A comprehensive textbook account of the economics, institutional mechanics and politics of the world trading system. This third edition has been expanded and updated to cover developments in the WTO since its formation, including the Doha Round, presenting the essentials of trade negotiations and the WTO's rules and disciplines.

Deals with the lofty ambitions of the controversial World Trade Organization - and thereby, of globalization itself - and explains why free trade is not the answer to poverty and inequity.

This book is the first attempt to suggest a comprehensive modification of the current GATT/WTO disciplines to better facilitate development in impoverished countries.

This book chronicles how a controversial set of policy assumptions about the Japanese economy, known as revisionism, rose to become the basis of the trade policy approach of the Clinton administration, and details how Japan refused to accept US trade solutions and fought to discredit revisionism.

Offers a new perspective on the roles of the state and multilateral corporations in changing patterns of international trade.

Offers a new perspective on the roles of the state and multilateral corporations in changing patterns of international trade.

Tells the human story behind the products we consume. Examining the contest between 'free' and 'fair' trade around the world, this work argues that the key question is not whether trade should be regulated or deregulated, but whether it is to be the master or servant of the people.

Addresses institutional reform of the WTO. This book focuses on five critical areas for reform: transparency, decision making and rule making procedures, internal management structures, participation by non-governmental organisations and civil society, and relationships with regional trade agreements.

This critical analysis of contractual escape and punishment in the WTO proposes a politically realistic and systemically viable reform agenda.

This book analyses the establishment and operation of international trade agreements, focusing on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. The book examines the economic rationale behind the current framework of international trade, and analyses the role of trade agreements in securing the benefits of a global economy.

Aims to document and explain almost ten years of experience of small states with the WTO.

Documents different experiences among economies in addressing the challenges of participating in the WTO.

World trade is governed by the rules of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The WTO sets rules of conduct for the international trade of goods and services and for intellectual property rights, provides a forum for multinational negotiations to resolve trade problems and has a formal mechanism for dispute settlement.

Drawing on a number of unique new datasets, the authors seek to explore in historical context the relationship between trade agreements and the flow of global trade, and to identify how governments and countries might unilaterally and collectively leverage trade agreements to increase trade and prosperity.

When it came into force in 1994, NAFTA joined the economic futures of Canada, Mexico and the US, with rules governing trade and investment, dispute resolution and economic relations. This text discusses the future of North America and suggests the establishment of a North American Commission.

This comprehensive reference explores the key issues and opinions in agricultural trade liberalization from a developing country perspective. Chapters cover topics including: market access; domestic support policies; export competition policies; regional trade agreements; and food security.

A study of regional arrangements covering ASEAN, SAARC and APEC in Asia, NAFTA and MERCOSUR in the Americas, SADC, SACU and ECOWAS in Africa, and the European Union, EFTA and Eastern Europe. The book argues that foreign direct investment is complementary to trade.

Written by WTO trade specialists, this book presents an overview of the law and practice of the World Trade Organisation. It also deals with the consequences of globalization: where WTO law confronts legal regimes governing issues of competition and intellectual property, and where free trade is seen to be incompatible with certain human rights.