International trade and law of the WTO -- The World Trade Organization -- WTO dispute settlement -- Most favoured nation treatment -- National treatment -- Tariff barriers -- Non-tariff barriers -- General and security exceptions -- Economic emergency exceptions -- Regional trade exceptions --...

20 Years of the WTO: A retrospective provides an overview of the first two decades of the arbiter of the multilateral trading system. A selection of compelling images and excerpts guides the reader through the history of the organization. Readers will uncover the origins, mission, composition,...

Since the WTO was established in 1995, 33 economies have joined the organization. This has resulted in over 20,000 pages of legal documents defining their specific terms of membership. These accessions have brought the WTO’s total membership to 161 economies, comprising more than 7 billion...

The World Trade Organization has recently seen a spate of disputes over provisions in an unfamiliar instrument, the Protocol of Accession. While the process of accession to the WTO is traditionally an intensely political, secretive and often protracted one, the focus of my research is on the...

Seventeen years have passed and Russia is still waiting for its accession to World Trade Organization (WTO). Hence, the feeling of frustration was evident for the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev even as, in October 2010, the US President Barack Obama extended his strong support for expediting...