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- Title: Process Drivers in Trade Negotiations: The Role of Research in the Path to Grounding and Contextualizing (Global Insights) (Essay)
- Author : Global Governance
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 268 KB
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Virtually every country today is either already a member of or seeking to accede to the World Trade Organization (WTO). (1) Numbers make a difference, but so does the intellectual landscape in which newcomers operate. Ideas in trade relations have become so dominant that they are invisibly embedded as a "normal" way of doing business. Reproduced in a spiral of precedents, they can then remain largely unquestioned and taken for granted, playing a subtle background role in shaping and limiting the articulation of policy alternatives. As such, ideas can serve to conceal the stratification of the global system into a core of rule makers and a broad band of heterogeneous rule takers. Institutions thus emerge as embedding the preferences and interests of some constituencies better than others. Since the WTO ministerial meeting in Cancun in 2003, there are two particular developments that characterize the participation of rule-taking developing countries in the WTO. (2) First, they are learning to participate more effectively through coalitions. Evidence of this can be found in the ever-growing numbers of such coalitions and their resilience. For instance, the Cancun meeting catalyzed the emergence of at least four new coalitions--the G-20, (3) the G-33, the Core Group on Singapore Issues, and the Cotton Group--in addition to the activism of others that predated the ministerial, including the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group; the Least Developed Countries Group; the Africa Group; and the Like-Minded Group. Several of these remain active and continue to bargain collectively in the Doha Round. Bargaining based on a coalition provides countries both weight and resources (including research) to balance the agenda. Second, the quality of developing country proposals has improved significantly in terms of range, depth, and feasibility, demonstrating substantive research and mastery of technical detail. Indeed, some participants present the production and exchange of research as core functions of the coalition itself. Research intensity has grown exponentially. No doubt as contending players grow in strength and stature, they are investing in the production of research to become technically empowered. After all, trade negotiations are about who gets what and how.
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