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2. The "Missing Middle": Behind-the-Scenes Global Governance.
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Weiss, Thomas G. and Wilkinson, Rorden
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INTERNATIONAL organization ,NONGOVERNMENTAL organizations - Abstract
This article focuses on the vast number of people who make global governance happen. It probes the role of the unknown people in the "middle" who are largely absent from scholarly gaze: professionals, service teams, and others who act behind the scenes. They are not at the top of public and private organizations ("global governors" in the literature), but they keep the lights on. They accomplish the policy, operational, and support work to move the needle of global governance institutions of all varieties from the local to global. These largely invisible and unheard populations—at least in the scholarly and policy literatures—make global governance work. The "missing middle" is not confined to the everyday contributions of professionals in intergovernmental secretariats because contemporary global governance is not synonymous with international organization, but concerns networked forms of public authority that may or may not include secretariats or states. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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3. Reglobalizing trade: progressive global governance in an age of uncertainty.
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Scott, James and Wilkinson, Rorden
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INTERNATIONAL organization ,INTERNATIONAL trade ,UNCERTAINTY - Abstract
In this article we explore what a programme of 'reglobalization' could look like for the governance of global trade. Our focus is on the centrepiece of the current commercial order, the World Trade Organization (WTO). Our aim is to illustrate the potential value of a reformulated WTO not just for commercial relations globally but also for other areas of social concern. We seek to be both practical and challenging. We seek to be practical by establishing what a programme of WTO reform might look like in the near-to-medium term, including changes to the negotiating process and opening up the WTO to non-state actors. We seek to be challenging by setting the transformation of global trade governance within the context of a thorough process of reglobalization wherein the primary public mechanisms of global governance are reoriented towards the delivery of progressive social and environmental outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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4. The WTO in Buenos Aires: The outcome and its significance for the future of the multilateral trading system.
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Hannah, Erin, Scott, James, and Wilkinson, Rorden
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INTERNATIONAL trade ,INTERNATIONAL economic relations ,INTERNATIONAL cooperation ,BUSINESS enterprises - Abstract
The conclusion of the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Buenos Aires ministerial conference (10–13 December 2017) was immediately celebrated and derided in equal measure. For its supporters, Buenos Aires opened the way toward negotiations in e‐commerce, investment facilitation for development, and measures designed to help micro, small and medium sized enterprises (MSMEs). For its detractors, the meeting underscored the gridlock that continues to blight the WTO's negotiating function and underlined the organisation's declining credibility as a mechanism for governing global trade. In this paper we provide one of the first full length critical evaluations of the Buenos Aires conference and its outcome. In so doing, we offer answers to three questions. What accounts for such dramatically different assessments of the meeting's outcome? How should the outcome be interpreted? What is its significance for the future of the WTO and the multilateral trading system? We argue that the meeting's outcome was indeed significant. It has consolidated the process of reconfiguring the WTO's negotiating function; and it enables members to tackle more effectively a range of pressing economic and social issues as well as to navigate blockers and blockages in the negotiations. However, it also poses challenges for the WTO's poorest constituents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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5. The Globally Governed--Everyday Global Governance.
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Weiss, Thomas G. and Wilkinson, Rorden
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INTERNATIONAL cooperation ,INTERNATIONAL relations ,INTERNATIONAL agencies ,INTERNATIONAL law ,NONGOVERNMENTAL organizations ,INTERNATIONAL organization - Abstract
The purpose of this article is to establish the value of looking at global governance from the point of view of those who are governed, thereby making them more visible in a field in which they have often had too little profile. This is a necessary addition to an evolving global governance scholarship that seeks to highlight greater sensitivity to issues of complexity, time, space, continuity, and change. We explore recent advances in the literature emphasizing that, although much has been done to enhance global governance as an analytical endeavor, far more intensive efforts are required to reflect the everyday experiences of the globally governed. Three examples of everyday global governance are provided to illustrate how more meaningful research could be accomplished and the potential payoffs that could result. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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6. Past as global trade governance prelude: reconfiguring debate about reform of the multilateral trading system.
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Wilkinson, Rorden
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TRADE negotiation ,INTERNATIONAL trade ,COMMERCIAL policy ,INTERNATIONAL organization - Abstract
This paper peers backwards into the history of the multilateral trading system and its development over the past half century as a means of considering what may lie beyond the horizon for the future of global trade governance. Its purpose is to underscore the necessity and urgency for root-and-branch reform of the multilateral trading system. It achieves this by comparing and contrasting the global trading system of 50 years ago with its modern-day equivalent and its likely future counterpart half-a-century hence. In so doing, the paper throws into sharp relief not only the inadequacies of global trade governance today but also the damaging consequences of not fundamentally reforming the system in the near future, with a particular emphasis on the past, present and future development of the world’s poorest and most marginalised countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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7. What Kind of Civil Society? The Changing Complexion of Public Engagement at the WTO.
