Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Law Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

International Law

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

2002

World Trade Organization

Articles 1 - 1 of 1

Full-Text Articles in Law

Afterword: The Linkage Problem – Comments On Five Texts, John H. Jackson Jan 2002

Afterword: The Linkage Problem – Comments On Five Texts, John H. Jackson

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The problem of linkage between "non trade" subjects and the World Trade Organization is certainly one of the most pressing and challenging policy puzzles for international economic relations and institutions today. It is extensively and harshly debated by political leaders and diplomats, at both the national and the international levels of discourse, and is one of several issues that derailed the WTO Third Ministerial Conference in Seattle in late 1999. It also posed problems for the Fourth Ministerial Conference in Doha, Qatar, in November of 2001, and it threatens to derail the successful functions of the WTO itself. With the …