WTO城堡必须经受南方国家挑战--读陈安教授《关于WTO法治、立法、执法、守法与变法之法理思考》有感

WTO Citadel Needs to Be Challenged by the South——A Comment on and an Essay Prompted by Professor An Chen's Article “Some Jurisprudential Thoughts upon WTO's Law-Governing,Law-Making,Law-Enforcing,Law-Abiding,and Law Reforming”

陈安教授在其论文中不仅直指GATT/WTO这一体制"堡垒"存在的某些重大结构性的政策问题,同时也科学地剖析和总结了60年来发展中国家为在这个国际贸易治理机制中获得平权地位和应有权益所进行的长期努力。故此文"应当成为所有发展中国家领导人及决策者必读和必学的主题文件","也应当成为发展中国家政府各部门、各所大学、高等研究机构培训有关干部的必修课的一部分"。历史显示:南方国家在GATT/WTO中发起的挑战,虽初见成效,前景光明,但发达国家一直抵制对其进行重大变革。然而事实证明,通过独立自主的南南联合自强,展示榜样的实力,通过建立"具有南南特色的经济秩序"和相互关系,南南"轴心"能够有效地改善和挑战寓于WTO之中的不公现状,能够有效地向北方国家施加压力。陈教授的文章呼吁推动国际经济法和国际经济秩序的除旧布新,这是若干主要发展中国家义不容辞的责任。今年5月初在多哈召开的UNCTAD第十三届大会所呈现的南北对峙态势、双方最终的妥协以及新的"多哈授权"(DohaMandate)的达成,再次印证了陈教授的上述学术主张和法理思考。

Professor Chen addresses some vital,structural and policy issues concerning the GATT/WTO institutional stronghold and the now 60-years old efforts of the developing countries to secure a rightful place in this mechanism for governing international trade and to have their specific conditions and development needs properly recognized.These initial and promising inroads of the South in GATT/WTO were resisted from any significant change by the developed countries.The South-South ＂axis＂ may prove an effective way to advance and challenge the global status quo embodied in WTO,and pressure the North and push reforming international economic law and international economic order by power of example of collective,autonomous self-reliance and by establishing in mutual relations elements of an ＂economic order with South-South characteristics＂.Professor Chen＇s paper shall be made subject for required reading and study by leaders and policy makers in all developing countries＂,and ＂should also be part of the curriculum in developing countries＇ ministries,universities and institutes of higher learning＂.The most recent event that the North-South confrontation,South-South coalition,North-South compromise as well as eventually the new ＂Doha Mandate＂ consensus,all of which happened in the UNCTAD XIII Conference during early May of 2012,once again evidences Prof.Chen＇s academic views and jurisprudential thoughts.