Susan K Sell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4258236 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan K Sell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan K |
| FAMILY NAME | Sell |
| SIGNATURE | SELL S K |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4935-6273 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 230 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
How do interests, ideas, and institutions affect multisectoral governance? The case of tobacco governance in two Pacific small island developing states
Multisectoral governance has been recognized to be vital to regulate harmful commodity industries, yet countries struggle with reaching policy coherence due to government agencies' conflicting mandates and industry interference. Limited empirical evidence is available on how interests, ideas, and institutions intersect and influence multisectoral governance in low‐ and middle‐income countries, particularly in Pacific small island developing state…
Authority in tobacco control in Pacific Small Island Developing States: A qualitative study of multisectoral tobacco governance in Fiji and Vanuatu
Our results highlight the need for terms of engagement with the tobacco industry to enable governments to implement multisectoral tobacco control measures. Expanding assistance on tobacco control among government and civil society actors and increasing messaging about the impact of economic, trade and agricultural practices on health are essential to help SIDS implement the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
Twenty-First-Century Capitalism: A Research Agenda
Twenty-first-century capitalism is fundamentally different from the neoliberalism of the late twentieth century. The prominence of finance, intellectual property (IP) protection, and digital platform businesses raises new regulatory challenges. Monopoly dominance has replaced market fundamentalism. This commentary proposes a research agenda for twenty-first-century capitalism in the interests of identifying, examining, and considering a range of …
St Century Capitalism and Innovation for Health
21st century capitalism undermines health outcomes in myriad ways. Structural economic changes have had negative effects on medical innovation and public health and are poorly aligned with social goals. Key features of the contemporary political economy include both monopoly capitalism, based upon stringent intellectual (IP) protection that suppresses economic competition, and Wall Street capitalism, or financialization, that prioritizes value ex…
St-Century Capitalism: Structural challenges for universal health care
The structural perspective outlined here sheds light on some of the fundamental challenges involved in achieving Universal Health Care (UHC) in this twenty-first-century era of trade and financialized capitalism. This commentary explores connections between the structure of twenty-first-century capitalism and challenges to achieving UHC, discussing three features of today’s capitalism: financialized capitalism; trade, intangibles and global value…
Health under capitalism: A global political economy of structural pathogenesis
This introduction to the special issue aims to conceptualize the structural and super-structural relations between global capitalism and health, incorporating both historical and contemporary capitalism. Capitalism is an all-encompassing global phenomenon that interacts with health at multiple scales and via a range of 'vectors' that analysts must engage, examine and understand. We highlight some of the key structural and institutional conditions…
Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates . By Adrian Johns
Who Governs the Globe?
Academics and policymakers frequently discuss global governance but they treat governance as a structure or process, rarely considering who actually does the governing. This volume focuses on the agents of global governance: 'global governors'. The global policy arena is filled with a wide variety of actors such as international organizations, corporations, professional associations, and advocacy groups, all seeking to 'govern' activity surroundi…
The rise and rule of a trade-based strategy: Historical institutionalism and the international regulation of intellectual property
One of the most dramatic instances of international market regulation in the twentieth century was the adoption of a multilateral, enforceable, intellectual property protection regime at the end of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in 1994. The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) ushered in a new era of high standards of intellectual property protection, requiring profound and costly domestic institutional ch…
Global Social Policy Forum: Intellectual Property and the Doha Development Agenda
Using Ideas Strategically: The Contest Between Business and NGO Networks in Intellectual Property Rights
Whose ideas matter? And how do actors make them matter? Focusing on the strategic deployment of competing normative frameworks, that is, framing issues and grafting private agendas on policy debates, we examine the contentious politics of the contemporary international intellectual property rights regime. We compare the business victory in the establishment of the 1994 Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property (TRIPS) in the World Trade Or…
Private Power, Public Law: The Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights
Susan K. Sell's book shows how power in international politics is increasingly exercised by private interests rather than governments. In 1994 the WTO adopted the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), which dictated to states how they should regulate the protection of intellectual property. This book argues that TRIPS resulted from lobbying by twelve powerful CEOs of multinational corporations who wished to m…
Moments in law: Contestation and settlement in the history of intellectual property
Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) are increasingly recognized as the key economic resource of the future. This has led to considerable discussion of the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) agreement which was brokered during the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations. In this article we present an analysis of a number of key 'moments' in the history of IPRs which eventually led to this particular agreement. We utilize a '…
National Diversity and Global Capitalism. Suzanne Berger , Ronald Dore
North-South Environmental Bargaining: Ozone, Climate Change, and Biodiversity
