This book provides a strategy for liberalizing the aviation services industry.

This book discusses legalized protectionism in the World Trade Organization and what to do about it.

Kazakhstan’s negotiations to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) will have far-reaching consequences for its future economic and political development—the reforms demanded by WTO membership will determine whether the country moves along a path of market-based development or remains mired in dysfunctional command-and-control policies and institutions. WTO membership and the...

Jagdish Bhagwati, one of America’s leading economic and political analysts of international trade policy, has just completed a new book, Termites in the Trading System: How Preferential Agreements Undermine Free Trade (Oxford University Press/Council on Foreign Relations, June 2008). The theme and conclusions of Bhagwati’s study will be discussed at...

AEI has commissioned a series of sectoral studies analyzing the prospects for trade liberalization in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) 2000 negotiations. These negotiations were mandated by the Uruguay Round and are not affected by the failure to reach agreement on a new trade round in...

This book provides a strategy for liberalizing the aviation services industry.

Domestic markets will become more contestable and competition among firms across countries will intensify.