TY - BOOK ID - 265137 TI - Trade policy flexibility and enforcement in the World Trade Organization PY - 2009 SN - 9780521761208 0521761204 9780511674570 9781107638181 0511674570 1107193664 0511739036 1107638186 9786612486470 0511674058 0511675240 0511673264 0511670710 1282486470 0511671997 9780511675249 9780511670718 9781107193666 9780511739033 9781282486478 6612486473 9780511674051 9780511671999 9780511673269 PB - Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Commercial law. Economic law (general) KW - Law of international organizations KW - World Trade Organization KW - Foreign trade regulation KW - Arbitration (International law) KW - Performance (Law) KW - Economic aspects KW - Economic aspects. KW - World Trade Organization. KW - Performance (Law). KW - Mora (Civil law) KW - Contracts KW - Debtor and creditor KW - Discharge of contracts KW - Extinguishment of debts KW - Export and import controls KW - Foreign trade control KW - Import and export controls KW - International trade KW - International trade control KW - International trade regulation KW - Prohibited exports and imports KW - Trade regulation KW - Arbitration, International KW - International arbitration KW - International political arbitration KW - Pacific settlement of international disputes KW - International commissions of inquiry KW - Jurisdiction (International law) KW - Mediation, International KW - Law and legislation KW - Biśva Bāṇijya Saṃsthā KW - Dėlkhiĭn Khudaldaany Baĭguullaga KW - DTÖ KW - Dünya Ticaret Örgütü KW - Munaẓẓamat al-Tijārah al-ʻĀlamīyah KW - O.M.C. KW - OMC KW - ʻOngkān Kānkhā Lōk KW - Organisation mondiale du commerce KW - Organização Mundial do Comércio KW - Organización Mundial de Comercio KW - Organización Mundial del Comercio KW - Organizația Mondială de Comerț KW - Organizzazione mondiale del commercio KW - Organizzazione mondiale per il commercio KW - Qaṅgkār Bāṇijjakamm Bibhab Lok KW - Sāzmān-i Tijārat-i Jahānī KW - Shi jie mao yi zu zhi KW - SOT KW - Světová obchodní organizace KW - Svitova orhanizat︠s︡ii︠a︡ torhivli KW - Światowa Organizacja Handlu KW - Tổ chức thương mại thế giới KW - Viśva Vyapāra Saṅgaṭhana KW - Vsemirnai︠a︡ torgovai︠a︡ organizat︠s︡ii︠a︡ KW - VTO KW - W.T.O. KW - Welthandelsorganisation KW - World Trade Organisation KW - WTO KW - منظمة التجارة العالمية KW - 世界貿易組織 KW - 世界贸易组织 KW - General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Organization) KW - Foreign trade regulation - Economic aspects KW - Arbitration (International law) - Economic aspects KW - Law KW - General and Others KW - Dispute resolution (Law) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:265137 AB - The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an incomplete contract among sovereign countries. Trade policy flexibility mechanisms are designed to deal with contractual gaps, which are the inevitable consequence of this contractual incompleteness. Trade policy flexibility mechanisms are backed up by enforcement instruments which allow for punishment of illegal extra-contractual conduct. This book offers a legal and economic analysis of contractual escape and punishment in the WTO. It assesses the interrelation between contractual incompleteness, trade policy flexibility mechanisms, contract enforcement, and WTO Members' willingness to co-operate and to commit to trade liberalization. It contributes to the body of WTO scholarship by providing a systematic assessment of the weaknesses of the current regime of escape and punishment in the WTO, and the systemic implications that these weaknesses have for the international trading system, before offering a reform agenda that is concrete, politically realistic, and systemically viable. ER -