In the negotiations over the Montreal Protocol on the Ozone, India and China drove a hard bargain and secured unprecedented commitments from the industrialized countries to transfer resources, both monetary and technological, to help underwrite ozone-friendly development policies. The precedent of using environmental protection as a bargaining chip has informed deliberations on climate change and biodiversity, but it seems doubtful that governmen…
Intellectual property protection and antitrust in the developing world: Crisis, Coercion, and Choice
After the economic crisis of the early 1980s, developing countries adopted new policies regarding intellectual property protection only as a result of a coercive U.S. strategy, consistent with a neorealist explanation based on power. Targeted countries have complied only on paper, not in practice, however. In contrast, hegemonic powers have not employed overt coercion in the area of antitrust policy, consistent with interpretivist neoliberalism, …
The Origins of a Trade-Based Approach to Intellectual Property Protection: The Role of Industry Associations
How did the previously arcane, technical issue of intellectual property protection become elevated to the top tier of the U.S. trade agenda? A powerful coalition of private-sector industry associations, whose intellectual property constitutes increasingly valuable exports of goods and services, successfully lobbied for new domestic laws, and bilateral and multilateral negotiations linking intellectual property protection to international trade. T…
Using Ideas Strategically: The Contest Between Business and NGO Networks in Intellectual Property Rights
Whose ideas matter? And how do actors make them matter? Focusing on the strategic deployment of competing normative frameworks, that is, framing issues and grafting private agendas on policy debates, we examine the contentious politics of the contemporary international intellectual property rights regime. We compare the business victory in the establishment of the 1994 Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property (TRIPS) in the World Trade Or…
Health under capitalism: A global political economy of structural pathogenesis
This introduction to the special issue aims to conceptualize the structural and super-structural relations between global capitalism and health, incorporating both historical and contemporary capitalism. Capitalism is an all-encompassing global phenomenon that interacts with health at multiple scales and via a range of 'vectors' that analysts must engage, examine and understand. We highlight some of the key structural and institutional conditions…
Intellectual property protection and antitrust in the developing world: Crisis, Coercion, and Choice
After the economic crisis of the early 1980s, developing countries adopted new policies regarding intellectual property protection only as a result of a coercive U.S. strategy, consistent with a neorealist explanation based on power. Targeted countries have complied only on paper, not in practice, however. In contrast, hegemonic powers have not employed overt coercion in the area of antitrust policy, consistent with interpretivist neoliberalism, …
The rise and rule of a trade-based strategy: Historical institutionalism and the international regulation of intellectual property
One of the most dramatic instances of international market regulation in the twentieth century was the adoption of a multilateral, enforceable, intellectual property protection regime at the end of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in 1994. The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) ushered in a new era of high standards of intellectual property protection, requiring profound and costly domestic institutional ch…
Moments in law: Contestation and settlement in the history of intellectual property
Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) are increasingly recognized as the key economic resource of the future. This has led to considerable discussion of the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) agreement which was brokered during the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations. In this article we present an analysis of a number of key 'moments' in the history of IPRs which eventually led to this particular agreement. We utilize a '…
The Origins of a Trade-Based Approach to Intellectual Property Protection: The Role of Industry Associations
How did the previously arcane, technical issue of intellectual property protection become elevated to the top tier of the U.S. trade agenda? A powerful coalition of private-sector industry associations, whose intellectual property constitutes increasingly valuable exports of goods and services, successfully lobbied for new domestic laws, and bilateral and multilateral negotiations linking intellectual property protection to international trade. T…
How do interests, ideas, and institutions affect multisectoral governance? The case of tobacco governance in two Pacific small island developing states
Multisectoral governance has been recognized to be vital to regulate harmful commodity industries, yet countries struggle with reaching policy coherence due to government agencies' conflicting mandates and industry interference. Limited empirical evidence is available on how interests, ideas, and institutions intersect and influence multisectoral governance in low‐ and middle‐income countries, particularly in Pacific small island developing state…
North-South Environmental Bargaining: Ozone, Climate Change, and Biodiversity
In the negotiations over the Montreal Protocol on the Ozone, India and China drove a hard bargain and secured unprecedented commitments from the industrialized countries to transfer resources, both monetary and technological, to help underwrite ozone-friendly development policies. The precedent of using environmental protection as a bargaining chip has informed deliberations on climate change and biodiversity, but it seems doubtful that governmen…
Intellectual property protection and antitrust in the developing world: Crisis, Coercion, and Choice
After the economic crisis of the early 1980s, developing countries adopted new policies regarding intellectual property protection only as a result of a coercive U.S. strategy, consistent with a neorealist explanation based on power. Targeted countries have complied only on paper, not in practice, however. In contrast, hegemonic powers have not employed overt coercion in the area of antitrust policy, consistent with interpretivist neoliberalism, …
The Origins of a Trade-Based Approach to Intellectual Property Protection: The Role of Industry Associations
How did the previously arcane, technical issue of intellectual property protection become elevated to the top tier of the U.S. trade agenda? A powerful coalition of private-sector industry associations, whose intellectual property constitutes increasingly valuable exports of goods and services, successfully lobbied for new domestic laws, and bilateral and multilateral negotiations linking intellectual property protection to international trade. T…