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HANNAH, Erin, JANZWOOD, Amy, SCOTT, James, and WILKINSON, Rorden
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CIVIL society ,POLITICAL participation - Abstract
Since the WTO's creation its relationship with civil society has changed significantly. In this article, we use an original dataset to: (1) plot the changes that have taken place in civil society group representation at the WTO Public Forum; and (2) assess the significance of these changes for understandings of public interactions with the WTO. We test four hypotheses drawn from prevalent claims made in the academic and policy-facing literatures: (1) that the volume of participation in the Public Forum is determined by the ebb and flow of WTO-centred trade politics, with participation levels peaking during moments of crisis and falling away during times of stasis; (2) that the stalling of the multilateral trade agenda has led to business interests turning away from the WTO; (3) that the participation of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the Public Forum is also sensitive to the rhythms of trade politics; and (4) that governments - particularly those from the global North - have begun to lose interest in the WTO and shifted attention to other arenas. We find support for hypotheses one and three but not for two and four. We subsequently analyse whose voices are heard at the Public Forum and find that there has been a narrowing of the arena of trade debate over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
8. Back to the future: 'retro' trade governance and the future of the multilateral order.
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WILKINSON, RORDEN
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INTERNATIONAL trade ,INTERNATIONAL cooperation ,TRADE negotiation ,COMMERCIAL treaties - Abstract
This article reflects on the role crises play in enabling existing systems of global economic governance to evolve and endure while also preserving underlying power dynamics. The article uses global trade governance as its case-study. Its aim is to explore the impact of the negotiating crises that beset the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Doha round of trade negotiations. The article traces how, over the course of the Doha round, periodic crises resulting from divergent pressures for opposing outcomes combined to preclude one set of institutional developments from resulting (those on which the Doha round had been launched and the basis upon which developing countries negotiated) while enabling others (those advanced by the leading industrial states). The result has been to usher in changes that have returned global trade governance to a form of system management more familiar to observers of the multilateral trading system of the 1970s.This 'retro' form of trade governance signals a departure from the more inclusive system that had emerged from the Uruguay round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and evolved during the WTO's early years, replacing it with a lither system of mini-lateralism more fit for industrial country purposes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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9. Reforming WTO-Civil Society Engagement.
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HANNAH, ERIN, SCOTT, JAMES, and WILKINSON, RORDEN
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CIVIL society ,SECRETARIATS ,FORUMS ,POLITICAL participation - Abstract
Civil society organizations are often seen as playing a crucial role in helping to mitigate the exclusion of weaker states, giving voice to marginalized communities, and raising environmental and developmental concerns within the trade system. The politicization and demystification of the global trade agenda by civil society also opens up space for a more diverse set of actors to influence trade negotiations. This article examines the evolution of the WTO secretariat's engagement with civil society within this context and argues that the dominant mode of engagement, as manifest in WTO Public Forums and civil society participation in ministerial conferences, is no longer fit for purpose. Rather it reflects an outmoded strategy that once served to underscore the existence and value of the WTO as an international organization and works to neutralize political contestation and publicly promote the benefits of free trade. It is now in need of reform. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2017
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10. Gridlock? Maybe.
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Wilkinson, Rorden
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- 2016
11. The WTO in Nairobi: The Demise of the Doha Development Agenda and the Future of the Multilateral Trading System.
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Wilkinson, Rorden, Hannah, Erin, and Scott, James
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INTERNATIONAL cooperation ,INTERNATIONAL trade ,COMMERCIAL treaties - Abstract
This article offers a full-length evaluation of the World Trade Organization's ( WTO) decisive December 2015 Nairobi ministerial conference. It examines the dynamics of the meeting, the emergence of a new negotiating mode, and the contestations between key developing and developed members; it explores the substance of the deal negotiated; and it reflects on the future capacity of the WTO to serve as a means of securing trade gains for developing and least developed countries. Three arguments are advanced. First, the use of a new mode of negotiating brought participation and consensus into the core of the Nairobi talks, but it also resulted in an agreement that moves away from the pursuit of universal agreements to one wherein more narrowly focused piecemeal deals can be brokered. Second, the package of trade measures agreed continues an established pattern of asymmetrical trade deals that favour developed members over their developing and least developed counterparts. Third, Nairobi alters fundamentally the likely shape of future WTO deals with significant consequences for developing country trade gains. The likely result is that while Nairobi will energise the multilateral system it will do so in a way that is of questionable value to developing and least developed countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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12. Conclusions: Emerging Powers in the WTO – Beware the Glass Ceiling.
