International Economic Regulation

Contents: Four Contrasting Perspectives: Globalization and inequality, Andrew Hurrell and Ngaire Woods; The global age: from a sceptical South to a fearful North, Jagdish Bhagwati; Reflections on constitutional changes to the global trading system, John Jackson; Fragmented states and international rules of law, Sol Picciotto. Regulating International Finance and Investment: Regulating global financial markets, Sol Picciotto and Jason Haines; Capitalism's last chance?, George Soros; The articles of agreement of the IMF and the liberalization of capital movements, Jacques J. Polak; The political economy of a bilateral investment treaty, Kenneth J. Vandervelde; The constitutional strictures of the multilateral agreement on investment, David Schneiderman. The Multilateral Development Banks: The World Bank at the new millennium, Joseph E. Stiglitz; The political economy of the World Bank's legal framework for economic development, Lawrence Tshuma; Evolution of the governing law for loan agreements of the World Bank and other multilateral development banks, John W. Head. The World Trade Organization: The great 1994 sovereignty debate: United States acceptance and implementation of the Uruguay Round results, John H. Jackson; Rethinking liberalization and reforming the WTO, Martin Khor; Assessing the General Agreement on Trade in Services: half full or half empty?, Pierre Sauve; GATS and the Millennium Round of multilateral negotiations, Neela Mukherjee; How the World Trade Organization is shaping domestic policies in health care, David Price, Allyson M. Pollock and Jean Shaoul; The WTO Trips Agreement and global economic development, Frederick M. Abbott; Intellectual property rights and indigenous knowledge of biodiversity in Asia, Antonio G.M. La Vina. New Issues: The dilemma of regulating international competition under the WTO system, Ignacio De León; Putting worker and trade union rights in the WTO?, Gerard Greenfield; The fair trade-free trade debate: trade, labour and the environment, Robert Howse and Michael Trebilcock. Legitimacy and Sovereignty: The domain of WTO dispute resolution, Joel P. Trachtman; Is the WTO open and transparent?, Gabrielle Marceau and Peter N. Pedersen; Global civil society: perspectives, initiatives, movements, Richard Falk; Global economic policy-making: a new constitutionalism?, Jane Kelsey; Name index.