19 - The 2008 WTO accession of Ukraine: negotiating experience – challenges, opportunities and post-accession approaches

pp 483-508

20 - The year 2012: WTO accession of Montenegro – why did we apply to join? Priorities and results

pp 509-527

21 - The 2012 WTO accession of Russia: negotiating experience – challenges, opportunities and post-accession approaches

pp 528-544

22 - The 2013 WTO accession of Lao PDR: specific commitments and the integration of least-developed countries into the global economy

pp 545-557

23 - The 2013 WTO accession of Tajikistan: experience of a landlocked economy in a changing regional economic configuration

pp 558-567

24 - The 2014 WTO accession of Yemen: accession negotiations as an instrument for domestic reform, national security and international cooperation

pp 568-578

PART IV - Working party chairpersons’ perspectives on accession negotiations

pp 579-580

25 - Facilitating accessions: the role of the working party chairperson

pp 581-591

26 - A podium perspective: experiences and challenges of chairing a working party

pp 592-601

27 - Are there different rules for least-developed countries in a rule-based system?

pp 602-607

28 - Managing the challenge of acceding post-conflict states

pp 608-620

PART V - Salient features inWTOAccession Protocols

pp 621-622

29 - Market access goods negotiations: salience, results and meaning

pp 623-640

30 - Services market opening: salience, results and meaning

pp 641-663

31 - WTO accession and the private sector: the nexus of rules and market opportunities

pp 664-673

32 - WTO accession and accession to the Agreement on Government Procurement: what is the relationship? Why should WTO acceding governments also consider GPA accession?

pp 674-700

33 - Energy-related rules in Accession Protocols: where are they?

pp 701-728

34 - Domestic framework for making and enforcing policies

pp 729-740

35 - Export duty commitments: the treaty dialogue and the pattern of commitments

pp 741-763

36 - Disciplining state trading practices: lessons from WTO accession negotiations

pp 764-794

37 - Intellectual property rights protection: the plus/minus debate from a least-developed country perspective – sense and nonsense

pp 795-817

38 - The future of multilateral investment rules in the WTO: contributions from WTO accession outcomes

pp 818-849

39 - Sanitary and phytosanitary measures: trends in accession plurilateral negotiations

pp 850-884

40 - Strengthening transparency in the multilateral trading system: the contribution of the WTO accession process

pp 885-906

PART VI - Conclusion

pp 907-908

41 - Accession Protocols as building blocks

pp 909-916

Annex: Contributor biographies

pp 917-941

Index

pp 942-973

Plate section