The threat to economic liberty from international organizations.
It is one of the abiding ironies at the beginning of the new millennium that various international organizations set up after the Second World War to create a new Liberal International Economic Order (LIEO) are now the major purveyors of" global illiberalism. How has this come to pass? Is...

What future for the Doha Development Agenda and the multilateral negotiating regime?
The panel was convened at 9:00 a.m., Friday, March 30, by its moderator, C. Donald Johnson of the University of Georgia Law School, who introduced the panelists: Raj Bhala of the University of Kansas School of Law; Sonia E. Rolland of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law; and...

Asian Discourses of Rule of Law: Theories and Implementation of Rule of Law in Twelve Asian Countries, France and the U.S.
Asian Discourses of Rule of Law: Theories and Implementation of Rule of Law in Twelve Asian Countries, France and the U.S. Edited by Randall Peerenboom. London & New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. Softcover: 479pp. The rule of law rhetoric has spread to many parts of the world and...

The limits of economic power: Section 301 and the World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement System.
TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION II. SECTION 301 AND ITS LIMITS A. Section 301 Deconstructed B. The United States and the Lure of Unilateralism C. A Taxonomy of Section 301 Cases (1985-1996) 1. Ensuring Compliance with International Trade...

The New World Order, Incorporated; the rise of business and the decline of the nation state.
WHEN GEORGE BUSH ANNOUNCED the beginning of a new world order, he had in mind a world in which democratic governments would together keep peace in the world and make it possible for everyone to be free to prosper in a liberalizing international economy. Peace, as we quickly came to...

Vietnam's membership of ASEAN: a constructivist interpretation.
It is widely accepted in Vietnam that the government's decision to join the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was both timely and wise (Nguyen Phuong Binh and Luan Thuy Duong 2001, p. 192). (1) In the absence of a detailed understanding of the organization's working procedures in Hanoi,...

Comparing local cross-border relations under the EU and NAFTA.
INTRODUCTION (1) The literature on cross-border relations provides us with different reasons for the existence and development of cross-border linkages (that is--the connections that span an international border); it suggests that such relations may take place because of (1) free trade, because they are in the interest...

THE POLITICS OF MOROCCO'S "FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION".
In the donor community as well as in academic circles, the second half of the 1990s witnessed a surge of interest in corruption, which is defined here as the abuse of public office for private gain. Pervasive, systemic corruption has now been identified as a major impediment to sustainable...

Iran's theocracy under siege.
In a Newsweek commentary four years ago, a knowledgeable observer of global politics described Iran as "ripe for counterrevolution" and wondered if the July 1999 students' uprising was the "beginning of the end" of the Islamic Republic. (1) Some other seasoned Middle East analysts regarded the same event as...

How Europe employs disguised regulatory protectionism to weaken American free enterprise *.
Abstract The European region regulates more than any single country in the world, and such over-regulation, along with higher taxes and labor and environmental standards, has increasingly caused European industry to lag behind its Asian and American competitors. As a result, a growing competitiveness and technology gap...