We cannot fully understand and improve global governance without understanding the process of negotiation in international organizations and other regimes. The strategies and tactics used by governments and official mediators partly determine whether negotiations end in impasse or agreement as...

Developing country governments obviously face a highly skewed power structure in multilateral trade negotiations, but they greatly increased their preparation, organization, and active participation after the Uruguay round (UR) and creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995. More...

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...

Negotiations among members of international institutions often stalemate yet the outcomes vary. Sometimes talks end in impasse and other times in agreement. Several familiar theories are unable to explain the contrast between two prominent outcomes in the World Trade Organization - its 1999...