Taiwan's Application to Gatt/Wto: Significance of Multilateralism for an Unrecognized State - Rilegato

Cho, Hui-Wan; Hui-Wan, Cho

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ISBN 10: 0275974219 ISBN 13: 9780275974213

Casa editrice: Praeger Pub Text, 2001

Riassunto

Revealing a powerful economic motive behind Taiwan's 1990 application for GATT membership, CHO questions those who interpreted it solely as a political move designed to break that island nation's diplomatic isolation. Flourishing economically since the 1950s despite non-GATT membership, matters changed for Taiwan in the 1980s. Taiwan's dual trade regime was no longer tolerated as it was pushed to liberalize its trade practices by bilateral pressures. Taiwan believes that the most-favored nation principle and diffuse reciprocity embedded in GATT/WTO's multilateralism will sheild Taiwan from the pernicious effects of bilateral asymmetry while simultaneously providing it with "more international living space."

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L'autore:

CHO Hui-Wan is Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of International Politics, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan./e

Product Description:

Revealing a powerful economic motive behind Taiwan's 1990 application for GATT membership, Cho questions those who interpreted it solely as a political move designed to break that island nation's diplomatic isolation. Flourishing economically since the 1950s despite non-GATT membership, matters changed for Taiwan in the 1980s when it became both "big and small." As a big trader, its dual trade regime was no longer tolerated, while as a small economy with little political clout, Taiwan was pushed to liberalize its trade practices by bilateral pressures. Taiwan believes that the most-favored nation principle and diffuse reciprocity embedded in GATT/WTO's multilateralism will sheild Taiwan from the pernicious effects of bilateral asymmetry while simultaneously providing it with "more international living space."

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• Editore: Praeger Pub Text
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0275974219
• ISBN 13: 9780275974213
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 219