Discusses the various challenges the WTO faces and provides policy-relevant ideas to reform WTO governance.

1. Introduction Thomas Cottier and Manfred Elsig; 2. The origins and back to the future: a conversation with Ambassador Julio Lacarte; 3. After globalization? WTO reform and the new global political economy Tony McGrew; 4. Internal measures in the multilateral trading system: where are the borders of the WTO agenda? Marion Jansen; 5. Legitimising global economic governance through transnational parliamentarisation: how far have we come? How much further must we go? Markus Krajewski; 6. Adapting to new power balances: institutional reform in the WTO Amrita Narlikar; 7. Delegation chains, agenda control, and political mobilisation: how the EU Commission tries to affect domestic mobilisation on the DDA Bart Kerremans; 8. Developing countries and monitoring WTO commitments in response to the global economic crisis Chad Bown; 9. Exploring the limits of institutional coherence in trade and development Kent Jones; 10. The WTO as a 'living instrument': the contribution of consensus decision-making and informality to institutional norms and practices Mary Footer; 11. Crisis situations and consensus seeking: adaptive decision making in the FAO and applying its lessons to the reform of the WTO Robert Kissack; 12. A post-Montesquieu analysis of the WTO Steve Charnovitz; 13. Reforming the WTO: the decision-making triangle revisited Manfred Elsig and Thomas Cottier; 14. Barriers to WTO reform: intellectual narrowness and the production of path-dependent thinking Rorden Wilkinson.