Defending Interests
Public-Private Partnerships in WTO Litigation- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2003
Summary
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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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2003
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-8157-7830-1
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-8157-9622-0
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 229
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Table of Contents No access
- Preface No access
- List of Acronyms No access
- The Blurring of the Public and the Private in International Trade Law No access Pages 1 - 9
- Public-Private Partnerships in Theoretical Perspective No access Pages 10 - 18
- The United States's Initial Partnership Edge in Opening Foreign Markets No access Pages 19 - 64
- Is the EC Moving toward a U.S. Partnership Model? No access Pages 65 - 101
- Why a More Aggressive U.S. Approach? No access Pages 102 - 125
- Transatlantic Public-Private Partnerships No access Pages 126 - 142
- The Social, Political, and Legal Implications No access Pages 143 - 200
- References No access Pages 201 - 216
- Index No access Pages 217 - 229





