Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 2 | Opponent: St Agnes EH | Judge: Patel, Vandan
Baschuk 4-27. ~(Bryce Baschuk is a Bloomberg Reporter) "WTO Chief Pursues a 'Hectic' Agenda to Fix World Trade's Referee," Bloomberg, April 27, 2021. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-27/wto-chief-pursues-a-hectic-agenda-to-fix-world-trade-s-referee~~
The head of the World Trade Organization raised an alarm about the credibility of the
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have some capacity to begin producing vaccines for people living in developing economies.
Meyer 6-18-21. ~(David Meyer is the Editor of CEO Daily and a senior writer on Fortune's European team. Author of the digital rights primer, Control Shift: How Technology Affects You and Your Rights. "The WTO's survival hinges on the COVID-19 vaccine patent debate, waiver advocates warn," Fortune, June 18, 2021. https://fortune.com/2021/06/18/wto-covid-vaccines-patents-waiver-south-africa-trips/~~
The World Trade Organization knows all about crises. Former U.S. President
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impact not in starting discussions but in getting deals over the finish line."
Evenett and Baldwin 20. ~(Simon J. Evenett is Professor of International Trade and Economic Development at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and Co-Director of the CEPR Programme in International Trade and Regional Economics. Richard E. Baldwin is a professor of international economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. "Revitalising multilateral trade cooperation: Why? Why Now? And How?" November 10, 2020. https://voxeu.org/content/revitalising-multilateralism-pragmatic-ideas-new-wto-director-general~~
Purposeful, pragmatic steps towards noble goals Archbishop Desmond Tutu, that tireless campaigner against
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century. Doing so will require revisiting the very purpose of the WTO.
Specifically, action now over Covid creates goodwill to establish global trade as a norm and preserve the relevance of the trading system post-Covid.
González 20. ~(Anabel Gonzalez is a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute and former Minister of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica "Revitalising multilateral trade cooperation: Why? Why Now? And How?" November 10, 2020. https://voxeu.org/content/revitalising-multilateralism-pragmatic-ideas-new-wto-director-general~~
EXTRAORDINARY TIMES DEMAND EXTRAORDINARY ACTION As of 2 November 2020, there are 46.
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lawyers, but it can only operate within the limits set by politicians.
Post Covid WTO legitimacy and credibility are necessary to prevent a downward spiral of protectionism.
Solís 20. ~(Mireya Solís is director of the Center for East Asia Policy Studies, Philip Knight Chair in Japan Studies, and a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. "The post COVID-19 world: Economic nationalism triumphant?" July 10, 2020. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/07/10/the-post-covid-19-world-economic-nationalism-triumphant/~~
The damage caused by the worst global health crisis in a century is vast.
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in the current crisis, Japan has much to contribute to these efforts.
Lake 18. ~(David Lake is a Professor of Social Sciences and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. "Economic Openness and Great Power Competition: Lessons for China and the United States," April 30, 2018. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3171196/~~
I develop two central arguments. First, historically, great power competition has been
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politics and grand strategy,14 and systemic theories of international relations.15
Hamann 09. ~(Georgia Hamann is a J.D. Candidate, Vanderbilt University Law School, "Replacing Slingshots with Swords: Implications of the Antigua-Gambling 22.6 Panel Report for Developing Countries and the World Trading System," 2009.~
Voluntary compliance with WTO rules and procedures is of the utmost importance to the international
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keenly aware of the responsibility they have to uphold the organization's credibility. 108