CGDTE (Centre for Global Development Through Education)
https://dspace.mic.ul.ie/handle/10395/1802
2024-03-28T11:30:51ZReview of 'Behind the scenes at the WTO: the real world of international trade negotiations. By Fatoumata Jawara and Eileen Kwa.' (Pre-published version)
https://dspace.mic.ul.ie/handle/10395/2663
Review of 'Behind the scenes at the WTO: the real world of international trade negotiations. By Fatoumata Jawara and Eileen Kwa.' (Pre-published version)
The investigative work conducted by Fatoumata Jawara and Eileen Kwa in this illuminating book shatters the illusion that the one-member, one-vote system of governance within the World Trade Organization (WTO) makes it the most democratic of all intergovernmental institutions with a global mandate. The authors conducted research and semi-structured interviews with 33 Geneva-based missions to the WTO and with ten WTO Secretariat staff members between February and August 2002. Such detective work forms the basis of the book and gives lie to the claim that the current round of WTO negotiations represents a ‘Development Agenda’.
Review of 'Behind the scenes at the WTO: the real world of international trade negotiations. By Fatoumata Jawara and Eileen Kwa.'
2004-01-01T00:00:00ZReview of 'The nation-state in transformation: economic globalisation, institutional mediation and political values, edited by Michael Boss.' (Pre-published version)
https://dspace.mic.ul.ie/handle/10395/2662
Review of 'The nation-state in transformation: economic globalisation, institutional mediation and political values, edited by Michael Boss.' (Pre-published version)
This insightful, hugely diverse, and highly informative volume seeks to adopt a comparative approach principally to Denmark and Ireland, two small states that, prior to the onset of the 2008 global economic crisis, were portrayed as having successfully adapted to the processes of globalisation. The decision by the editor Michael Boss to adopt a comparative approach to the two states is a salutary one, as among the central premises of this volume is the contention that small states, and in particular small Northern European states such as Denmark and Ireland, have traditionally maintained their respective competitiveness by balancing open economies and flexible industrial policies within various forms of social partnership and welfare states. Superficially at least, the two states share strong similarities given howboth are geographically peripheral nations in the north-west of Europe, of similar geographical size and relatively ethnically homogeneous populations,with strong rural traditions. Additionally, both have been historically overshadowed by a more powerful, imperial neighbour.
Review of 'The nation-state in transformation: economic globalisation, institutional mediation and political values, edited by Michael Boss.'
2011-01-01T00:00:00ZReview of 'Making global trade work for people by United Nations Development Programme, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Foundation & Wallace Global Fund Earthscan & United Nations Development Programme.' (Pre-published version)
https://dspace.mic.ul.ie/handle/10395/2661
Review of 'Making global trade work for people by United Nations Development Programme, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Foundation & Wallace Global Fund Earthscan & United Nations Development Programme.' (Pre-published version)
This review of the multilateral trading system, the culmination of two and a half years of study undertaken by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and its co-sponsors, was published in January 2003, eight months before that system lapsed into paralysis. The report, which argues that trade liberalization must be utilized as a means of fostering human development, reads as a manifesto for the WTO Ministerial Conference which took place in Cancún, Mexico, last September. A week prior to the Cancún Conference, EU trade negotiator Pascal Lamy wrote that the WTO 'helps us move from a Hobbesian world of lawlessness, into a more Kantian world-perhaps not exactly of perpetual peace, but at least one where trade relations are subject to the rule of law'.
Review of 'Making global trade work for people by United Nations Development Programme, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Foundation & Wallace Global Fund Earthscan & United Nations Development Programme.'
2004-01-01T00:00:00ZThe role of trade and the WTO in ensuring food security
https://dspace.mic.ul.ie/handle/10395/2660
The role of trade and the WTO in ensuring food security
This article seeks to examine the role of trade and specifically that of the WTO (World Trade Organization) in ensuring, or otherwise, food security and fulfilling one of the Millennium Development Goals’ objectives of halving world hunger by 2015. It highlights the impact of the WTO agreement on trade-related intellectual property rights (TRIPs) on the domestic regulatory and legislative framework of WTO members. The article also draws attention to the implications that TRIPs may have for future food security and examines briefly the Indian sub-continent where the impact of the food security-related provisions of the agreement have been greatly contested. By following such an approach it may be possible to illuminate the dangers and pitfalls in TRIPs, but also instances where amendments to and flexibilities within TRIPs can be utilised by WTO member states in order to enhance their citizens’ food security.
The role of trade and the WTO in ensuring food security.
2010-01-01T00:00:00Z