- the advent of a radically different world economy, and the explosion of the world's population. As these forces are … unleashed, the world's nation-states - weakened by their increasingly unhelpful territorial and hierarchical constructs - will …

Since the 1950s, world trade has grown much faster than global economic production. Meanwhile, China has surpassed … Partnership, have attained dominance in the world trading system in recent years. Some of the well-known weaknesses of regionalism … world trading system require a strengthening of the WTO's multilateral system. But the current bilateral and regional trade …