Governing the World Trade Organization

Manfred Elsig is Assistant Professor in International Relations at the World Trade Institute at the University of Bern. Thomas Cottier is Managing Director of the World Trade Institute and Professor of European and International Economic Law at the University of Bern.

'… another useful and interesting examination of the sick patient called the WTO.' Nikolaos Lavranos, The Common Market Law Review

• 1. Introduction Thomas Cottier and Manfred Elsig; 2. The origins and back to the future: a conversation with Ambassador Julio Lacarte; 3. After globalization? WTO reform and the new global political economy Tony McGrew; 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; 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 tries to affect domestic mobilisation on the DDA Bart Kerremans; 8. Developing countries and monitoring WTO commitments in response to the global economic crisis Chad Bown; 9. Exploring the limits of institutional coherence in trade and development Kent Jones; 10. The WTO as a 'living instrument': the contribution of consensus decision-making and informality to institutional norms and practices Mary 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; 12. A post-Montesquieu analysis of the 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.