The World Trade Order: Global Governance by Judiciary?

Free Trade Agreements and Governance of the Global Trading System

IN 1995 when the WTO was established, it seemed to be final confirmation of the success of a system that had managed multilateral trade relations since 1947. It provided an institutional framework within which governments were not only able to negotiate reductions in trade barriers but also to bind themselves to rules of conduct that, in principle, were both universal and nondiscriminatory. Abo...

Bridging the divide: global governance of trade and health.

The main institutions responsible for governing international trade and health-the World Trade Organization (WTO), which replaced the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1995, and WHO-were established after World War 2. For many decades the two institutions operated in isolation, with little cooperation between them. The growth and expansion of world trade over the past half centur...

Wto: from Trade Organization to Node of Global Governance

Since its foundation ten years ago, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has become the focus of debate about governance of the world economy. It has been denounced by its critics and lauded by its supporters as a standard-bearer for free trade. In practice, it has become a central battle-ground over fairness and justice in a wide range of global economic regulation issues. The current suspension...

The World Trade Organization and global fisheries sustainability

The World Trade Organization and global fisheries sustainability Ussif Rashid Sumaila a,∗, Ahmed Khan a, Reg Watson a, Gordon Munro a,b, Dirk Zeller a, Nancy Baron c, Daniel Pauly a a Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z4 b Department of Economics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z4 c COMPASS, National Cent...

III Three Dimensions of Global Market Governance 7 Trade and the Global Network Revolution