Politics of China's Accession to the World Trade Organization

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p>