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

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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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nan Cheng
AU  - Fei Duan
AU  - Anqi Wang
AU  - Ruoxin Wang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/24
TI  - A Constructivist Approach to Saudi Arabia’s Accession and Compliance to the WTO
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 250
EP  - 255
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.042
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.042
ID  - Cheng2021
ER  -