North-South Environmental Bargaining: Ozone, Climate Change, and Biodiversity
In the negotiations over the Montreal Protocol on the Ozone, India and China drove a hard bargain and secured unprecedented commitments from the industrialized countries to transfer resources, both monetary and technological, to help underwrite ozone-friendly development policies. The precedent of using environmental protection as a bargaining chip has informed deliberations on climate change and biodiversity, but it seems doubtful that governmen…
National Diversity and Global Capitalism. Suzanne Berger , Ronald Dore
Moments in law: Contestation and settlement in the history of intellectual property
Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) are increasingly recognized as the key economic resource of the future. This has led to considerable discussion of the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) agreement which was brokered during the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations. In this article we present an analysis of a number of key 'moments' in the history of IPRs which eventually led to this particular agreement. We utilize a '…
Private Power, Public Law: The Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights
Susan K. Sell's book shows how power in international politics is increasingly exercised by private interests rather than governments. In 1994 the WTO adopted the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), which dictated to states how they should regulate the protection of intellectual property. This book argues that TRIPS resulted from lobbying by twelve powerful CEOs of multinational corporations who wished to m…
Using Ideas Strategically: The Contest Between Business and NGO Networks in Intellectual Property Rights
Whose ideas matter? And how do actors make them matter? Focusing on the strategic deployment of competing normative frameworks, that is, framing issues and grafting private agendas on policy debates, we examine the contentious politics of the contemporary international intellectual property rights regime. We compare the business victory in the establishment of the 1994 Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property (TRIPS) in the World Trade Or…
Global Social Policy Forum: Intellectual Property and the Doha Development Agenda
Who Governs the Globe?
Academics and policymakers frequently discuss global governance but they treat governance as a structure or process, rarely considering who actually does the governing. This volume focuses on the agents of global governance: 'global governors'. The global policy arena is filled with a wide variety of actors such as international organizations, corporations, professional associations, and advocacy groups, all seeking to 'govern' activity surroundi…
The rise and rule of a trade-based strategy: Historical institutionalism and the international regulation of intellectual property
One of the most dramatic instances of international market regulation in the twentieth century was the adoption of a multilateral, enforceable, intellectual property protection regime at the end of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in 1994. The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) ushered in a new era of high standards of intellectual property protection, requiring profound and costly domestic institutional ch…
Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates . By Adrian Johns
St-Century Capitalism: Structural challenges for universal health care
The structural perspective outlined here sheds light on some of the fundamental challenges involved in achieving Universal Health Care (UHC) in this twenty-first-century era of trade and financialized capitalism. This commentary explores connections between the structure of twenty-first-century capitalism and challenges to achieving UHC, discussing three features of today’s capitalism: financialized capitalism; trade, intangibles and global value…
Health under capitalism: A global political economy of structural pathogenesis
This introduction to the special issue aims to conceptualize the structural and super-structural relations between global capitalism and health, incorporating both historical and contemporary capitalism. Capitalism is an all-encompassing global phenomenon that interacts with health at multiple scales and via a range of 'vectors' that analysts must engage, examine and understand. We highlight some of the key structural and institutional conditions…
St Century Capitalism and Innovation for Health
21st century capitalism undermines health outcomes in myriad ways. Structural economic changes have had negative effects on medical innovation and public health and are poorly aligned with social goals. Key features of the contemporary political economy include both monopoly capitalism, based upon stringent intellectual (IP) protection that suppresses economic competition, and Wall Street capitalism, or financialization, that prioritizes value ex…
Authority in tobacco control in Pacific Small Island Developing States: A qualitative study of multisectoral tobacco governance in Fiji and Vanuatu
Our results highlight the need for terms of engagement with the tobacco industry to enable governments to implement multisectoral tobacco control measures. Expanding assistance on tobacco control among government and civil society actors and increasing messaging about the impact of economic, trade and agricultural practices on health are essential to help SIDS implement the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
Twenty-First-Century Capitalism: A Research Agenda
Twenty-first-century capitalism is fundamentally different from the neoliberalism of the late twentieth century. The prominence of finance, intellectual property (IP) protection, and digital platform businesses raises new regulatory challenges. Monopoly dominance has replaced market fundamentalism. This commentary proposes a research agenda for twenty-first-century capitalism in the interests of identifying, examining, and considering a range of …
How do interests, ideas, and institutions affect multisectoral governance? The case of tobacco governance in two Pacific small island developing states
Multisectoral governance has been recognized to be vital to regulate harmful commodity industries, yet countries struggle with reaching policy coherence due to government agencies' conflicting mandates and industry interference. Limited empirical evidence is available on how interests, ideas, and institutions intersect and influence multisectoral governance in low‐ and middle‐income countries, particularly in Pacific small island developing state…
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