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Judicial politics in international trade relations Universiteit Antwerpen
Judicial politics in international trade relations Universiteit Antwerpen
Cooperation in the shadow of WTO law Universiteit Antwerpen
In the current multilateral trade regime, members often negotiate under the shadow of WTO law. This article develops a formal explanation of the way in which the credible threat to resort to and the actual use of WTO litigation can influence multilateral trade negotiations. We contend that the ability to impose costs on a defendant by way of litigation increases the complainant's bargaining power, opening a bargaining window and ultimately ...
Leader or laggard? Political determinants of the EU's compliance with WTO dispute sttlement rulings Universiteit Antwerpen
De onderhandelingen over het Franco-Belgisch Verdrag van 1861 en de eerste onvoorwaardelijke most-favoured-nation-clausule in de Belgische handelspolitiek Universiteit Gent
In 1860, France and Great-Britain concluded the so-called Cobden-Chevalier commercial treaty, comprising the first unconditional most-favoured-nation clause in history. From an economic perspective, for a neutral country with a small, open economy, the most-favoured-nation clause and its potential for the liberalisation of international trade is to be welcomed. Notwithstanding, Belgian policymakers were not pleased with these new evolutions. ...
Boomerangs over Lac Léman Universiteit Antwerpen
In this article, we explore the conditions under which firms engage in transnational lobbying and foreign venue shopping in the framework of WTO dispute settlement. Classical World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement cases mostly originate in domestic firms instigating their public authorities to bring a complaint against foreign trade barriers incompatible with WTO law. In recent years, however, we have witnessed the rise of WTO cases ...
The domestic and global origins of transnational advocacy Universiteit Antwerpen
This article explains varying levels of transnational advocacy initiated by domestic organized interests. Theoretically, we integrate the constraining and enabling impact of the domestic context with factors related to global opportunity structures. We test our hypotheses with an original data set consisting of all national organized interests that attended the Ministerial Conferences of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in the period 1995 ...