Politics of China's Accession to the World Trade Organization : : The Dragon Goes Global / / Hui Feng.

• VerfasserIn: Feng, Hui,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Taylor & Francis,, 2006.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 pages) :; illustrations
• Notes: Includes index.

Grounded on a series of first-hand interviews with Chinese government officials, this book examines China's accession to the World Trade Organization, providing an 'inside' look at Chinese WTO accession negotiations. Presenting a systematic political economy model in analyzing Beijing's decision-making mechanisms, the book argues that China's WTO policy making is a state-led, leadership driven, and top-down process. Feng explores how China's determined political elite partly bypassed and partly restructured a largely reluctant and resistant bureaucracy, under constant pressure from an increasingly globalized international system. By addressing China's accession to the WTO from a political analysis perspective, the book provides a theoretically informed and intriguing examination of China's foreign economic policy making regime. The book highlights contemporary debates relating to state and institutionalist theory and provides new and useful insights into a significant development of this century.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. The Iron Bloc Inside Out: Theory and Methodology 2. The Road to the WTO 3. Contending Views on the WTO 4. Elite Politics and the WTO Accession 5. Bureaucratic Politics and WTO Accession 6. Foreign Pressures on China's WTO Accession Introduction 136 The international sources of WTO policy making 137 The United States 139 Coalition politics 150 The race against Taiwan 151 International education/learning 157 Conclusion 160 Conclusion 162 WTO accession: politics behind the great leap forward 162 Theoretical implications 165 The road ahead 167 Appendix: chronology of China's accession to the WTO 172 Notes 175 Bibliography 183 Index 197.