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The Dynamics of Negotiations on Trade and Development under the Doha Development Agenda : An International Political Economic View

초록/요약

As with any other trade related issues, the development issue is also a part of the negotiation in the international trade regime: with the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Most of these development related issues are categorized as non-essential issues which are only negotiated at the technical level. However, the development aspect itself has a very wide dimension and is thus often linked to many issues, including the essential issues which are negotiated not only at the technical level, but also at the political level: at the Ministerial Conferences. Those development issues, especially the Special and Differential Treatment for the Developing States, are often be used by the developing members to get a better bargaining position with the developed members. How the issue is negotiated in the WTO is framed by the International Political Economic view in this thesis. The classical debate between realism-mercantilism and liberalism is used in analysing the dynamics of the negotiation. The debate between those two views is manifested into the contradiction between the developing countries, and supported by the WTO’s basic norms and value on the one side and the developed states on the other side. This debate however results the condition when the developed states tried to impose their mercantilist steps to the organization, the negotiation ended up in deadlock. As the inverse, when all the parties within the negotiation have the same views or can take some benefits from the negotiation, deadlock does not appear and this implies to a more fruitful negotiation. The current development of the negotiation has showed the trend where the progress is going with the liberal principles. It may be seen on how the parties are constructing the same views about the organization and hopefully could generate common benefits to all parties.

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I. Introduction 1
I.1. Background 1
I.2. Methodology 5
I.3. Structure of the Thesis 5
II. Literature Review 7
II.1. Mercantilism and Liberalism 7
II.2. Relations between Trade and Development 10
II.3. Multilateral Negotiations 13
III. Progress of the Negotiation 17
III.1. Pre-2001 17
III.2. 2001-2005 19
III.3. Post-2005 24
IV. Evaluation and Analysis of the Negotiation 27
IV.1. Evaluation 27
IV.2. Analysis 32
V. Conclusion 35
Bibliography 37

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