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The Politics of China's Accession to the World Trade Organization

The Dragon Goes Global

Hui Feng author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:2nd Nov '12

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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.

'A very fine piece of work.' - Asian Pacific Economic Literature, Volume 20, Issue 2

'Although the book is primarily aimed at political scientists, its subject matter will be of interest to a much broader audience.' - John Ravenhill, The Australian National University


'A very fine piece of work.' - Asian Pacific Economic Literature, Volume 20, Issue 2

'Although the book is primarily aimed at political scientists, its subject matter will be of interest to a much broader audience.' - John Ravenhill,The Australian National University

ISBN: 9780415650984

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 317g

216 pages