The WTO released its fifth annual World Trade Report yesterday. These reports describe recent developments in international trade and include surveys of special topics.
This year the report celebrates the 60th anniversary of modern international trading system with a history of the GATT and the WTO.
This report was released yesterday, and it is 436 pages long, so don't expect a review. It does look good.
A short introduction gives a brief once over of the interwar trading system failure. Then the authors spend over 100 pages laying out economic, political economic, legal, and international relations theories of international trade cooperation. At page 179, the groundwork thoroughly prepared, they finally take up their history of the modern trading system.
This is likely to be a very useful reference.
There are two shorter surveys, one on the Information Technology Agreement, the other on global imbalances and world trade.
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