Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. What Shapes National Trade Policy -- 2. Making Trade Relations Work -- 3. Trade Cooperation before 1914 -- 4. The Failed Attempts of the Interwar Years -- 5. The Founding of the Postwar System -- 6. The First...

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