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Wilkinson, Rorden
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EMERGING markets ,GLASS ceiling (Employment discrimination) ,TRADE negotiation ,INTERNATIONAL trade - Abstract
This concluding article argues that while the actions of emerging powers have left an indelible mark on the way multilateral trade is governed, they have not been able to disrupt to any significant degree the deeper structures of power that underpin the World Trade Organization (WTO). While emerging powers have proven to be important players in the Doha negotiations, particularly in the closing stages, they have ultimately come up against a glass ceiling that prevents their further rise. This ceiling is the product of a series of institutional factors that combine to facilitate alterations in the general arrangement of members one-to-another but which prevent deeper configurations of power from being disturbed. The result is that while we may have witnessed some changes in the multilateral trading system, these have been more akin to a rearrangement of the multilateral furniture than to a fundamental transformation of the system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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13. Zombies and IR: A Critical Reading.
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Hannah, Erin and Wilkinson, Rorden
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ZOMBIES in popular culture ,INTERNATIONAL relations ,ACTIVE learning ,TEACHING - Abstract
The zombie genre is quickly becoming a feature of International Relations (IR) classrooms and pedagogical toolkits as scholars enthusiastically embrace the undead as a vehicle for teaching the discipline. This article offers a cautionary note on a generally positive move to embrace the use of zombieism in IR. It shows how an uncritical use of a zombie apocalypse as a vehicle for teaching IR can reinforce existing divisions in the field, essentialise country positions, crowd out heterodox approaches, reinforce gender stereotypes and dehumanise people. To guard against these problems, the article shows how Zombie IR can be better used to think critically and normatively about world politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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14. Change and Continuity in Global Governance.
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Weiss, Thomas G. and Wilkinson, Rorden
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INTERGOVERNMENTAL cooperation ,HUMAN rights ,CRIME statistics ,TERRORISM ,NATIONAL security - Abstract
Why, despite well-established and well-publicized intergovernmental processes that date back to the early 1970s, have we been unable to put in place effective mechanisms to combat climate change? Why, despite the existence of extensive global human rights machinery, do we live in a world where mass kidnapping, rape, torture, and murder continue to blight the lives of so many? Why, despite a great deal of effort on the part of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and nonstate actors, have we been unable to make much of a difference to the lives of the ultra-poor and attenuate the very worst aspects of growing global inequalities? Most fundamentally, why have the current international system and the outcomes that it has produced remained so inadequate in the postwar period? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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15. Introduction: Drivers and Change in Global Governance.
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Weiss, Thomas G. and Wilkinson, Rorden
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INTERNATIONAL organization ,ENVIRONMENTAL protection - Abstract
An introduction is presented in which the author discusses topics within the issue including global governance and power politics, solutions for preventing degradation of global environment, and the Chinese development financing.
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- 2015
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16. The wto in Bali: what mc 9 means for the Doha Development Agenda and why it matters.
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Wilkinson, Rorden, Hannah, Erin, and Scott, James
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INTERNATIONAL cooperation on economic development ,POVERTY reduction ,INTERNATIONAL cooperation on commercial treaties ,INTERNATIONAL economic relations ,ECONOMIC conditions in developing countries ,TWENTY-first century ,INTERNATIONAL cooperation - Abstract
The conclusion of the World Trade Organization's (wto) ninth ministerial meeting – held in Bali 3–7 December 2013 – is at one and the same time momentous, marginal and business-as-usual. It is momentous because it marks the first multilateral agreement reached in the wto since the organisation began operations on 1 January 1995; it is marginal because the deal reached will have only a limited impact on the global trading system; and it is business as usual because the Bali package will be of disproportionally greater value to the industrial states than to their developing and least developed counterparts. We examine what happened in Bali, covering the principal issues at stake and the content of the outcome, what this means for the wto and for the Doha Development Agenda (dda), and why it all matters. We argue that, while the Bali ministerial is significant and the agreements reached important, the conclusion of the meeting and the package agreed represent only a limited movement forward in addressing the fundamental problems and inequities of the wto system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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17. Rethinking Global Governance? Complexity, Authority, Power, Change.
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Weiss, Thomas G. and Wilkinson, Rorden
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INTERNATIONAL organization ,INTERNATIONAL relations ,COMPLEXITY (Philosophy) ,AUTHORITY ,POWER (Social sciences) ,POLITICAL change ,POLITICAL science terminology - Abstract
Global governance remains notoriously slippery. While the term arose to describe change in the late twentieth century, its association with that specific moment has frozen it in time and deprived it of analytical utility. It has become an alternative moniker for international organizations, a descriptor for an increasingly crowded world stage, a call to arms, an attempt to control the pernicious aspects of globalization, and a synonym for world government. This article aims not to advance a theory of global governance but to highlight where core questions encourage us to go. A more rigorous conception should help us understand the nature of the contemporary phenomenon as well as look 'backwards' and 'forwards.' Such an investigation should provide historical insights as well as prescriptive elements to understand the kind of world order that we ought to be seeking and encourage us to investigate how that global governance could be realized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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18. Global Governance to the Rescue: Saving International Relations?
