Defending Interests
Public-Private Partnerships in WTO Litigation
1st Edition
Published on 25. November 2003
227 pages
978-0-8157-9622-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines the growing interaction between private enterprises and public officials to challenge foreign trade barriers. Building on more than one hundred interviews with former and current trade officials and private attorneys in the United States and Europe, Gregory Shaffer calls attention to the ways in which well-organized private parties are using the World Trade Organization's legal system to advance their own commercial ambitions, and how public officials increasingly are dependent on their assistance. Shaffer assesses the historical, political, legal, economic, and cultural factors that have affected the formation of these ad hoc public-private partnerships, as well as trends in the European Union toward U.S.-style practice. He considers the implications of these public-private trade litigation networks for the effectiveness and equity of the WTO system and the stability of U.S.-E.U. relations.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
978-0-8157-9622-0 (9780815796220)
DOI
10.5771/9780815796220
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Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Information
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- List of Acronyms
- The Blurring of the Public and the Private in International Trade Law
- Public-Private Partnerships in Theoretical Perspective
- The United States's Initial Partnership Edge in Opening Foreign Markets
- Is the EC Moving toward a U.S. Partnership Model?
- Why a More Aggressive U.S. Approach?
- Transatlantic Public-Private Partnerships
- The Social, Political, and Legal Implications
- References
- Index
- Back Cover
