Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)

A Constructivist Approach to Saudi Arabia’s Accession and Compliance to the WTO

Authors
Nan Cheng1, *, , Fei Duan2, , Anqi Wang3, , Ruoxin Wang4,
1Nottingham Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
2McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
3Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
4Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Those authors contributed equally.

*Corresponding author. Email: 1hiync1@nottingham.edu.cn
Corresponding Author
Nan Cheng
Available Online 24 December 2021.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211220.042How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Saudi Arabia; WTO; 2005; Constructivism; Social Identity; Islam
Abstract

After a tardy, dilatory negotiation for more than twelve years, the WTO (formerly known as the GATT) had finally accepted Saudi Arabia’s accession request in 2005. The essay aims to explain Saudi Arabia’s accession to WTO through the theory of constructivism with studies of several cases. The authors firstly introduce constructivism as a theoretical approach to explain Saudi Arabia’s accession, and then demonstrate empirical studies including Saudi Arabia’s compliance to WTO and disputes declare a “dual identity” quality considering its national conditions. Ultimately, according to constructivism, the essay draws the conclusion that Saudi Arabia’s prospect in WTO could be expectable, as well as unpredictable.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
24 December 2021
ISBN
978-94-6239-495-7
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211220.042How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
Open Access
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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