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Weiss, Thomas G. and Wilkinson, Rorden
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INTERNATIONAL relations ,INTERNATIONAL trade ,INTERNATIONAL organization ,INTERNATIONAL cooperation ,INTERNATIONAL economic relations - Abstract
International relations teeters on the edge of an abyss of irrelevance. As an academic pursuit, it has become disparate and fragmented. Those of us in the discipline have ceased to pursue greater clarity in the way that we understand the world around us. Moreover, we have failed as agents of change; that is, as purveyors of opinion and proposals about a better and fairer world order. As such, we no longer serve our students and those practitioners who seek our advice, or, for those of us who take on policy jobs, to push out the envelope of what is considered acceptable. Global governance offers one potentially compelling way of "saving international relations" though it is not without its problems. This article outlines how and why. The argument unfolds in three parts. The first outlines why and how IR teeters on the edge of an abyss. The second offers a proposal for moving beyond the fragmentation and atomization that afflicts international relations. We suggest that one way of encouraging reengagement is to return to debating grand questions that used to be the sustenance of IR. The third part argues that global governance--appropriately and specifically framed to make it fit for purpose--offers an opportunity to return to these questions and, in so doing, reinvigorate our fragmented and atomized field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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19. GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AL RESCATE: ¿SALVANDO LAS RELACIONES INTERNACIONALES?
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WEISS, THOMAS G. and WILKINSON, RORDEN
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INTERNATIONAL relations ,INTERNATIONAL cooperation ,POLITICAL science ,DIPLOMACY ,GLOBALIZATION - Abstract
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- 2014
20. China Threat? Evidence from the WTO.
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SCOTT, James and WILKINSON, Rorden
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CHINESE foreign relations, 1976- ,INTERNATIONAL relations ,INTERNATIONAL trade ,INTERNATIONAL economic relations - Abstract
The rise of China has elicited a voluminous response from scholars, business groups, journalists and beyond. Within this literature, a 'China Threat Theory' has emerged which portrays China as a destabilizing force within global politics and economics. Though originating in Realist accounts, this China Threat Theory has spread across to other approaches, and it increasingly forms the backdrop against which scholarly work positions itself. Our article contributes to this debate by examining China's role within the World Trade Organization (WTO). It assesses the extent to which China has been the disruptive power that it is often claimed to be. In particular, the article examines the change identified in Chinese diplomacy around 2008, and argues that this is attributable to the process of learning and socialization that China had to undergo as a new member, coupled with its elevation to a position of decision-making power. Contrary to the China Threat Theory, we find little to suggest that China has adopted an aggressive system challenging mode of behaviour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
21. GLOBAL CHANGE, SMALL ISLAND STATE RESPONSE: RESTRUCTURING AND THE PERPETUATION OF UNCERTAINTY IN MAURITIUS AND SEYCHELLES.
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Kothari, Uma and Wilkinson, Rorden
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INTERNATIONAL competition ,ISLANDS ,SOCIOECONOMICS ,FINANCIAL liberalization - Abstract
This article examines the forms of economic restructuring recently undertaken by Mauritius and Seychelles in response to recent changes in the global economy, which have a fundamental impact upon their socio-economic landscape. We argue that both Mauritius and Seychelles have recently embarked upon programmes that do not actually attenuate their exposure to the vagaries of international trade but continue a historic pattern of development that addresses ailing economic performance by refining and then replacing one small set of industries with another. The latest phase of restructuring is merely the most recent instalment in this pattern. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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22. Of Butchery and Bicycles: The WTO and the 'Death' of the Doha Development Agenda.
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WILKINSON, RORDEN
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INTERNATIONAL economic relations ,TRADE negotiation ,METAPHOR ,FINANCIAL liberalization - Abstract
The author discusses the Doha Development Agenda trade negotiation round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) as of April 2012, arguing that rhetorical methods used in trade negotiations have the potential to undermine those negotiations. According to the author, metaphors in trade commentary can inhibit the development of solutions to economic problems. Topics include trade liberalisation, the potential detachment of the WTO from the Doha negotiations, and the 1947 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
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- 2012
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23. The Poverty of the Doha Round and the Least Developed Countries.
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Scott, James and Wilkinson, Rorden
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INTERNATIONAL trade ,ECONOMICS ,INTERNATIONAL economic relations ,TRADE negotiation ,DEVELOPMENT economics ,DEVELOPING countries - Abstract
Two distinct literatures have emerged on the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda (DDA) and its likely benefits for developing countries. One is built on the use of computable general and partial equilibrium simulations, while another explores the political economy of the negotiation process to explore the opportunities a concluded round will bring for developing countries. Both literatures generate important insights into the DDA, and both highlight that the deal on offer to developing countries is very weak. However, there has been little engagement between these two bodies of thought. This paper seeks to begin to redress this, fusing a review of the simulations of likely DDA gains with an examination of the passage of the Doha negotiations. It argues that through this process we can arrive at a fuller understanding of how limited, and problematic, the results of the DDA are likely to be for the less developed countries. If the DDA is to deliver on its mandate, a qualitative shift in the negotiations is required. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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24. Measuring the WTO's Performance: An Alternative Account.
