关键词: 争端解决, 策略选择, 报复, 羊群行为

Abstract: Based on the procedures of WTO dispute settlement, this paper mainly make a statistical analysis about dispute settlement strategies selection from the viewpoint of every stage, different economic level countries, herd behavior and some countries complainant and summarizes their characteristics. The results show that the complainants more and more favored the strategy of establishing a panel and being decided by the panel and chose the strategy of charring out the WTO Appellate Body decision in the majority dispute settlement cases. The complainants have chosen the strategy of implementing the retaliation after it request retaliation strategy and being WTO authorized retaliation, when the respondents didn’t carry out the WTO decision. Especially, the strategies selection of herd behavior in dispute settlement cases are similar with some countries complainants together and the complainant’s strategies choices of different economic level have certain some differences.

Key words: Dispute settlement, Strategies selection, Retaliation, Herd behavior