Simon Lester

I'm always up for a good debate about trade and globalization, so when the folks at American Compass asked me to comment on some of their recent work, I agreed to do so. American Compass is run by Oren Cass, a former Mitt Romney adviser who has moved

This post is by Jan Yves Remy, Director of the Shridath Ramphal Centre At a time when all is not well with international economic relations, a message of inclusiveness, equity and morality in trade appears to have resonated strongly in a room at the World Trade Organization (WTO) packed to

This is a guest post from Prof. Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, European University Institute Florence The geopolitical conflicts and related trade wars (eg against China and Russia), climate change and other environmental disasters, global health and food crises, Russia’s military invasions and war crimes in Ukraine confront the UN and WTO

This is a guest post by Victor Crochet* (trade lawyer and PhD candidate at Cambridge University) & Vineet Hegde (Doctoral Researcher at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven) Over the past few years, Western countries, and in particular, the European Union (“EU”), have been trying to rein