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Overhauling The Wto: Opportunity At Doha And Beyond, John Audley, Ann Florini
Overhauling The Wto: Opportunity At Doha And Beyond, John Audley, Ann Florini
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
The world's trade ministers, who will meet at a WTOministerial in November 2001 in Doha, Qatar, are wrong to think that only a newround of negotiations will save the much-maligned international trade system.Carnegie senior associates John Audley and Ann M. Florini argue that theyshould, instead, simultaneously tackle internal and external reform of the WTOto make it a truly equitable institution. Internally, industrial countries muststart treating developing countries as equal partners in making the rules thatgovern global trade, and where necessary provide technical assistance to makethat equality possible. Externally, to satisfy legitimate public demands,members should improve the transparency of WTO proceedings …
Foreign Policy Issues Facing The New Administration: Introduction [Randolph W. Thrower Symposium], Howard Hunter
Foreign Policy Issues Facing The New Administration: Introduction [Randolph W. Thrower Symposium], Howard Hunter
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
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Intelligent Island Discourse: Singapore’S Discursive Negotiation With Technology, Alwyn Lim
Intelligent Island Discourse: Singapore’S Discursive Negotiation With Technology, Alwyn Lim
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
The small nation-state of Singapore has increasingly been referred to in the popular media as the Intelligent Island of the future. With significant state investment in the promotion and dissemination of information-communications technology and attendant social ramifications, this has become an area that can no longer be ignored or taken for granted. This article intends to map the conditions of possibility on which Singapore can be conceived of as an Intelligent Island, in situating the role of information technology and Intelligent Island discourse within the discourses of postcoloniality, technocapitalism, late modernity, and globalization. In particular, this article attempts to show …
Is Feminism Bad For Multiculturalism?, Chandran Kukathas
Is Feminism Bad For Multiculturalism?, Chandran Kukathas
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
Multiculturalism and feminism are in tension to the extent that multiculturalism is a doctrine that condones the tolera- tion of cultural communities which might not respect or value women's concerns or interests. This has led some feminist think- ers, notably Susan Okin, to ask whether multiculturalism is bad for women. This paper agrees with Okin that there is a tension between feminism and multiculturalism - some of her critics to the contrary notwithstanding - but argues that multiculturalism should take preceden
Can A Liberal Society Tolerate Illiberal Elements?, Chandran Kukathas
Can A Liberal Society Tolerate Illiberal Elements?, Chandran Kukathas
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
Libertarians believe that all individuals are entitledto live as they choose, free from interference byother persons or by the state. They also believethat in the absence of such interference, whether bygovernment or other agents of the state intent ondesigning or planning for society as a whole, order willnonetheless prevail. Given the freedom to contract andexchange, markets will coordinate the production anddistribution of goods — and indeed do so better thanany other institution can.