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The Doha Round is Dead, Long Live Free Trade

By ⋅ July 30, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

The failure of the WTO trade talks is unfortunate and may accelerate the move to bilateral agreements. All countries, regardless of the justification of their stance, must ask if safeguard mechanisms are really the issue on which they should be playing endgame. Is that not yesterday’s battle?

Trade, Corporate Agendas, and Politics

By ⋅ November 28, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Bilaterals.org has an excellent article analyzing the dynamics of bilateral trade and investment agreements, their relation to transnational corporations, and the impact on the developing world. The report, Corporate conquest, global geopolitics: Intellectual property rights and bilateral investment treaties, goes far in examining the geopolitical negotiations as well as the agendas that drive these agreements: [...]

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