The WTO has not been able to recover since the collapse of the Doha Round in July 2008. Several ministerial conferences … to reform the WTO in 2018 and 2019. This book argues that the Trump Administration reform proposals have been much more … the proposals and called for the WTO to be development-oriented and inclusive. This book provides a critical analysis of …

The Marrakesh Agreement establishing the WTO recognizes the need for positive efforts designed to ensure that … developing countries and especially the least developed among them secure a share in the growth in international trade … commensurate with the needs of their economic development.This article discusses how the WTO contributes to facilitating Africa …

A large and growing number of countries participate in multiple preferential trade agreements (PTAs), which … increasingly entail broad cooperation over policies extending far beyond trade barriers. I review the traditional and … nontraditional motives for PTAs and their empirical determinants as well as their impacts on trade and on multilateral liberalization …

States-China trade war and the cascading response of the countries around the world to the COVID-19 pandemic. While the …In 2019 and the early months of 2020, global trade faced two major albeit very different shocks, namely the United … broad swathe of tradeables that made a global trade environment highly unpredictable, the latter has seen entire production …

's integration into the international community / Fan Yongming -- Trade policy and regulatory politics: China's WTO implementation in …Preface / Joseph Caron -- Introduction: International political economy and explanations of China's globalization … comparative perspective / Margaret M. Pearson -- Hinges and latches on the open door: the normative parameters of China's WTO …