POLI 358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: World Trade Organization, Free Trade, North American Free Trade Agreement

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 358
• Professor: Leonardo Baccini

Document Summary

Poli 358 lecture 9: explaining flexibility in international organizations. Legend: normal text- from slides; italics: what the professor said in class, over and above the slides. Forum shopping: particular type of flexibility- not a variation of flex within the institution, but that countries can use different institutions when they face a problem of cooperation, e. g. : dispute to resolve- can choose a forum- depending on their preferences. Koremenos and colleagues paper- 5 main dependent variables along which we have a variation. The rational design of international institutions: dv: membership; scope of issues; centralization of tasks; rules for controlling the institution; flexibility. Iv: distribution problems; enforcement problems; number of actors; uncertainty. Broader deeper tradeoff- what is the idea of this- why deep international institutions: sequencing of the international institutions- wto and eu, gilligan"s paper- all members of the agreement have different level of commitment. See the relationship between flexibility and distribution and flexibility and.