Continuity and Change in the World Trade Organization: Pluralism Past, Present, and Future

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Howse, Robert; Langille, Joanna
• 署名单位: New York University; Western University (University of Western Ontario)
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-9300
• DOI: 10.1017/ajil.2022.82
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 1-47
• 关键词: DISPUTE SETTLEMENT; WTO; TARIFFS; POWER

摘要

The World Trade Organization is at an important institutional crossroads, buffeted by critique and with its once-heralded dispute system in doubt. Despite some achievements at the 2022 MC12 Ministerial Conference, the WTO appears in crisis, without a strong institutional mandate. In this Article, we offer a vision for its future, rooted in a particular interpretation of its past. The WTO's legal architecture is characterized by a resilient pluralism, which seeks to preserve diversity of governance models and regulatory approaches, both economic and political, in the domestic orders of member states. Despite strong pressures to impose a neoliberal vision of the state-market relationship on states, this pluralism has persevered; it offers a response to the WTO's critics and a mandate for the WTO's future.