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Wilkinson, Rorden
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- 2011
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25. Colonial Imaginaries and Postcolonial Transformations: exiles, bases, beaches.
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Kothari, Uma and Wilkinson, Rorden
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BRITISH colonies ,MILITARY bases ,LEGITIMATION (Sociology) ,POSTCOLONIAL analysis ,PHILOSOPHY ,POLITICAL attitudes - Abstract
This article draws on Edward Said's notion of 'imaginary geographies' to explore how representations of small island states enabled particular colonial interventions to take place in the Indian Ocean region and to show how these representations are currently being reworked to support development strategies. It examines how particular colonial imaginaries justified and legitimised spatially and temporally extended transactions before focusing on two examples of forced population movements: British colonial policy of forcibly exiling anti-colonial nationalists and political 'undesirables' from other parts of the empire to Seychelles; and the use of islands in the region as strategic military bases, requiring the compulsory relocation of populations. While a colonising legacy pervades contemporary representations of these societies, such depictions are not immutable but can be, and are being, appropriated and reworked through various forms of situated agency. Thus an 'island imaginary' has become an important cultural and economic resource for small island states, most notably in the development of a tourist industry. The key challenge for vulnerable peripheral states is to create new forms of representations that contest and replace tenacious colonialist depictions to provide greater opportunities for sustained development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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26. What Happened to Doha in Geneva? Re-engineering the WTO's Image While Missing Key Opportunities.
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Scott, James and Wilkinson, Rorden
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TRADE negotiation ,AGRICULTURE ,DEVELOPING countries ,CONFERENCES & conventions - Abstract
This article offers an account and analysis of the World Trade Organization's (WTO) 7th Ministerial Conference – a meeting that, although ‘successfully’ concluded, failed to address a series of key issues in the increasingly moribund Doha Round of trade negotiations. We begin with an account of the meeting that offers an insight into the ‘colour’ of these biennial gatherings. The article then identifies and explores the primary consequences of pursuing an agenda designed not to focus on the core issues in the Doha Round but instead to ensure that the meeting is a ‘success’. Here we draw attention to the increasingly problematic nature of the Round's ‘development’ content, the thorny issue of agricultural liberalization and the problems posed for developing countries when their industrial counterparts pursue trade objectives through regional and bilateral means. In the concluding section, we consider the way forward for both the Doha Round and the WTO as an institution.Cet essai invité offre un compte-rendu et une analyse de la 7ème conférence ministérielle de l′Organisation mondiale du commerce, une réunion qui, bien qu’ayant été formellement conclue de manière « satisfaisante », n′a pas abordé les questions clés associées aux négociations commerciales du Cycle – de plus en plus moribond – de Doha. Nous commençons avec une description de la réunion même, afin de donner une idée de la tonalité de ces rassemblements bisannuels. Nous identifions et explorons ensuite les conséquences du fait que la conférence ait poursuivi un ordre du jour qui n′avait pas pour but de se pencher sur les questions fondamentales du Cycle de Doha, mais plutôt d′assurer que la réunion serait un « succès ». Nous poursuivons notre analyse en attirant l′attention sur la nature de plus en plus problématique du contenu des négociations du Cycle de Doha, le problème épineux de la libéralisation agricole et les problèmes rencontrés par les pays en voie de développement quand leurs partenaires industriels poursuivent des objectifs commerciaux par des moyens régionaux et bilatéraux. En guise de conclusion, nous considérons le futur du Cycle de Doha ainsi que de l′OMC en tant qu′institution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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27. Language, power and multilateral trade negotiations.
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Wilkinson, Rorden
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CRISIS rhetoric ,CONTENT analysis ,TRADE negotiation ,FRAMES (Social sciences) ,CONFERENCES & conventions - Abstract
Warnings that a breakdown in multilateral trade liberalization would bring about an upsurge in protectionist sentiment, the possible collapse of the multilateral trading system and, in the most doomsday of scenarios, the fragmentation of the global economy have been an intrinsic part of trade negotiations since the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was first negotiated. What is seldom acknowledged, however, is the role that this language of crisis and collapse--what might be called a 'crisis discourse' --has had on framing trade negotiations and in maintaining forward momentum in the liberalization process. This discourse has played a role in facilitating the kind of institutional development that the GATT and the World Trade Organization (WTO) has undergone--helping to push through bargains among GATT contracting parties and WTO members that have been (and remain) deeply asymmetrical--and driving the trade agenda forward at moments when the institution appears deadlocked; and it has continued to play a role in the current round of negotiations. The aims of the paper are twofold. First, the paper explores the content of the crisis discourse. Second, it examines the way in which the discourse has been deployed as a means of reframing trade negotiations in such a way that the likelihood of their continuation and ultimate conclusion increases. The paper does this by focusing on the collapse and resumption of the negotiations in the wake of the WTO's 2005 Hong Kong ministerial meeting, though the crisis discourse and its intensification at moments of intransigence has been a key feature of trade negotiations since the Allies first sat down to develop a trade architecture in the wartime and early post-war years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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28. The WTO in Hong Kong: What it really means for the Doha Development Agenda.
