How not to negotiate: the case of trade multilateralism.
Trade multilateralism would not have featured as a case of 'abject failure' had this special issue been planned in 2001. But since then, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has unfortunately become an almost perfect example of how not to negotiate, even when one takes into account the limited success...
| Published in: | International Affairs Vol. 98; no. 5; pp. 1553 - 1574 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2022
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