Judicial Politics and International Cooperation: From Disputes to Deal-Making at the World Trade Organization [Hardcover]

Winner of the 2018 ILAW Book Award from the International Studies Association (ISA).This book advances innovative arguments and presents original evidence to shed light on the important and surprisingly under-researched question of whether, and how, judicial politics has affected the prospects for cooperation in the WTO through multilateral trade rounds.Judicial politics has emerged as a central feature of the multilateral trading system alongside a steep decline in the World Trade Organizations ability to deliver negotiated trade liberalization. This book advances innovative arguments and presents original evidence to shed light on the important and surprisingly under-researched question of whether, and how, judicial politics has affected the prospects for cooperation in the WTO through multilateral trade rounds.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables viiAbbreviations ixPreface xiChapter One  Introduction 1Chapter Two  Judicial Politics and the Litigation-Negotiation Nexus 11Chapter Three  Judicial Politics and the Liberalisation of Tariff Barriersto Trade 31Chapter Four  Judicial Politics and Regulatory Cooperation 49Chapter Five  Legal Vulnerability and Cooperation 69Chapter Six  WTO Judicialisation and the Specialisation of InterestMobilisation 99Conclusion 131Bibliography 135Index 159Arlo Poletti is Assistant Professor of International Public Policy at the University LUISS Guido Carli (Rome, Italy) where he teaches international relations and international public policy. His research interests focus on the political economy of trade policy making, WTO judicial politics and interest groups lobbying. He has published on these topics in the?Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, Regulation & Governance, West European Politics, Comparative European Politics?and other outlets. Recently, he published a monographic study?The European Union and Multilateral Trade Governance: The Politics of the Doha Round?with Routledge. Hel#é