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v Contents Foreword by julio lacarte muró vii Acknowledgements xiii List of Acronyms xvii PART I Why Institutional Reform Is Necessary 1. Why Institutional Reform of the WTO Is Necessary debra steger 3 2. Reinvigorating Debate on WTO Reform: The Contours of a Functional and Normative Approach to Analyzing the WTO System carolyn deere birkbeck 11 PART II Decision-Making in the WTO 3. A Two-Tier Approach to WTO Decision-Making thomas cottier 43 4. WTO Decision-Making: Can We Get a Little Help from the Secretariat and the Critical Mass? manfred elsig 67 5. Improvements to the WTO Decision-Making Process: Lessons from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank alberto alvarez-jiménez 91 PART III Internal Management of the WTO 6. Internal Management of the WTO: Room for Improvement debra steger and natalia shpilkovskaya 129 PART IV Transparency and Domestic Consultation 7. From the Periphery to the Centre? The Evolving WTO Jurisprudence on Transparency and Good Governance padideh ala’i 165 8. Selective Adaptation of WTO Transparency Norms and Local Practices in China and Japan ljiljana biukoviç 193 9. Domestic Politics and the Search for a New Social Purpose of Governance for the WTO: A Proposal for a Declaration on Domestic Consultation seema sapra 219 10. Enhancing Business Participation in Trade Policy-Making: Lessons from China heng wang 257 PART V Public Participation 11. Options for Public Participation in the WTO: Experience from Regional Trade Agreements yves bonzon 287 12. Non-Governmental Organizations and the WTO: Limits to Involvement? peter van den bossche 309 PART VI Regional Trade Agreements and the WTO 13. Accommodating Developing Countries in the WTO: From Mega-Debates to Economic Partnership Agreements gerhard erasmus 363 14. Saving the WTO from the Risk of Irrelevance: The WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism as a ‘Common Good’ for RTA Disputes henry gao and chin leng lim 389 15. Regional Trade Agreements and the WTO: The Gyrating Gears of Interdependence pablo heidrich and diana tussie 417 Bibliography 437 Contributors 455 Index 461 vi Contents ...

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