THE RESISTANCE OF INDIA TOWARD WTO AGREEMENT IN THE 9TH MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE IN BALI 2013
Abstract
This thesis aims to describe the resistance of India toward Bali Package at the 9th Ministerial Conference of WTO 2013, which reject the argument of United States who wants to abolish the food subsidies. In fact, if the subsidy was abolished, it will influence the food security of India. The existence of India as one of developing country members in WTO, forced the India government to create regulation to safe its people. Considering India as one of the agricultural country with the second highest number of population in the world.
The author collects data from website, mass media, and book to analyze the resistance factors of India toward the WTO agreement in the 9th Ministerial Conference 2013. The theories applied in this thesis are foreign policy theory from K.J Holsty and national interest concept.