Legalization of Development in the WTO: Between Law and Politics »

It's often said that the WTO's Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU) works more in favor of the richer members with their vastly greater resources. On the other hand, one of the principal objectives of the DSU was to create a fairer system, in which

Ch. 1 Introduction 1

Ch. 2 Regulation of International Relations: A Legal Reading of Regime Theory 25

Ch. 3 Developing Countries' Special Status in the GATT and WTO 73

Ch. 4 Dispute Settlement in GATT to WTO 105

Ch. 5 On the (Non-)effectiveness of the WTO's Special and Differential Treatments in the Dispute Settlement Process 153

Ch. 6 African Countries and WTO's Dispute Settlement Mechanism 189

Ch. 7 Conclusion 213

List of References 227

Index 241