This book explores the reasons for the collapse of World Trade
Organization (WTO) meetings (as in Seattle in 1999 and Cancun in
2003) and the political conflicts that arose therein. Drawing from
a body of literature concerned with how and why institutions emerge
and change, and an analysis of the development of multilateral
trade regulation that stretches from the creation of the General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1947 to the WTO's Hong
Kong ministerial meeting in December 2005, the book argues that the
political conflicts played out during ministerial meetings are the
inevitable product of the way the institution was created and has
since developed. It argues that the specific purposes for which
multilateral trade regulation was created built into the
institution an asymmetry of economic opportunity that has been
extended and amplified through time. This asymmetry has come to
shape the interaction of member states in such a way that
contestation over the shape and direction of the trade agenda - and
on occasion the collapse of a ministerial meeting - are inevitable
consequences. However, the rather than significantly disrupting the
development of the multilateral trade regulation, the book explains
why the collapse of ministerial meetings may actually have helped
take it forward.
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