When states negotiate multilaterally they often call on ambassadors, ministers, or secretariat leaders to play the role of broker or mediator to help them overcome impasses. Yet little is known about how this role is played, what choices these mediators make with what consequences, or how the...

If WTO members wish to launch a new round to follow Doha, setting the agenda will require a complex negotiation as in the past, however Doha ends. To reduce the serious information problems they face and prepare the way, advocates should commission an independent research team to produce a...

Since 1997 efforts by member states of the World Trade Organization to negotiate multilateral decisions, at the ministerial level and below, have been less efficient and less legitimate than many would prefer. Yet proposals for formal changes to decision-making institutions have not achieved...