This paper argues that deadlock in the Doha Round of trade negotiations is due to the increasing complexity of economic globalization. It represents a transformative shift on the part of Member nations away from the current model of trade multilateralism and towards smaller negotiating...

The post-1945 multilateral trade system was built on hundreds of rules about investment, state subsidies, non-discrimination, comparative advantage, predatory pricing and standards-setting. It is also a system of many legal silences and low-level unenforceable aspirational language about labour...

This paper explores the strategy and assumptions that are pushing the Doha Round into dangerously troubled waters, and it assesses the different agendas on the table. It summarizes how we reached the current deadlock, and examines the state of the WTO's legal dispute mechanism. It then...