Accession as Dialogue
Epistemic Communities and the World Trade Organization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12187337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa Toohey (0000-0003-2542-0004, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 397-418 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-24 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Leiden Journal of International Law (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0922-1565 • E-ISSN: 1478-9698 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0922156514000077 |
| OpenAlex | W2065870119 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) is viewed as a major step in the development of a state, and the commitments made by acceding states are often interpreted as a symbolic commitment to international economic and political community. However, as a subject of scholarship, WTO accession is under-theorized – there has been no sustained academic attempt to build a theory that accounts for the complexity of the accession process. Traditional, positivist approaches can point to increasingly onerous terms of accession, but fail to probe past Article XII's one-dimensional concept of ‘the acceding state’ negotiating with ‘the WTO’. This perspective dislocates the accession process from the broader political, economic, and legal reforms that involve both state and non-state actors. This article examines the role of these actors as epistemic communities, and argues that these epistemic communities engage in a series of dialogues about the nature of law and the legal system in the acceding state
Accession · Economics · International trade · Law and economics · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positivism · Scholarship · Sociology · State (computer science · Subject (documents · International Arbitration and Investment Law · International Development and Aid · Law · World Trade Organization Law
| Highly cited | No |
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