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An analysis of The World Trade Organisation as the international institution responsible for the development and monitoring of trade rules, as well as the adjudication of trade disputes when they arise.

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Patrick Leslie 14118122 BA (PPE) 1) An analysis of The World Trade Organisation as the international institution responsible for the development and monitoring of trade rules, as well as the adjudication of trade disputes when they arise. 2) The reasoning behind the collapse of the ministerial trade talks in Cancun, September 2003. Assignment two Political Science 222 Global Political Economy (GPE) Index: Introduction Pg.3 Events leading to an insecure foundation in Cancun. Pg.4 Why did the Cancun round fail? Pg.5 Conclusion Pg.7 Bibliography Pg.8 Introduction The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is an international organization designed to supervise and liberalize world trade, the WTO is the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which was created in 1947. (Britannica: 2004). The foundations of GATT where created at the Bretton Woods conference of 1944. At the conference allied leaders, "tried to create a new economic order that would prevent many of the interwar economic conflict and problems that led to World War ??." ( Balaam, Veseth: 116). The GATT...

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