期刊名称：South-Eastern Europe Journal of Economics (SEEJE)
印刷版ISSN：1109-8597
电子版ISSN：1792-3115
出版年度：2008
卷号：6
期号：1
出版社：Association of Economic Universities of South and Eastern Europe and the Black Sea Region
摘要：This book is dedicated to the political economist Egon Matzner, who spent the last years of his professional life researching a more functional institutional framework of globalization. The editors of the book address certain aspects of Matzner’s research project “Global Rule Making” for trade negotiations. The focal point of the book is forum-switching in international trade negotiations. The terms arena-switching and forum-switching are used to indicate that similar agendas of trade issues are dealt with in multiple negotiation fora. To begin with, forum- shifting in trade negotiations is seen as an evolutionary process over time. After the Second World War, the International Trade Organization (ITO) and the GATT were the first major attempts to shift the forum from the bilateral or plurilateral level to the multilateral era. In the 1970’s the Third World countries were the protagonists in a second major attempt at fοrum-shifting, by bringing into being the UNCTAD arena - to the detriment of GATT. A third major forum-shifting attempt materialized in the 1990’s, after the demise of state socialism, with the formation of the World Trade Organization (WTO). According to the authors, the treaty was much more constraining for the Third World.
