Library acquisitions — April 2018

We are pleased to share our list of selected new acquisitions from April 2018. You can send your requests to Web.Librarian@wto.org.

The list is also available on Library’s website: http://intranet/__resources/library/_en/new_for_you_new_books.html.

For continuous updates on the latest trade news, don’t forget to check out the “Latest in trade” RSS feed: http://intranet/en/resources/library/library.htm

Kind regards,

Your WTO Library Team

	Through 17 May 2018, explore World Scientific Journals! In addition to scientific, technical, and medical books, World Scientific Publishing publishes 135 journals in various domains. For the purposes of this trial, content published between 2013 and 2018 from 124 journals is available for consultation For more information on HeinOnline’s World Constitutions Illustrated and to take advantage of this trial, visit their website: https://www.worldscientific.com/page/wsjournals. Trial access is via IP recognition.If unable to access this resource or in case of questions, please email us at web.librarian.
	Through July 2018, explore Oxford International Organizations! Oxford International Organizations (OXIO) is the first database for analyzing and understanding key documents of international organizations, with a concise expert commentary accompanying each document. OXIO includes resolutions and decisions of organizations, draft normative texts prepared within the framework of organizations, constituent instruments of organizations, court decisions relevant for the institutional law of organizations, and more. For more information and to experiment this resource during the trial period, visit Oxford International Organizations here: http://opil.ouplaw.com/home/oxio
	Did you have a chance to test out HeinOnline’s World Constitutions Illustrated during April? If so, we would appreciate your feedback on this resource! Please share your thoughts on this resource by emailing us at web.librarian.
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Covers	Title, Authors/Editor details, WTO catalogue records email request links	Previews
	The Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) in Africa : a human rights perspective / United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927170 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Full text: http://bit.ly/2KAe3c0
	Le développement du droit international : réflexions d’un demi-siècle / Georges Abi-Saab ; recueil d’articles réunis par Marcelo G. Kohen et Magnus Jesko Langer. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927176 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2IkdW62
	The divide : global inequality from conquest to free markets / Jason Hickel. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927046 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2HRkxS4
	Droit international de l’investissement / Arnaud de Nanteuil. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927122 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview unavailable
	Elgar encyclopedia of international economic law / edited by Thomas Cottier, Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer, with Jonas Baumann, Brigitta Imeli, Julian Powell, Rebecca Gilgen. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927146 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2HQ42FX
	La gran brecha : qué hacer con las sociedades desiguales / Joseph E. Stiglitz ; traducción de María Luisa Rodríguez Tapia y Federico Corriente. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927110 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview unavailable
	International trade law / Indira Carr, Peter Stone. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927114 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2KAhr6I
	Orden mundial : reflexiones sobre el carácter de las naciones y el curso de la historia / Henry Kissinger ; traducción de Teresa Arijón. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927112 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview unavailable
	Où va le monde? / Pascal Lamy, Nicole Gnesotto ; avec Jean-Michel Baer. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927191 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2KDnGGO
	La patente biotecnológica y la OMC / Mireia Martínez Barrabés ; prólogo de Xavier Pons Ràfols. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927166 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview unavailable
	Peut-on guérir de la mondialisation? / Jacques Poulain. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927168 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2HSU5rl
	Straight talk on trade : ideas for a sane world economy / Dani Rodrik. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927172 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2JVsG8W

 

Library acquisitions — August 2017

Dear all,

We are pleased to send you our list of selected new acquisitions from August 2017. You can send your requests to Web.Librarian@wto.org.

The list is also available on Library’s website: http://intranet/__resources/library/_en/new_for_you_new_books.html.

For continuous updates on the latest trade news, don’t forget to check out the “Latest in trade” RSS feed: http://intranet/en/resources/library/library.htm

Kind regards,

Your WTO Library Team

Covers	Title, Authors/Editor details, WTO catalogue records email request links	Previews
	Calculation of compensation and damages in international investment law / Irmgard Marboe. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926848 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/Mkyxsq
	Enforceability of multi-tiered dispute resolution clauses / Ewelina Kajkowska. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926880 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/DjZmrn
	Estudios jurídicos sobre el Tratado de Libre Comercio entre República Dominicana, Centroamérica y Estados Unidos / [edited by] Anabel González. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926923 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview unavailable
	Éthique globale, bonne gouvernance et droit international économique / [sous la direction de] Laurent Manderieux, Michele Vellano. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926909 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/XDnSmf
	EU intellectual property law and policy / Catherine Seville. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926859 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/YSXniu
	EU regulation of e-commerce : a commentary / edited by Arno R. Lodder, Andrew D. Murray. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926878 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/f5gbWo
	A guide to EU renewable energy policy : comparing Europeanization and domestic policy change in EU member states / edited by Israel Solorio, Helge Jörgens. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1925705 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/zcYR6A
	International arbitration of intellectual property disputes : a practitioner’s guide / Peter Chrocziel … [et al.]. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926882 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/cPPycT
	International organizations and member state responsibility : critical perspectives / edited by Ana Sofia Barros, Cedric Ryngaert, Jan Wouters. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926817 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/pKngNk
	Patenting genes : the requirement of industrial application / Marta Díaz Pozo. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926874 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/gNnQbF
	Patents for development : improved patent information disclosure and access for incremental innovation / Nefissa Chakroun. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926876 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/ieBjef
	Realizing utopia : the future of international law / edited by Antonio Cassese. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926901 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/3FHWUM
	The role of legal advisers in international law / edited by Andraz Zidar, Jean-Pierre Gauci. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926819 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/oE4sMN

 

Library acquisitions — May 2016

We are pleased to send you our list of selected new acquisitions from May 2016. You can send your requests to Web.Librarian@wto.org.