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Wilkinson, Rorden
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INTERNATIONAL trade ,INTERNATIONAL economic relations ,TRADE negotiation - Abstract
The article examines the World Trade Organization's ministerial conference in Hong Kong in mid December 2005. The aim of the meeting was to inject energy into an increasingly delayed and periodically fractious round of trade negotiations, the so-called Doha Development Agenda. The Hong Kong meeting was the first time trade ministers had gathered for a full conference since the collapse of the meeting in Cancun, Mexico.
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- 2006
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29. The international labour standards regime: a case study in global regulation.
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Haworth, Nigel, Hughe, Stephen, and Wilkinson, Rorden
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LABOR laws ,EMPLOYEE rights ,INTERNATIONAL business enterprises ,TRADE regulation - Abstract
The World Trade Organisation's (WTO) consistent rejection of proposals for the inclusion of a social clause into its existing rules and regulations has prompted the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to examine alternative ways in which global consensus on the regulation of labour standards can be developed. In this paper we map the failure of the social clause debate by reference to the outcome of successive WTO ministerials and we examine the role of executive leadership and related epistemic activity in the development of the international labour standards regime (ILSR). We conclude that the switch to a focus on a regime of core labour standards provides the most promising platform for progress in labour protection and an influential outcome in placing the lLO at the heart of attempts to integrate social policy into global economic governance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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30. Crisis in Cancún.
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Wilkinson, Rorden
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INTERNATIONAL trade ,NEGOTIATION ,ECONOMIC development - Abstract
In opulent surroundings, representatives of the World Trade Organization's (WTO) 146 member states met 10-14 September 2003 in Cancún to discuss progress in the so-called development round— officially the Doha Development Agenda— named after the meeting that launched the negotiations. Amid all the grandstanding, commentary, protests, proposals for ways forward, suggestions for institutional reform, and call for disbanding the WTO that inevitably accompany and follow such a meeting, a deeper and potentially more troublesome problem has been passed over.
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- 2004
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31. Collapse at the wto : a cancun post-mortem.
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Narlikar, Amrita and Wilkinson, Rorden
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CONFERENCES & conventions ,DEVELOPING countries ,CAPITALISM - Abstract
This article offers an analysis of the collapse of the WTO talks in Cancun in September 2003. It argues that the collapse of the talks should not be regarded as a victory for the developing world, as many have suggested. Rather, the collapse should be seen as the inevitable result of deep-seated tensions within the WTO's institutional framework, both in terms of the processes that underlie its working and the substance of its agreements. The article argues that these imbalances, if not corrected, will heighten the alienation of developing countries and work to the detriment of the legitimacy and survival of the WTO. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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32. Regulatory Change and Telecommunications Governance.
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Simpson, Seamus and Wilkinson, Rorden
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Drawing on perspectives from telecommunications policy and neo-Gramscian understandings of international political economy this paper offers an explanation and analysis of the shifting patterns of regulation which have been evident in the telecommunications sector in recent years. It aims to illustrate, explain and explore the implications of the movement of regulatory sovereignty away from the nation-state, through regional conduits, to global organisations in the crystallisation of a world system of telecommunications governance. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2002
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33. The World Trade Organization.
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Wilkinson, Rorden
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INTERNATIONAL trade - Abstract
Evaluates the World Trade Organization's (WTO) accomplishments after its emergence from the Uruguay Round in 1986-1994. Contributions to the growth in world trade; Coherence brought by the WTO in global economic policy making; Progress in the implementation of the Uruguay Round agreements; Public image of the WTO; Obstacles facing the WTO.
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- 2002
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34. The WTO in Crisis.
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Wilkinson, Rorden
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INTERNATIONAL trade ,INTERNATIONAL cooperation on commercial treaties - Abstract
Analyzes the failure of the Seattle Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization within the context of the evolution of post-war international trade regulation. Background on historical institutionalism; Components of the post-war system of economic management; Evolution of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
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- 2001
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35. Recasting Labor Diplomacy.
