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History and future of the World Trade Organization.
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History,” wrote James Baldwin, “does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the
contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are
unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.” It
is in this spirit that I have commissioned The History and Future of the World Trade Organization.
The purpose of this work is to not only tell us about our past, but to explain our present and to
inform our future.
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) arose in 1947 out of the ashes of the
Second World War, as did the International Monetary Fund and what we now know as the
World Bank. It was the product of unprecedented international cooperation by an international
community that was deeply scarred by the damage and destruction that endless warfare had
brought about; an international community searching for an entirely new beginning and a new
international order. While GATT certainly ushered in a new era of international cooperation, it
nonetheless had to weather the aborted effort to create the International Trade Organization,
pressures of numerous other national and regional conflicts, and the entire Cold War, before
eventually morphing into the WTO. Over a decade and a half later, it is now high time for a
history of the WTO – the successor organization that inherited GATT.
Craig VanGrasstek - Personal Name
1st edition
978-92-870-3871-5
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History and future of the World Trade Organization.
Management
English
World Trade Organization
2013
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