The WTO plays an important role in supporting efforts to achieve international regulatory cooperation (IRC) and to facilitate trade. First, the WTO provides a multilateral framework for trade among its 164 members, with a view to ensuring that trade flows as smoothly, predictably and freely as...

This paper analyzes the effects of trade-related party preferences, parliamentary and presidential elections, and other domestic political variables on the outcome of bilateral trade agreement negotiations within a two-level game framework. This paper focuses on bilateral trade negotiations such...