This Cancun meeting ought to end like the last one, with the kleptocrats sent packing with copies of the Collected Economic Wisdom of the Gipper as the best prescription for dealing with climate change.

Why did the World Trade Organizationtalks in Cancun collapse?

At the WTO Cancun Meeting, U.S. negotiators must find a balance between compromise and assertiveness to overcome soured U.S.-EU relations.

AEI trade experts and economists will hold a briefing on Monday, September 8, from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. The agenda will focus on substantive negotiations and prospects for success or failure at the Cancun WTO Ministerial Meeting, which will be held from September 10 through September 14, 2003. Issues...

The collapse of the WTO trade talks in Cancun on Sunday has revealed deep and bitter differences between the developed and the developing WTO member nations and has placed in jeopardy the successful conclusion of the Doha Round of trade negotiations. At this briefing, AEI scholars Claude E. Barfield, Kevin...

The international diplomacy of climate change is the most implausible and unpromising initiative since the disarmament talks of the 1930s, and for many of the same reasons; that the Kyoto Protocol and its progeny are the climate diplomacy equivalent of the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 that promised to end war (a treaty that is still on the books, by the way), and finally, that future historians are going to look back on this whole period as the climate policy equivalent of wage and price controls to fight inflation in the 1970s.

The panel will focus on the aspects for the Doha Agenda most closely linked to economic development. It will examine linkages that are positive, such as tariff liberalization of agriculture, and those that are negative, such as giving developing countries partial or complete exemption from liberalizing their own barriers....

A new regional organization excludes the two critical economic partners of many of the region's nations, while distracting from many important issues.