Judicial Politics and International Cooperation: From Disputes to Deal-Making at the World Trade Organization - Paperback

by Arlo Poletti (Author), Dirk de Bièvre (Author)

Judicial politics has emerged as a central feature of the multilateral trading system alongside a steep decline in the World Trade Organization's ability to deliver negotiated trade liberalization. This book advances innovative arguments and presents original evidence to shed light on the important and surprisingly under-researched question of whether, and how, judicial politics has affected the prospects for cooperation in the WTO through multilateral trade rounds.

Author Biography

Arlo Poletti is Assistant Professor of International Public Policy at the University LUISS Guido Carli (Rome, Italy) where he teaches international relations and international public policy. His research interests focus on the political economy of trade policy making, WTO judicial politics and interest groups' lobbying. He has published on these topics in the Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, Regulation & Governance, West European Politics, Comparative European Politics and other outlets. Recently, he published a monographic study The European Union and Multilateral Trade Governance: The Politics of the Doha Round with Routledge. He obtained a PhD from the University of Bologna (Italy) and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science of the University of Antwerp (Belgium). Dirk De Bièvre is Associate Professor of international politics and international political economy at the University of Antwerp (Flanders, Belgium). He studied in Leuven, Louvain-la-Neuve, and Konstanz, and obtained his PhD in Social and Political Sciences at the European University Institute in San Domenico di Fiesole in 2002. He is the author of numerous articles on European trade policy, the World Trade Organization, and interest group politics. Before joining the Antwerp Faculty in 2006, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn, and an EU and Volkswagen Foundation research fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). He occasionally taught at the universities of Brussels, Mannheim, Dresden, Leuven, and was a visiting fellow at the Department of Government of the London School of Economics and Political Science during the academic year 2014/15.