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Wilkinson, Rorden, Haworth, Nigel, Hughes, Steve, and Stigliani, Nicholas A.
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LABOR ,DIPLOMACY ,INTERNATIONAL relations ,FOREIGN relations of the United States - Abstract
Discusses the revitalization of labor issues within U.S. diplomacy in the era of globalization. Reasons for the resurgence of interest in labor diplomacy; Views on the role of the U.S. in the adoption of the new child labor convention by the International Labor Organization; Fundamental principles reaffirmed at the Declaration of Philadelphia.
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- 2001
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36. The Global Compact: Promoting Corporate Responsibility?
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Hughes, Steve and Wilkinson, Rorden
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SOCIAL problems ,SOCIAL responsibility of business - Abstract
Features the Global Compact initiative launched by the United Nations on July 26, 2000. Scope of the initiative; Factors affecting the ability of the initiative to promote corporate responsibility.
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- 2001
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37. Footloose and Fancy Free? The Multilateral Agreement on Investment.
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Wilkinson, Rorden
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INTERNATIONAL business enterprises ,INVESTMENTS -- International cooperation - Abstract
Provides a comprehensive overview of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) sponsored by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Proposed content of the Agreement; Tensions surrounding the negotiations; Environmental and social concerns raised by this issue.
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- 1999
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38. Labour and trade-related regulation: beyond the trade-labour standards debate?
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Wilkinson, Rorden
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INTERNATIONAL trade ,TRADE regulation ,INDUSTRIAL laws & legislation ,STANDARDS ,FREE trade ,COMMERCIAL policy - Abstract
As well as consolidating and enhancing the process of trade liberalisation, the completion of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations establishing the World Trade Organisation (WTO) formalised the expansion of multilateral trade regulation into areas of commercial activity previously deemed to be trade-related. This expansion, however, has been highly uneven, privileging the needs of capital, and to a much lesser degree land, over labour. Attempts to secure a degree of regulatory protection for labour in the legal framework of the WTO-by requiring that the Organisation's members adhere to a set of core labour standards when engaged in trade-producing activities-have so far failed. Both the Singapore (1996) and Geneva (1998) Ministerial Meetings of the WTO witnessed discussion of this issue, yet neither resulted in a comprehensive and satisfactory outcome for labour. That said, significant opportunity exists for the reconstruction of the trade-labour standards debate within the WTO. This article, seeks to demonstrate how this might be the case. In doing so, it first reviews the process of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)/WTO involvement in the regulation of trade-related areas. Second, it explores the current deadlock that characterises the issue of trade and labour standards within the WTO's legal framework as well as the more significant positions that have emerged among the Organisation's membership by focusing on British, US and EU involvement in this issue. Third, it identifies the reactions of certain key member states to the protests of civil society at the 1998 Geneva Ministerial Meeting of the WTO as the means by which the issue of trade and labour standards may once again be raised. And finally, it considers how the effective regulation of labour standards might be made within the confines of the WTO's legal framework by examining a range of options. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1999
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39. International labour standards and World Trade: No role for the World Trade Organization?
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HUGHES, STEVE and WILKINSON, RORDEN
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RULES - Abstract
Examines if and how a linkage could operate within the context of the World Trade Organization's (WTO) rules, and whether or not such a linkage is an appropriate foundation for future WTO-ILO (International Labor Organization) collaboration. Outcomes from the debate over trade and labour standards with particular reference to the December 1996 WTO Ministerial Declaration; Problems associated with WTO-regulated agreements.
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- 1998
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40. The WTO, Nairobi and the 2030 Agenda.
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Wilkinson, Rorden
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POVERTY reduction ,CONFERENCES & conventions - Abstract
The article discusses issues from the World Trade Organization's (WTO) 10th Ministerial Conference (MC10). Topics discussed include Nairobi, Kenya agreement related to the 2001 Doha Development Agenda, the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals, and a meeting of the United Nation General Assembly for the adoption of 2030 Agenda. Other topics include a chart on sustainable development goals to end the poverty.
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- 2016
41. Global Governance, for Whom?
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Wilkinson, Rorden
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- 2011
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42. Book reviews.
