Strategies in GATT and WTO Negotiations

Abhijit Das is an international trade expert with two and a half decades of experience in international trade negotiations and WTO issues in various capacities, including five years in trade policy making and trade negotiations in the Government of India and twelve years as the Professor and Head, Centre for WTO Studies, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi. His work has played an influential role in defining the terms of debate on many issues including agriculture, government procurement, and the digital economy. He has published extensively on the economic and legal aspects of the WTO in reputed national and peer-reviewed international journals and has co-edited several books on WTO and international trade, including WTO Dispute Settlement at Twenty: Insiders' Reflections on India's Participation (Springer), Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: A Framework for Future Trade Rules? (Sage), and Twenty Years of India's Trade Liberalisation: Experiences and Lessons (UN).

• 1: Studying Negotiating Strategies: An Introduction2: Negotiation: Definition, Types, and Stages3: Multilateral Trading System: Origin, Establishment, and Evolution4: Strategies Used by Developed Countries Away from the Negotiating Table5: Strategies Used by Developed Countries at the Negotiating Table6: Odds in GATT and WTO Negotiations Stacked Against Developing Countries7: Overcoming Odds at the Negotiating Table: Removing Three Singapore Issues from the Negotiating Agenda8: Davids Join Hands to Take on Goliath in the Battle on Agriculture9: Securing Rules to Fight Hunger and Poverty10: Concluding Thoughts on Negotiating Strategies

This volume offers a unique record of India's role in multilateral trade negotiations. As importantly, it offers an invaluable analysis and template of negotiating strategies and tactics that will be indispensable reading for negotiators from across the Global South.