The list is also available on Library’s website: http://intranet/__resources/library/_en/new_for_you_new_books.html.

For continuous updates on the latest trade news, don’t forget to check out the “Latest in trade” RSS feed: http://intranet/en/resources/library/library.htm

Kind regards,

Your WTO Library Team

Only a few more days to explore the Emerald eJournals Collection! Through 2 June 2016, take advantage of this resource which brings a wealth of peer-reviewed international research together in one cross-disciplinary journal database. While WTO will continue to have subscription access to many electronic journals from Emerald, this trial allows consultation of the full range of titles in this collection, amounting to more than 130,000 articles from more than 290 journals. For more information, visit the Emerald eJournals Collection here: http://www.emeraldinsight.com If you used Emerald eJournals Collection during this trial period, your feedback on this resource would be greatly appreciated. Please send your comments about this tool to web.librarian@wto.org by 30 June 2016.

Covers	Title, Authors/Editor details, WTO catalogue records email request links	Previews
	Advanced introduction to international environmental law / Ellen Hey. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926350 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/44S9l3
	Arresting contagion : science, policy, and conflicts over animal disease control / Alan L. Olmstead, Paul W. Rhode. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926086 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/E7v75i
	Commentary on the UN Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG) / edited by Ingeborg Schwenzer. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926220 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/uGfM98
	Expert knowledge in global trade / edited by Erin Hannah, James Scott and Silke Trommer. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926263 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/I14Wyw
	Free trade under fire / Douglas A. Irwin. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926341 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/rnig3t
	Future of the global trade order / edited by Carlos A. Primo Braga and Bernard Hoekman. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926396 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Full text: http://goo.gl/kRrBbR
	Governance of intellectual property rights in China and Europe / edited by Nari Lee, Niklas Bruun, Mingde Li. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926307 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/38TdAh
	The great divide / Joseph Stiglitz. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926329 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/zxRiVb
	International organizations as orchestrators / [edited by] Kenneth W. Abbott … [et al.]. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926364 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/JVYsFl
	The political economy of WTO implementation and China’s approach to litigation in the WTO / Yenkong Ngangjoh Hodu, Zhang Qi. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926313 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://goo.gl/zeaOBK
	Power plays : how international institutions reshape coercive diplomacy / Allison Carnegie. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926335 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/7fuk9u
	Regulação de conteúdo no GATS : um olhar sobre o atual cenário tecnológico / Gabriella Giovanna Lucarelli de Salvio de Souza Brasil. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926327 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://goo.gl/pdjZpx
	Research handbook on intellectual property and climate change / edited by Joshua D. Sarnoff. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1923026 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/56DwpD
	Research handbook on the history of copyright law / edited by Isabella Alexander, H. Tomás Gómez-Arostegui. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926354 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/rLFhqz

 

Library acquisitions — April 2016

We are pleased to share our list of selected new acquisitions from April 2016. You can send your requests to Web.Librarian@wto.org.

The list is also available on Library’s website: http://intranet/__resources/library/_en/new_for_you_new_books.html.

For continuous updates on the latest trade news, don’t forget to check out the “Latest in trade” RSS feed: http://intranet/en/resources/library/library.htm

Kind regards,

Your WTO Library Team

Through 2 June 2016, take advantage of the opportunity to explore the Emerald eJournals Collection! Covering finance and organization studies, public policy and information management, and much more, the Emerald eJournals Collection is a cross-disciplinary journal database, facilitating access to a wealth of peer-reviewed international research. While WTO already has subscription access to many electronic journals from Emerald, this trial allows consultation of the full range of titles in this collection, amounting to more than 130,000 articles from more than 290 journals. For more information and to explore this resource during this limited trial period, visit the Emerald eJournals Collection here: http://www.emeraldinsight.com

