The Impacts and Implications of Post-1995 Linkages Between the Codex Alimentarius Commission and the World Trade Organization: Politicization, Deadlock, and Dispute

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dc.contributor.authorPowell Thomas, Courtney Ireneen
dc.contributor.committeechairWeisband, Edwarden
dc.contributor.committeememberHult, Karen M.en
dc.contributor.committeememberRich, Richard C.en
dc.contributor.departmentPolitical Scienceen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:34:41Zen
dc.date.adate2006-06-13en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:34:41Zen
dc.date.issued2006-04-17en
dc.date.rdate2006-06-13en
dc.date.sdate2006-05-01en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines the impacts and implications of post-1995 linkages between the Codex Alimentarius Commission and the World Trade Organization. Chapters 1 and 2 provide data on the structures, functions, and procedures of the Codex Commission and the WTO and analyze their institutional approaches to risk, danger, risk management and the precautionary principle. Chapter 3 evaluates three impacts of post-1995 linkages between these institutions (the politicization of the Codex Commission, deadlock in the Codex standard elaboration process, and dispute in the WTO) as well as three implications of that linkage (risk v. danger assessment and management, changed interpretations of "science," and changed interpretations of "consensus"). Finally, Chapter 4 applies these impacts and implications to food safety cases. This chapter establishes a framework for understanding issues of food safety, Codex standard elaboration, and WTO dispute settlements in terms of scientific and political consensus and debate. This thesis argues, first, that the post-1995 linkage between the Codex Commission and the WTO changed Codex member state expectations and behaviors relative to standard elaboration procedures and that these changed expectations impacted both member state governments and the WTO. It further demonstrates that the extent of the Codex Commission's ability to elaborate universal standards and the WTO's responsibility for dispute settlement can be explained in terms of scientific and political dispute and consensus. Finally, it illustrates that risk and danger are different concepts, require different food safety approaches, and generate different institutional and national reactions. This analysis addresses existing critiques of the Codex Commission, the WTO, and their post-1995 linkages, examines the potential of both institutions to simultaneously pursue consumer safety and open trade objectives, and points to avenues for future research.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.identifier.otheretd-05012006-091048en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05012006-091048/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/32077en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartThesis.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectWorld Trade Organizationen
dc.subjectCodex Alimentarius Commissionen
dc.subjectTechnical Barriers to Trade Agreementen
dc.subjectAgreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytoen
dc.titleThe Impacts and Implications of Post-1995 Linkages Between the Codex Alimentarius Commission and the World Trade Organization: Politicization, Deadlock, and Disputeen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplinePolitical Scienceen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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