We are experiencing a tumultuous period in global politics, with international economic governance facing a period of great uncertainty. Meanwhile, since the de facto collapse of the WTO's Doha Round, a plethora of preferential agreements has begun to supplant the WTO's rule-making function and...

The Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement) is a complex agreement under the umbrella of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and concerns the interplay between governmental measures concerning risk for human, animal and plant life or health, the necessary scientific...

Food safety plays an increasingly important role in today's interdependent trading relations. The existing multilateral rules embodied in the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures are increasingly being supplemented through a series of...

Political conflict is often described in terms of “left” and “right” even though societal conflicts stem from various sub-dimensions such as economic and cultural issues. We argue that individuals map parties’ left-right positions based on party positions on such underlying dimensions,...

The international trade regime was a sea of tranquillity for a long time. It was the domain of trade economists and trade lawyers, tucked away at the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the shores of Lake Geneva. The trade regime as it has developed is being undermined by the twin forces of...

Published on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Organization, the so-called Sutherland Report was to address institutional challenges in the new millennium. This commentary analyzes the report's underlying notion of the organization's self-understanding and critically...