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The legitimacy of civil society participation in international organizations : prospects for the World Trade Organization
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Abstract
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| The World Trade Organization is recurrently contested by civil society through thepublic protests during the WTO Ministerial Conferences. Especially after the major protests during the Seattle Ministerial Conference in 1999, the law- and decision-making procedures of the WTO have come under close scrutiny of academics from various disciplines, policymakers and civil society representatives. This PhD project mainly aims to contribute to the doctrinal debate about the legitimacy of the WTO. The project addresses the main pillars of the legitimacy problem in the WTO and it discusses the reasons why the particular form of participatory discursive democracy involving civil societyis the best normative theory to address the problem. The position of civil society is analyzed under the current regime of the WTO considering both WTO law and the decisions of the WTO dispute settlement panels and the Appellate Body.The ultimate objective is to propose alternative legal mechanisms and channels forcivil society participation that would contribute to the legitimacy of the WTO. In addition, the project offers certain solutions that might be applicable more general to international organizations and that might drive the discursive process to enhance the legitimacy of multilevel governance. |
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Language
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English
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Antwerp
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University of Antwerp, Faculty of Law
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2021
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548 p.
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Note
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Van Zimmeren, Esther [Supervisor]
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Cantore, Carlo [Supervisor]
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Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
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