First published in 2012.

Part I: Theory of mulitilateral trade liberalization: The case for a multilateral trade organization / Robert E. Baldwin -- The inconsistent quartet; free trade versus competing goals / Martin Daunton -- Trade liberalization and domestic politics . Judith Goldstein -- Part II: Institutional evolution: building up the WTO: The International Trade Organisation / Richard Toye -- The expanding mandate of the GATT: The first seven rounds / Thomas W. Zeiler -- The Uruguay round negotiations and the creation of the WTO / Ernest H. Preeg -- Part III: Process behind the working of the WTO: The role of the Director-General and the Secretariat / Richard Blackhurst -- Defing the borders of the WTO agenda / Marion Jansen -- Collective agency, systemic consequences: bargaining coalitions in the WTO / Amrita Narlikar -- Part IV: Agency in the WTO: The influence of the EU in the World Trade System / Patrick A. Messerlin -- The role of the United States: A mulitilevel explanation for decreased support over time / Todd Allee -- The role of the BRICS in the WTO: System-supporters or change agents in the multilateral trade? / Brendan Vickers -- Least-developed countries in the WTO: Growing voice / Shishir Priyadarshi and Taufiqur Rahman -- Awkward partners: NGOs and the social movements at the WTO: Jens Steffek -- What happened to the influence of business? Corporations and organised labour in the WTO / Steve McGuire -- Part V: Substance of the agreements: Trade in manufactures and agricultural products: The dangerous length / Helen Coskeran, Dan Kim, and Amrita Narlikar -- Trade in services in the WTO: From Marrakesh (1994), to Doha (2001), to...(?) / Rudolf Adlung -- Trade-related intellectual property rights / Keith E. Maskus -- Flexibilities, rules and trade remedies in the GATT/WTO system / J. Michael Finger -- Regulatory measures / Robert Howse -- Part VI: Implementation and enforcement: The trade policy review mechanism / Sam Laird and Raymino Valdés -- Dispute settlement mechanism -- analysis and problems / Thomas Bernaur, Manfred Elsig, and Joost Pauwelyn -- The dispute settlement mechanism at the WTO: the Appellate Body -- assessment and problems / Mitsuo Matsushita -- WTO judicial interpretation / Gregory Schaffer and Joel Trachtman -- The dispute settlement mechamismL Ensuring compliance? / Alan O. Sykes -- Part VII: Challenges to the system: Persistent deadlock in multilateral trade negotiations: the case of Doha / Manfred Elsig and Cédric Dupont -- The role of domestic courts in the implementation of WTO law: The political economy of seperation powers and checks and balances in the International Trade Regulation / Thomas Cottier -- Preferential trading arrangements / Richard Baldwin -- New trade issues in food, agriculture, and natural resources / Tim Josling -- Part VIII: Normative issues: Fairness in the WTO trading system / Andrew G. Brown and Robert M. Stern -- Labour standards and human rights / Drusilla K. Brown -- Trade and the environment / Gary Hafbauer and Meera Fickling -- Part IX: Reform of the WTO: Proposals for WTO reforms: a synthesis and assessment / Bernard Hoekman -- The WTO and institutional (in) coherence in global economic governance / Steven Bernstein and Erin Hannah.