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Adam Smith famously described the marketplace as being guided by an " invisible hand" . The modern international marketplace is guided by a set of rules of the game embodied in the visible hand of the World Trade Organization (WTO) . This book describes the WTO from its post-WWII beginnings in the General Agreement on Tariff and Trade (GATT) through a series of negotiated enhancements of these agreements. It describes the WTO's origins, structure and growth pains as it has had to face challenges from within and without. Case studies illuminate the diplomatic and domestic political issues accompanying the difficult decisions confronted by the WTO.

Kevin Buterbaugh is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Southern Connecticut State University. He has also written articles and reviews in the areas of U.S. Defense Policy, International Relations, Political Economy and U.S. State and Local Politics.

Richard Fulton is Professor of Political Science at Northwest Missouri State University. He is Moderator of the Missouri London Program and helped initiate the Maastricht Center for Transatlantic Studies. He has edited a book on the American Revolution and written several articles and reviews on political anthropology and political economy including a recent bibliographic essay on the WTO in Choice Magazine.

List of Figures	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
History and Development of the GATT/WTO	p. 13
The GATT Rounds	p. 15
The Uruguay Round and the Creation of the WTO	p. 39
The WTO: Structures, Issues, and Challenges	p. 67
The World Trade Organization: Cases and Controversies	p. 85
The Great Banana War	p. 87
The Beef Over Beef: Food Safety Standards and the WTO	p. 105
Enter the Dragon: China's Accession into the WTO	p. 123
The Battle in Seattle	p. 145
The Look to the Future	p. 163
The New Round: Doha and Cancun	p. 165
Conclusions: Foundations for the New Round	p. 177
Appendix 3.1	p. 191
Notes	p. 195
Bibliography	p. 209
Index	p. 225
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The WTO Primer Tracing Trade's Visible Hand through Case Studies

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