A WTO If You Can Keep It

"A WTO If You Can Keep It"

Steve Charnovitz

30 November 2019

This is a brief announcement of my new essay "A WTO if you can keep it" published in Questions of International Law, November 2019.

The essay provides a historical account of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and examines the numerous challenges facing the WTO today.  In particular, the essay looks at:

--the step-by-step development of the world trading system beginning in the 19th century,

--the growing disaffection by the US government from a law-based international order,

--the failure of the WTO to honor its commitments to China,

--how the WTO Appellate Body passed up an opportunity to save WTO dispute settlement, and

--the Paris versus Geneva standards for international rulemaking on climate and trade.

The essay is available at http://www.qil-qdi.org/a-wto-if-you-can-keep-it/.