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Karim, Karim H., Pop, Liliana, Haslam, Jonathan, Bell, Duncan S.A., Ma, Sang‐Yoon, Kazmi, Zaheer, Mason, Steve, Grugel, Jean, Bacon, Edwin, Thomas, Raju G.C., Wilkinson, Rorden, Styan, David, Jones, Charles, and Lauzzana, Silvia
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Technology in international relations Stuart Cunningham and John Sinclair, eds., Floating Lives: The Media and Asian Diasporas ‐ Negotiating Cultural Identity Through Media, University of Queensland Press (2000), St. Lucia, Queensland, ISBN 0–7022–31223, AUS$ 29.95 (pbk). International Relations theory Oran R. Young, Governance in World Affairs, Cornell University Press (1999), Ithaca, ISBN 0–8014–8623–8, £16.99 (pbk). Richard Tuck, The Rights of War and Peace: Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant, Oxford University Press (1999), Oxford, ISBN 0–19–820753–0, £30.00 (hbk). Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Modernity, Polity Press (2000), Cambridge, ISBN 0–7456–2410–3, £14.99 (pbk). John Urry, Sociology Beyond Societies: Mobilities for the Twenty‐First Century, Routledge (2000), London, ISBN 0–415–19089–4, £16.99 (pbk). Immanuel Wallerstein, The End of the World as We Know It: Social Science for the Twenty‐First Century, University of Minnesota Press (2000), Minneapolis, ISBN 0–8166–2297–5, £21.00 (hbk). International security and strategic studies Victor D. Cha, Alignment Despite Antagonism: The US‐Korea‐Japan Security Triangle, Stanford University Press (1999), Stanford, California, ISBN 0–8047–3191–8, $49.50 (hbk). International politics Fred Halliday, Nation and Religion in the Middle East, Saqi Books (2000), London, ISBN 0–86356–044, £14.95 (pbk). Paul Havemann, ed., Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Australia, Canada and New Zealand, Oxford University Press (1999), Auckland, New Zealand, ISBN 0–19–558335–3, £45.00 (hbk). Sarah Owen Vandersluis and Paris Yeros, eds., Poverty in World Politics, Macmillan Press (2000), London, ISBN 0–333–71380, (pbk). Graeme Gill and Roger D. Markwick, Russia's Stillborn Democracy? From Gorbachev to Yeltsin, Oxford University Press (2000), Oxford, ISBN 0–19–924041–8, £16.99 (pbk). T.V. Paul and John A. Hall, International Order and the Future of World Politics, Cambridge University Press (1999), Cambridge, ISBN 0–521–658322, £15.95 (pbk). International political economy Linda Weiss, The Myth of the Powerless State: Governing the Economy in a Global Era, Polity Press (1999), Cambridge, ISBN 0745615813, £14.99 (pbk). Graham Dunkley, The Free Trade Adventure: the WTO, the Uruguay Round and Globalism ‐ a Critique, Zed Press (2000), London, ISBN 1–85649–769–0, £15.95 (pbk). International history Paul Gootenberg, ed., Cocaine: Global Histories, Routledge (1999), London, ISBN 0–415–19247–1 (hbk); 0–415–22001–7, (pbk). Nick Cullather, Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952–1954, Stanford University Press (1999), Stanford, ISBN 0804733112, £8.95 (pbk). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2000
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43. Book notes.
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Wilkinson, Rorden
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- ALONG the Domestic-Foreign Frontier: Exploring Governance in a Turbulent World (Book)
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Reviews the book `Along the Domestic-Foreign Frontier: Exploring Governance in a Turbulent World,' by James N. Rosenau.
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- 1999
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44. International Relations (Book Review).
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Wilkinson, Rorden
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- INTERNATIONAL Relations: A Concise Introduction (Book)
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Reviews the book `International Relations,' by Michael Nicholson.
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- 1999
45. Book notes.
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Wilkinson, Rorden
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- UNDERSTANDING Globalization: The Social Consequences of Political, Economic & Environmental Change (Book)
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Reviews the book `Understanding Globalization: The Social Consequences of Political, economic and Environmental Change,' by Robert K. Schaeffer.
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- 1999
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46. Towards a Multicultural Roshamon Paradigm in International Relations.
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Wilkinson, Rorden
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The article reviews the book "Towards a Multicultural Roshamon Paradigm in International Relations," by Stephen Chan.
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- 1998
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47. International Relations Theory Today.
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Wilkinson, Rorden
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The article reviews the book "International Relations Theory Today," edited by Ken Booth and Steve Smith.
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- 1996
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48. Book reviews.
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Wilkinson, Rorden
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- NEW World Order's Defining Crises, The (Book)
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Reviews the book `The New World Order's Defining Crises: The Clash of Promise and Essence,' by Carl G. Jacobsen.
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- 1997
49. The New Interventionism, 1991-1994/The United Nations at Fifty (Book Review).
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Wilkinson, Rorden
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- NEW Interventionism 1991-1994: United Nations Experience in Cambodia, Former Yugoslavia & Somalia, The (Book), UNITED Nations at Fifty, The (Book)
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Reviews the books `The New Interventionism, 1991-1994,' by James Mayall, and `The United Nations at Fifty: Retrospect and Prospect,' edited by Ramesh Thakur.
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- 1998
50. THE WTO AS AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION (Book Review).
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Wilkinson, Rorden
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INTERNATIONAL agencies ,NONFICTION - Abstract
Reviews the book 'The WTO As an International Organization,' edited by Anne O. Krueger.
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- 2000
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