More power to the WTO?
More power to the WTO?
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DOI：
10.1093/jiel/4.1.41
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发表时间：
2001-03-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Bronckers, MCEJ
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作者：
Bronckers, MCEJ
由于其独特的特点（一揽子交易;有效的争端解决），世贸组织有可能成为全球治理的关键支柱。原则上，它完全可以承担与环境、劳工、投资、竞争法等有关的额外职责，但以目前的形式，世贸组织无法负责任地承担更大的任务。首先必须进行一些根本性的体制改革。世贸组织框架中所包含的贸易和其他社会价值观应得到平等的承认;应排除以自由贸易偏见来解释世贸组织一揽子规则中的每一条规则。必须加强与专门国际组织和非政府组织的合作，以制定和执行新的准则。在更大的程度上，世贸组织应该作为一个开放的制度，而不是一个独立的国际公法制度。世贸组织的成员，包括欧洲联盟在内，目前约有140个国家，有责任使世贸组织能够迎接这一挑战。如果各国政府这样做，从而认真对待全球治理的必要性，那么WTO应该有一个更好的名字：世界经济组织（WEO）。
Because of its unique characteristics (package deals; effective dispute resolution), the WTO has the potential to become a key pillar of global governance. In principle, it could very well take on additional duties relating to the environment, labour, investment, competition law, etc. Yet in its present form, the WTO cannot responsibly assume a larger mandate. A number of fundamental, institutional changes will first have to be made. Trade and other societal values incorporated in the WTO framework ought to be recognized as equals; a liberal trade bias to interpret each and every rule in the WTO package is to be excluded. Go-operation with specialized international organizations, and NGOs, to prepare and implement new norms must intensify. To a greater extent the WTO ought to operate as an open, rather than a self-contained, regime under public international law. It is up to its members, the now some 140 countries including the European Union, to enable the WTO to take up this challenge. If national governments do so, and thereby take the need for global governance seriously, the WTO deserves a better name: the World Economic Organization, the WEO.