... Second, the thesis will examine the development of trade dispute settlement mechanisms in five other major trade organisations, namely, the (GATT, the WTO, the EU, the North American Free Trade ... dichotomy and discusses the relevance of the ASEAN context to the implementation of the Protocol. It concludes with a discussion of the potential obstacles to the effective implementation of the ... ASEAN trade dispute settlement mechanism from diplomacy to legalism. Chapter 5 examines the early approaches to settling trade disputes in ASEAN, including trade disputes prior AFTA agreement, trade...