China S Readmission To The World Trade Organization Financial Services Agreement

Witnesses: Lawrence H. Summers, Secretary, U.S. Dept. of the Treasury; Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky, U.S. Trade Representative; Marc E. Lackritz, Pres., Securities Industry Assoc.; Gary G. Benanav, Chairman and CEO, New York Life International, Inc., Wash., DC, on behalf of The International Insurance Council; and Robert P. Morrow III, Managing Dir. and Group Executive, International Corporate Banking Group, Bank of America Corp., San Francisco, CA, on behalf of The Financial Services Roundtable.

This volume outlines a new approach for understanding China's treaty performance around international standards on trade and human rights, using the paradigms of selective adaptation and institutional capacity. Selective adaptation reveals how local interpretation and implementation of international treaty standards are affected by normative perspectives derived from perception, complementarity, and legitimacy. Institutional capacity explains how operational dimensions of legal performance are affected by structural and relational dynamics of institutional purpose, location, orientation, and cohesion. The author also offers policy suggestions for more effective engagement with China on trade and human rights issues.

Case studies, success stories, and cross-country essays on public policy in East Asian economies

Treaties and International Agreements Registered or Filed and Recorded with the Secretariat of the United Nations