On Life Support: Can the World Trade Organization be Saved?
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-2025
Abstract
The World Trade Organization was created with fanfare 30 years ago to complete a triad of global economic institutions (along with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank) envisioned by postwar internationalists. Yet within a few years of its founding – long before the first election of the protectionist-minded Donald Trump – the organization was aging badly. The next four years may well determine if it survives as a working entity at all.
Disciplines
International Trade Law | Law
Recommended Citation
Douglas A. Irwin & Petros C. Mavroidis,
On Life Support: Can the World Trade Organization be Saved?,
2025(2)
Milken Inst. Rev.
(2025).
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