No Entry Without Strategy: Building the Rule of Law
under UN Transitional Administration

By Carolyn Bull

Although international actors seeking to consolidate peace and democracy in disrupted states recognise the importance of establishing the rule of law, this goal has proven frustratingly elusive.

UN peace operations have struggled to ensure lasting security and build legitimate structures that address disputes peacefully. It has been even harder to instill principles of governance that promote accountability to the law, protect against abuse and generate trust in the state.

This book investigates the challenges UN transitional administrations face in establishing the rule of law in Cambodia, Kosovo and East Timor. It explores conceptual understandings of the UN’s state-building agenda and speaks to broader questions about the role of external actors in disrupted states.

• Carolyn Bull manages the East Asia regional portfolio for the Australian Agency for International Development. She was a career diplomat with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade from 1993-2006.

Developing Countries and the WTO

Edited by Gary P. Sampson and W. Bradnee Chambers

An efficient global trading system is a prerequisite for trade promotion and the development of developing countries. It is recognised, however, that the current trading system has helped many developing countries. In this regard, the Doha Development Agenda – negotiations launched at the WTO to rectify that situation – has failed.

Developing countries are much better informed about trade negotiations than they were 10 years ago. They also comprise two-thirds of the membership of the WTO – an organisation based on consensus – giving them new power and authority in future negotiations. It is important for developing countries to have clear proposals for reform that are both ambitious and realistic.

This book addresses the critical trade policy choices now facing developing countries. Experienced negotiators, scholars and trade officials from very different backgrounds offer policy prescriptions to secure a world trading system that will meet the needs of developing countries.

• Gary P. Sampson is the John Gough Professor of International Trade at Melbourne Business School, Melbourne University.
• W. Bradnee Chambers is the Senior Programme Officer at the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) in Yokohama, Japan.

Making Choices about Hydrogen:
Transport Issues for Developing Countries

Edited by Lynn K. Mytelka and Grant Boyle

Since the mid-1990s, the emergence of a hydrogen economy and the speed with which it will arrive have been vigorously debated among policymakers, oil and gas, automobile, fuel-cell and renewable energy firms in the countries of the North, where policies and the technological competence and competitive practices of firms have played a central role in shaping both the debate and the direction of technological change during this period.

For developing countries, the current debate highlights the uncertainties involved in making choices about hydrogen and fuel cells in planning the development of their transport sector.

As a disruptive technology, dominant designs for the production, storage and distribution of hydrogen have not yet been established and performance characteristics that would make hydrogen proton-exchange-membrane fuel cells competitive with the existing combustion engine have not been achieved. Yet, costs are coming down and the efficiency and durability of hydrogen fuel cells (HFCs) are improving.

How to deal with competing arguments that push the hydrogen economy into the longer term (2050) and those that place its advent in a shorter-term perspective (2020) is one key issue for developing countries today as they explore their options for the design of national energy, environment and transport policies.

• Lynn K. Mytelka is a Professorial Fellow at UNU-MERIT in Maastricht, where she is Director of the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Project, and a Distinguished Research Professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She formerly served as Director of UNU-INTECH.
• Grant Boyle conducted policy research on energy and the environment at UNU-IAS in Yokohama, Japan, before serving as Associate Project Coordinator of the UNU HFC Project from 2004 through 2006. He is currently completing a law degree at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Canada.

The WTO and Global Governance:
Future Directions

Edited by Gary P. Sampson

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is mandated by governments to achieve full employment, a steady growth in real income, and higher standards of living for its 150 plus member countries. It is also required to ensure the optimal use of the world’s resources in accordance with sustainable development.

As a result, the WTO has greatly extended its reach into non-traditional areas of trade policy as part of a global tapestry of international agreements with overlapping objectives and commitments, many of which now find their place on centre-stage at the WTO.

These commitments serve to shape domestic policy choices and constitute a principal feature of global governance. The WTO has a principal role to play in determining the dividing line between domestic policy choices and international commitments. While the extended reach of the WTO is lauded by some as one of the greatest achievements in international cooperation, others see it as an encroachment on national sovereignty. The question which presents itself is: What should be the role of the WTO in global governance?

This book contains a range of views from prominent people, all influential in their respective areas of international affairs. It explores the policy implications of WTO trade related issues that overlap with other institutions, and proposes future policy directions that could ensure coherent and consistent policies at the national and international level.

• Gary P. Sampson is the John Gough Professor of International Trade at Melbourne Business School, Melbourne University, and Professor of International Economic Governance at the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) in Yokohama, Japan.

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