"Populism and Trade traces the role of populist trade policy in the increase of global protectionism and the erosion of international trade institutions. Populist anti-trade rhetoric played a major part in U.S. President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign, in which he portrayed current trade...

This paper focuses on the choice of an institutional framework to link trade policy to environmental issues. Current institutional constraints limit the WTO system to contractual relationships based on the gains from trade and militate against the inclusion of an "environmental chapter". These...