Eric Helleiner's new book provides a powerful corrective to conventional accounts of the
negotiations at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in 1944. These negotiations resulted in the …

We need a world trade organization. We just don't need the one that we have. By pitching
unequally matched states together in chaotic bouts of negotiating the global trade …

Food security emerged as a major source of political deadlock in the WTO Doha Round
negotiations. Concerns about food security only intensified at the WTO following the 2008 …

For scholars and practitioners of global economic governance (GEG), the onset of the crisis
in 2007–08 triggered deep cognitive dissonance. On the heels of beleaguered international …

This chapter aims to show the endurance of United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development (UNCTAD) as the source of heterodox ideas about trade and development. It …

The impact of the idea of 'development'in multilateral trade lawmaking is often reduced to the
principle of 'special and differential treatment', which exempts developing countries from …

Reflecting the same tensions that are manifest in the wider literature on China's international
relations, the literature on China and the World Trade Organization (WTO) is replete with …

I must say I share the view of those who say it is an impossible enterprise, and I must
confess, I embarked on it with a considerable amount of trepidation. It was entirely new …

South-South trade has become a core component of the contemporary trade debate, but the
idea of using preferential trade agreements among developing countries to foster …

On October 16, 1995, Renato Ruggerio, the second Director General of the WTO, delivered
the Paul-Henri Spaak Memorial Lecture at Harvard University. 1 Ruggerio began by …