International trade scholars Douglas Irwin of Dartmouth College and Petros Mavroidis of Columbia University Law School have completed a study of the motivations and goals that underpinned the creation of the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) at the end of World War II. Given the dire straits of...

Considering new U.S. domestic political realities, diplomatic and security imperatives will pose a huge challenge for the next president and Congress as they attempt to advance national interests.

Although unilateral freeing of trade is generally less beneficial than reciprocity, it can trigger "sequential" reciprocity through example or by encouraging lobbies abroad to favor trade expansion.

It is almost half a century since the great and the good of the postwar Western world forged a new economic order, based on the belief that a regime of liberalized trade would increase human welfare. 

Despite critics' claims to the contrary, the upcoming lame-duck session will not be revolutionary, conspiratorial, or anti-democratic, but instead just more of the same, like its many predecessors.

Zhu Rongji's visit to Washington highlights a potentially major clash between the United States and China.

Protectionism is just as harmful as it ever was--it has just become more difficult to recognize.

The democratic legitimacy of the WTO would bestrengthened if the member states chose a politically astute director-generaland then gave hima more powerful mandate to lead.