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Who Decides? A Comparative Institutional Approach To International Trade Law, Gregory C. Shaffer
Who Decides? A Comparative Institutional Approach To International Trade Law, Gregory C. Shaffer
Gregory C Shaffer
ABSTRACT: WHO DECIDES?
A COMPARATIVE INSTITUTIONAL APPROACH TO INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW
by Gregory Shaffer
Wing-Tat Lee Chair of International Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
This article has two core theses. First, as regards the issue of power in global governance, it maintains that meaningful policy choices need to be made from a comparative institutional analytic perspective since no governance mechanism provides for completely unbiased participation or representation of affected interests. All institutions are imperfect. Resource asymmetries are always present. Thus, while it is important to examine the role of power in global governance, a risk of choosing power …