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Managing the Challenges of WTO Participation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 668

Managing the Challenges of WTO Participation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-09-13
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Documents different experiences among economies in addressing the challenges of participating in the WTO.

International Trade Law and Domestic Policy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 323

International Trade Law and Domestic Policy

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-05-25
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  • Publisher: UBC Press

Critics of the World Trade Organization argue that its binding dispute settlement process imposes a neoliberal agenda on member states. If this is the case, why would any nation agree to participate? Jacqueline Krikorian explores this question by examining the impact of the WTO’s dispute settlement mechanism on domestic policies in the United States and Canada. She demonstrates that the WTO’s ability to influence domestic arrangements has been constrained by three factors: judicial deference, institutional arrangements, and strategic decision making by political elites in Ottawa and Washington. By bringing the insights of law and politics scholarship to bear on a subject matter traditionally addressed by international relations scholars, Krikorian shows that the classic division in political science between these two fields of study, though suitable in the postwar era, is outdated in the context of a globalized world.

On the Outside
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 242

On the Outside

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-05-20
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  • Publisher: UBC Press

From the passage of Bill C-10, with its punitive, tough-on-crime provisions, to sensationalist media accounts of dangerous ex-convicts, it is evident that Canada is a country that is taking an increasingly hard line on crime. In reality, however, the vast majority of prisoners who serve out their sentences will never see the inside of a prison cell again. On the Outside explores the post-carceral lives of men who have successfully resettled into the community after serving at least a decade in Canada’s penitentiaries. Exploring the transition from imprisonment to the challenges of resettlement, this book will change the way you think about prisoners and open up the debate on the perils of tough-on-crime legislation.

Globalizing Confederation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Globalizing Confederation

In seeking to ascertain how others understood, constructed or used Canada's Confederation in 1867 as a model to be adapted or avoided, Globalizing Confederation explores the ideas and events that captured the imagination of people around the world.

The Age of Reconstruction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

The Age of Reconstruction

A sweeping history of how Union victory in the American Civil War inspired democratic reforms, revolutions, and emancipation movements in Europe and the Americas The Age of Reconstruction looks beyond post–Civil War America to tell the story of how Union victory and Lincoln’s assassination set off a dramatic international reaction that drove European empires out of the Americas, hastened the end of slavery in Latin America, and ignited a host of democratic reforms in Europe. In this international history of Reconstruction, Don Doyle chronicles the world events inspired by the Civil War. Between 1865 and 1870, France withdrew from Mexico, Russia sold Alaska to the United States, and Brita...

International Trade Law and Domestic Policy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

International Trade Law and Domestic Policy

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-05-25
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  • Publisher: UBC Press

Critics of the World Trade Organization argue that its binding dispute settlement process imposes a neoliberal agenda on member states. If this is the case, why would any nation agree to participate? Jacqueline Krikorian explores this question by examining the impact of the WTO's dispute settlement mechanism on domestic policies in the United States and Canada. She demonstrates that the WTO's ability to influence domestic arrangements has been constrained by three factors: judicial deference, institutional arrangements, and strategic decision making by political elites in Ottawa and Washington.

Unjust by Design
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 389

Unjust by Design

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-03-01
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  • Publisher: UBC Press

Canadian legislatures regularly assign what are truly court functions to non-court, government tribunals. These executive branch “judicial” tribunals are surrogate courts and together comprise a little-known system of administrative justice that annually makes hundreds of thousands of contentious, life-altering judicial decisions concerning the everyday rights of both individuals and businesses. This book demonstrates that, except perhaps in Quebec, the administrative justice system is a justice system in name only. Failing to conform to rule-of-law principles or constitutional norms, its tribunals are neither independent nor impartial and are only providentially competent. Unjust by Design describes a justice system in transcendent need of major restructuring and provides a blueprint for change.

Opportunism and Goodwill
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 219

Opportunism and Goodwill

Opportunism and Goodwill explores the relatively untapped history of Canadian-Colombian relations and the role Canada has played in the modern economic development of the region.

To Right Historical Wrongs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

To Right Historical Wrongs

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10-15
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  • Publisher: UBC Press

Following the Second World War, liberal nation-states sought to address injustices of the past. Canada's government began to consider its own implication in various past wrongs, and in the late twentieth century it began to implement reparative justice initiatives for historically marginalized people. Yet despite this shift, there are more Indigenous and racialized people in Canadian prisons now than at any other time in history. Carmela Murdocca examines this disconnect between the political motivations for amending historical injustices and the vastly disproportionate reality of the penal system a troubling contradiction that is often ignored.

The Daily Plebiscite
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 326

The Daily Plebiscite

The Daily Plebiscite offers a multi-faceted analysis of Canada's national unity crisis from the perspective of someone who lived through it all.