitimacy crisis that looks at public challenges from a variety of actors. Based on this conceptualization, it applies a mixed-methods approach to identify and examine legitimacy crises, starting with a quantitative analysis of mass media data on challenges of a sample of 32 IOs. It shows that some, but not all organizations have experienced legitimacy crises, spread over several decades from 1985 to 2020. Following this, the book presents a qualitative study to further examine legitimacy crises of two selected case studies: the WTO and the UNFCCC. Whereas earlier research assumed that legitimacy crises have negative consequences, the book introduces a theoretical framework that privileges the activation inherent in a legitimacy crisis. It holds that this activation may not only harm an IO, but could also strengthen it, in terms of its material, institutional, and decision-making capacity. The following statistical analysis shows that whether a crisis has predominantly negative or positive effects depends on a variety of factors. These include the specific audience whose challenges define a certain crisis, and several institutional properties of the targeted organization. The ensuing in-depth analysis of the WTO and the UNFCCC further reveals how legitimacy crises and both positive and negative consequences are interlinked, and that effects of crises are sometimes even visible beyond the organizational borders.

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“…In this way, the WTO differs from other international organizations, and it potentially could do more to develop new means of interaction with the WTO secretariat and member representatives. 108 Structures can be developed outside the WTO for such engagement on privacy issues, involving information exchange, peer review, and norm development to address privacy concerns. But the WTO committee system also can be engaged in coordination with such other international bodies.…”

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Trade Law in a Data-Driven Economy: The Need for Modesty and Resilience

Shaffer

2021

World Trade Review

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This article examines the social challenges posed by the data-driven economy, their implications for international trade law, the current trade negotiating context involving distinct models advanced by the United States, European Union, and China, and a way forward that can both enhance trade and regulatory efficacy. It examines seven interrelated risks. They are the rise of ‘winner-take-all’ companies; social control through public and private surveillance; social polarization; premature deindustrialization; national security threats; cybersecurity risks; and threats to personal privacy. In response to these risks, the article contends that trade agreements should be deferential to national regulation, while supporting mechanisms for regulatory learning and adaptation. In this spirit, the article advances a governance framework that goes beyond ‘liberalization' and that foregrounds the importance of building resilience and engaging in regulatory problem solving.

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Reforming WTO-Civil Society Engagement

Cited by 10 publications

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Global Trade Governance and WTO: Beyond the Model of the Club

Global Trade Governance and WTO: Beyond the Model of the Club

Global Legitimacy Crises

Trade Law in a Data-Driven Economy: The Need for Modesty and Resilience

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