Conflicting Philosophies and International Trade Law
Worldviews and the WTO
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Beschreibung
This book reveals how conflicting worldviews are at the root of public controversies on policy and trade issues. It highlights the particularly controversial disputes at the level of the World Trade Organization in the case of regulating beef-hormones and GMOs, aiming to show how negotiators of international agreements, members of dispute settlement bodies, and policy makers in general could have recourse to concepts of other disciplines such as epistemology and philosophy in order to address deadlocked legal disputes. Ultimately, the book is a manifesto for independent and critical research.
This book reveals how conflicting worldviews are at the root of public controversies on policy and trade issues. It highlights the particularly controversial disputes at the level of the World Trade Organization in the case of regulating beef-hormones and GMOs, aiming to show how negotiators of international agreements, members of dispute settlement bodies, and policy makers in general could have recourse to concepts of other disciplines such as epistemology and philosophy in order to address deadlocked legal disputes. Ultimately, the book is a manifesto for independent and critical research.
Uses epistemological concepts to address deadlocked problems in international law, offering an interdisciplinary perspective that combines political economy, international trade law, and philosophy Addresses controversies of the World Trade Agreement around the SPS Agreement on food safety and animal and plant health measures as a case study of international decision-making Speaks to negotiators, members of dispute settlement bodies, policy makers, and scholars interested in new approaches for mitigating increased tensions in international law Reflects on the symbiotic relationship between scientific discovery and economic progress which emerged in the Age of Enlightenment and is anew challenged by populist Romanticism Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Autor*in
Michael Burkard
Themen in »Conflicting Philosophies and International Trade Law«
epistemology trade liberalisation trade policy protectionism SPS Agreement WTO agriculture regulation positivist relativist