The editors have succeeded in bringing together an excellent mix of leading scholars and practitioners.No book on the WTO has had this wide a scope before or covered the legal framework, economic and political issues, current and would-be countries and a outlook to the future like these three volumes do.3000 pages, 80 chapters in 3 volumes cover a very interdiscplinary field that touches upon law, economics and politics.

With more than eighty chapters, this three-volume work - described by the current Director-General of the World Trade Organization as an "outstanding contribution" to understanding the world trading system - is by far the most comprehensive study yet undertaken of the WTO.

Table of Cases.- Foreword.- Introduction .- An Interpretative History of the Uruguay Round Negotiation.- The Politics of Trade Policy Development:The New Complexity.- The Democratic Roots of the Trade Organization.- Institutional Framework.- GATT 1994.- The Agreement on Agriculture.- The Agreement on the Application Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures.- The Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade.- The Agreement on Textiles and Clothing.- The Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures.- The Anti-Dumping Agreement.- The Agreement on Customs Valuation.- The Agreement on Pre-Shipment Inspection.- The Agreement on Import Licensing Procedures.- The Agreement on Rules of Origin.- The Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures.- Injury Determinations in Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duty Investigations.- The Agreement on Safeguards.- The General Agreement on Trade in Services.- Financial Services.- Telecommunications Services.- The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights.- The Agreement on Government Procurement.- The Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft and Other Issues Relating To Civil Aircraft in the GATT/WTO System.- Consultations.- Panel Proceedings.- Appellate Body Proceedings.- Implementation and Enforcement of the WTO Agreements .- Non-Violation Revisited.- Some Thoughts on the Appellate Body.- The Application of Non-WTO Rules of International Law in WTO Dispute Settlement.- The Intervention of Private Entities and States as 'Friends of the Court' in WTO Dispute Settlement Proceedings.- The WTO Agreement in European Community Law: Status, Effect and Enforcement.- Special and Differential Treatment of Developing Countries.- National Security.- Tariff Classification.- Economic Principles of International Trade.- Computational Analysis of Multilateral Trade Liberalization in the Uruguay Round and Doha Development Round.- Safeguards.- Anti-Dumping and Competition Law.-Subsidies and Countervailing Measures.- Agriculture.- Environmental Issues.- Labor Standards.- Services ¿ Postal versus Express Delivery Services.- Regional Trade Arrangements --A Legal Analysis.- The Economies in Transition, the WTO and Regionalism .- Rules of Origin and Rules of Preference and the World Trade Organization: The Challenge to Global Trade Liberalization.- Services in Regional Trading Arrangements.- Rules for Foreign Direct Investment at the WTO: Building on Regional Trade Agreements.- Regional Trading Arrangements and Developing Countries.- Least Developed Countries in the Multilateral Trading System.- Textiles and Developing Countries.- The TRIPS Agreement and Developing Countries.- Trade-Related Technical Cooperation and Capacity Building.- Trade and Electronic Commerce.- Trade and Competition Policy.- Trade and Environment.- Trade and Labor I.- Trade and Labor II.- Trade and Human Rights I.- Trade and Human Rights II.- Trade and Gender.- Trade and Culture.- Argentina.- Canada.- China .- Colombia.- Egypt.- The European Union.- Indonesia.- Japan.- Korea.- Mexico.- Mongolia .- New Zealand.- Russia.- Singapore.- South Africa.- United States.- Pursuing Global Free Trade: A Small Open Economy Perspective.- Global Integration ¿ Currents and Countertrends.- APPENDIX - WTO MINISTERIAL DECLARATIONS ¿ Singapore, Geneva, Doha, and Cancun.