Trade multilateralism in the twenty-first century : building the upper floors of the trading system through WTO accessions

Foreword / WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo -- Acknowledgements -- Making trade multilateralism work for all : the role of wto accessions / Alexei Kireyev and Chiedu Osakwe -- WTO accessions and the new trade multilateralism -- The WTO and the changing state of the global economy / Alexei Kireyev -- The art and science of negotiation : de-politicizing and technicizing negotiations / Micheline Calmy-Rey and Svenja Rauch -- The accession of Kazakhstan : dealing with complexity / Alexei Kireyev, Chiedu Osakwe and Anna Varyanik -- Helping businesses navigate WTO accession / Arancha González -- WTO rules, accession protocols and mega-regionals : complementarity and governance in the rules-based global economy / Mala Leki and Chiedu Osakwe -- Promoting good governance : from encouraging a principle to taking concrete action : examples from wto accession protocols and the WTO trade facilitation agreement / Juneyoung Lee, Nora Neufeld and Anna Varyanik -- Transforming accessions data into knowledge / Chiedu Osakwe, Hubert Escaith, Vicky Chemutai and Ying Yan -- Negotiators' perspectives on the WTO accession process -- Liberia : lessons from a fast-track accession / Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Axel Addy -- Afghanistan's accession : challenged by conflict / Humayoon Rasaw -- The WTO accession of seychelles : lessons from a small island economy / Pierre Laporte, Charles Morin and Cillia Mangroo -- WTO accession negotiations from a negotiator's perspective / Atsuyuki Oike -- Accessions acquis : thematic perspectives and implementation challenges -- How post-TRIPS negotiations reframe the "trade-related aspects" of intellectual property after TRIPS : the lessons of WTO accessions / Antony Taubman -- Competition policy in WTO accessions : filling in the blanks in the international trading system / Robert D. Anderson, Anna Caroline Müller and Nivedita Sen -- Geographical indications in the accessions landscape / Tatiana Yanguas Acosta -- Wto accession commitments on agriculture : lessons for WTO rule-making / Diwakar Dixit -- The WTO-plus obligations : dual class or a strengthened system? / Nannan Gao and Fangying Zheng -- Accession protocols and the private sector / Josefita Pardo de León and Mariam Soumaré -- Post-accession support platform / Maika Oshikawa -- Conclusion : trade multilateralism : enhancing flexibility, preserving the momentum / Alexei Kireyev and Chiedu Osakwe -- Annex: Contributor biographies -- Index