"Short Description The Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization provides an authoritative and cutting-edge account of the World Trade Organization - what it does, how it goes about fulfilling its tasks, its achievements and problems, and how it might contend with some critical challenges"--

Introduction -- Birth of the prodigal: GATT, Uruguay round and the WTO -- Unhappiness of the South -- The millennium round: a flop show -- Between Seattle and Doha: putting Humpty Dumpty together again -- Doha negotiations: Phase I -- Doha negotiations: Phase II -- Epilogue