The processes of legal and economic integration at a regional and global scale have created powerful legal and economic dilemmas. They challenge the paradigms of constitutionalism,including the State's monopoly of constitutionalism, the autonomy of national political communities and the traditional forms of participation and representation. The phenomena of globalisation and regional forms of governance have promoted the inter-dependence of national political communities and destroyed the artificial boundaries upon which national constitutional democracies are found and from which they derive their legitimacy. Furthermore, it is inevitable that the development of international trade and economic integration will raise claims for some form of global distributive justice to complement the wealth maximisation arising from free trade. This will come from the gradual development of global forms of political discourse and law-making, challenging State constitutionalism and requiring some of the instruments and theories of constitutionalism.The essays in this collection, written by leading scholars in international trade law, argue the pros and cons of greater regional and global regulation. They conclude that whatever the final framework for international trade, the critical decisions about institutional form and content will be decided in an emerging global political arena. They help to identify this political arena, who governs it, and according to which rules, and identify the different institutional alternatives in that global political arena.

1. Governing Economic Globalisation: Global Legal Pluralism and EU LawFrancis Snyder2. The Constitution of the Global MarketMiguel Poiares Maduro3. North American Economic Integration: Implications for the WTO, the EU and AsiaFrederick M Abbott4. Establishing the Rules of the Game: Domestic Structures and Unfair Trade InstrumentsCandido Garcia Molyneux5. Indian Foreign Policy on the Threshold of the Twenty-first CenturyRajendra K Jain6. Courts and Regional IntegrationMary L Volcansek7. China's Economic Development and the WTO Membership Issue: Stakes and StrategiesFrançois Gipouloux8. The WTO as the Legal Foundation of International Commercial Relations: Current Status and Options for the Next DecadeRichard Blackhurst9. Global and Regional Regulatory Changes of Foreign Direct Investment: Challenges and Opportunities for the ASEAN in the Wake of Recent TurmoilSuthiphand Chirathivat10. The Compatibility of the Chinese Anti-dumping Regulations with the WTO Anti-dumping AgreementZeng Lingliang and Han Zhen11. China's Trade Policy and its ImplicationsHuang Weiping12. Regionalism, Open Regionalism and Article XXIV GATT: Conflicts and HarmonySung-Hoon Park13. Economic Law Reform Dealing with the Asian Financial TurmoilZhang Yuejiao