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The WTO Primer

Tracing Trade’s Visible Hand Through Case Studies

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  • © 2007

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Introduction

  2. History and Development of the GATT/WTO

  3. The World Trade Organization: Cases and Controversies

  4. The Look to the Future

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This book describes the WTO from its post-WWII beginnings in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade through a series of negotiated enhancements of these agreements. It describes the WTO's origins, structure, and growing pains as it has had to face challenges from within and without.

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"Buterbaugh and Fulton provide a highly accessible account of the history and trajectory of the World Trade Organization (WTO) that can be useful to the novice reader interested in learning about the organization, or the observer aiming to understand its complex institutional matrix." - Choice

About the authors

KEVIN BUTERBAUGH is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Southern Connecticut State University, USA. 

RICHARD FULTON is Professor of Political Science at Northwest Missouri State University, USA. 

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