Recent trends across Europe and America suggest that the liberal international order is increasingly changing. The changes are evident in the rise of new nationalism following the Brexit referendum of 2016 and subsequent exit of the UK from EU, the Catalonia independence referendum of 2017, the...

The economic crisis has sparked fears about emerging protectionism and created wide interest in initiatives to monitor trade policies. The WTO regularly examines its members' trade policies - but its reports tend to be superficial and uncritical. How could they be improved to become a more...

Existing theories make divergent predictions about the impact of new powers on the global political economy. Some argue that a more even distribution of power will erode international cooperation, while others argue that cooperation can continue with the help of international institutions to...

A collection of working papers for an ICTSD dialogue in Geneva in June 2011, that gave top experts' views about China's participation in the WTO and its impacts on its trading partners and global trade governance

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Overview -- 1 Laying the foundations of a fair and free world trade system -- 2 Balancing competing interests: The future role of the WTO -- 3 Rebuilding confidence in the multilateral trading system: Closing the "legitimacy gap" -- 4 Making the...