World Trade Organization

It Is becoming increasingly evident that traditional sovereignty is simply out of date. Instead, what we might call 'cooperative' sovereignty -- which focused on communication and interaction -- is more responsive to the realities of interdependent economies in the twenty-first century. Nowhere is this more salient than in the area of dispute resolution, especially as labour, intellectual property, and the environtment can no longer be evaded in trade negotiations. This ground-breaking book suggests that it is this shift in perspective that has given rise to proliferation of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) and the inevitable overlaps and tensions between their provisions and those of the World Trade Organization (WTO).