Covers	Title, Authors/Editor details, WTO catalogue records email request links	Previews
	Bridging the Pacific : toward free trade and investment between China and the United States / C. Fred Bergsten, Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Sean Miner ; assisted by Tyler Moran.   WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926382 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/Na85vr
	The EU’s role in global governance : the legal dimension / edited by Bart Van Vooren, Steven Blockmans and Jan Wouters.   WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926249 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/8Eijk3
	From stress to growth : strengthening Asia’s financial systems in a post-crisis world / [edited by] Marcus Noland and Donghyun Park.   WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926376 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/ORzbtB
	The great rebirth : lessons from the victory of capitalism over communism / [edited by] Anders Aslund and Simeon Djankov.   WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926388 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/3fTLYO
	The great tradeoff : confronting moral conflicts in the era of globalization / Steven R. Weisman.   WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926390 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/sNSZMG
	Inside the euro crisis : an eyewitness account / Simeon Djankov.   WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926384 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/B9RuSF
	Intellectual property and free trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific region / [edited by] Christoph Antons, Reto M. Hilty.   WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926291 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/zzREsf
	Managing the euro area debt crisis / William R. Cline.   WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926380 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/tbd6PY
	Markets over Mao : the rise of private business in China / Nicholas R. Lardy.   WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926378 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/YtJMCh
	A ‘more economic approach’ to WTO law’s relevant market definition, trade harm, and quantification of trade effects and countermeasures : a normative law and economics comparison with EU competition law / Marcos C. Iacovides. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926346 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://goo.gl/5QjZO0
	Policy-making in the European Union / edited by Helen Wallace, Mark A. Pollack, Alasdair R. Young.   WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926251 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/8SWuUE
	Rising powers, global governance, and global ethics / edited by Jamie Gaskarth.   WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926194 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/yR4r98
	TRIPS plus 20 : from trade rules to market principles / [edited by] Hanns Ullrich … [et al.].   WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926293 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/7Axnxc
	Ukraine : what went wrong and how to fix it / Anders Aslund.   WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926374 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://goo.gl/Ejiwik

 

Costa Rica Five Years After CAFTA-DR: Assessing Early Results

Friederike (Fritzi) Koehler-Geib and Susana M. Sanchez. (2015) Costa Rica Five Years After CAFTA-DR: Assessing Early Results. World Bank. [doi]

Abstract:

For Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic-Central America-free trade agreement (CAFTA-DR) has been more than a trade agreement. Costa Rica has used trade liberalization and promotion of international trade as a core development strategy for decades. CAFTA-DR consolidated benefits that had previously been unilaterally extended under the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) into a multilateral FTA, providing a much more stable environment for trade relationships. Beyond just being a trade agreement, CAFTA-DR brought about the opening of state monopolies in telecommunications and insurance, which polarized the country. No other trade agreement has generated as much controversy as this one about the potential impacts on the economy. Following a referendum with a small margin in favor of the agreement, Costa Rica was the last member country to ratify CAFTA-DR in 2009. Given the controversy at the time, the current study takes stock of the early impacts of CAFTA-DR during the five years since its ratification, addresses the following questions: What actual changes did the agreement bring about and what was their context? What was the impact of those changes on trade and FDI flows? How have the high tech, insurance, telecommunications, and pharmaceutical sectors been impacted?

Full-text of the publication is available in PDF, by chapter and in its entirety, through a subscription to the World Bank eLibrary.

A general equilibrium, ex-post evaluation of the EU–Chile Free Trade Agreement

This paper evaluates the impact on the Chilean economy of the EU–Chile Free Trade Agreement, in force since 2003, based on a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. The evaluation method, inspired by structural decomposition methods, consists of double calibration of the model, to account for interactions between the agreement’s impact and structural change in the Chilean economy. Trade flows are modeled at the detailed product level (six-digit level classification). The agreement is found to be slightly beneficial to Chile’s economy on the whole, benefiting mainly unskilled labor, with gains concentrated in few sectors (fruits, wine, fisheries and seafood processing).

Full-text available in .pdf

The Proliferation of Free Trade Agreements in the Post-Doha Round Period

The paper analyses the shift taking place in multilateral approaches to international trade following the de facto failure of Doha Round negotiations. In this new context all significant participants to international trade either already signed or are negotiating free trade agreements as an operational second best to a real multilateral regulation. The paper presents and analyses the position of European Union which is involved in negotiations covering the Atlantic area, the Euro-Mediterranean area and the Pacific area. Based on this research the authors draw a number of conclusions regarding the chances of conclusion of free trade area agreements and the impact of each of these three areas on the competitivity of European Union in the world economy. At the same time the authors conclude that the current trend towards free trade agreements does not imply a reorientation from multilateralism to bilateralism in the regulation of international trade but an operational solution to the new context determined by the cumulated effects of the failure of Doha Round negotiations and the economic crisis.

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On the trade-diversion effects of free trade agreements / Mian Dai, Yoto V. Yotov and Thomas Zylkin

Trade-diversion effects of free trade agreements (FTAs) have not been thoroughly examined empirically. Using a novel empirical approach, we confirm that FTAs divert trade away from non-member countries and even more so from internal trade (domestic sales) in member countries.

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A note on detecting biases in assessing the use of FTAs / Shintaro Hamanaka

There has been much confusion, rather than debate, on the use of free trade agreements (FTAs). Unfortunately, a large part of the confusion is caused by the absence of consensus on the meaning of key terms such as the “utilization rate” and “usage rate” of FTAs, and the lack of knowledge on upward or downward biases from various data sources regarding the use of FTAs. Rather than making an original empirical contribution, this article reviews existing studies and attempts to identify the relevant methodologies for assessing the use of FTAs.

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