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

Nan Cheng; Fei Duan; Anqi Wang; Ruoxin Wang

doi:10.2991/assehr.k.211220.042

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

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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

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fei.duan@mail.mcgill.ca

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wanganq7@mail.sysu.edu.cn

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Ruoxin.wang19@student.xjtlu.edu.cn

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Those authors contributed equally.

^*Corresponding author. Email: ¹hiync1@nottingham.edu.cn

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Nan Cheng

Available Online 24 December 2021.

DOI: 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.042 How 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: 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.042
ISSN: 2352-5398
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