Peter Gallagher

The US Army has come under fierce crit­i­cism from aid agen­cies and from their British allies for ‘sell­ing water’ to poor peo­ple in Umm Qasr (Iraq). If this ...

Oth­er­wise intel­li­gent peo­ple are appar­ent­ly puz­zled about what the USA could get out of a Free Trade Agree­ment with Aus­tralia and, see­ing noth­ing ob...

Sup­pose all you want­ed to do was to reduce the aver­age legal rate of duty around the world (the bound rate in WTO-speak) down to the rate actu­al­ly being ap...

Here are three rea­sons for trad­ing busi­ness­es to take seri­ous­ly a free trade agree­ment between Aus­tralia and the USA. First: it will be big.  The W...

Le Monde sticks it to Wash­ing­ton. But they’re close to cor­rect about the nature of the fail­ures that will con­tin­ue to echo in oth­er quar­ters. The cur­re...

meta-cre­ation_­date: March 18, 2003 The WTO Direc­tor-Gen­er­al Supachai Pan­itch­pak­di has been quot­ed by the New York Times express­ing con­cern that the d...

He was, in fact, say­ing that no mat­ter which of two hypo­thet­i­cal out­comes of a vote on the sec­ond Secu­ri­ty Coun­cil ‘ulti­ma­tum’ might occur, France d...