Nothing to see here
Is there any point in continuing to puzzle over trade policy and agreements? Do they really make any difference to anything? It seems they’ve become ...
Tag: multilateralism
“Critical Mass” on US business agenda
The US National Foreign Trade Council has released a short paper (PDF file) endorsing a “critical mass” (CM) approach to new WTO-associated trade agree...
Multilateral misalignment
Over at the Lowy Institute, Michael Wesley has opened a debate on the multilateralism with a brief dyspeptic review, characterising multilatera...
The falling value of tariff bindings
The strongest argument for completing the WTO’s barely enduring Doha round of trade negotiations is that it will further narrow the legal right of WTO...
The obsolecence of WTO
Daniel Altman exaggerates just barely when he warns of the obsolescence of WTO in a Newsweek column in honour of this week’s WTO General Council meet...
Multilateralism not a ‘single undertaking’
More commentary—this time from the President of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations—on the significance of the Copenhagen meeting as one of the fi...
Cheering for ‘democracy’
Rachman—who's normally pretty astute—assesses the emblematic events in Copenhagen as a blow to the U.S. program of 'spreading democracy'. "As emer...