The system was designed to prevent conflicts through agreed rules rather than military might. Over time, it incorporated agreements on trade, finance, security in addition to institutions such as the ...

Professor Petros C. Mavroidis is Edwin B. Parker Professor of Foreign and Comparative Law at Columbia Law School. He is a distinguished academic and faculty member, having written award-winning titles ...

Chairman Wolfgang Ischinger tells DW the 2026 Munich Security Conference comes when "obviously, trust has been damaged" by ...

Successfully reforming the WTO is a matter of life and death for the organisation, warns the facilitator of talks on revamping the global trade body. A full 72 percent of global trade still operates ...

Jane Kelsey is affiliated with a number of international NGOs that monitor and advise on developments in international trade law and the WTO. This all signals the collapse of a global system that has ...

Ian Bell’s retrospective view of the 1999 WTO protests depicts an inflection point in the history of American protest, the police state, and the new economic order. By 10 a.m. on the morning of ...

The new complaint is aimed at changes the Trump administration would make to shift significant functions from the department to other federal agencies. By Michael C. Bender Reporting from Washington A ...

From electronic health records and blood tests to the stream of data from wearable devices, the amount of health information people generate is accelerating rapidly. Yet, many users struggle to ...

A logo is pictured on the headquarters of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, Switzerland, June 2, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse GENEVA (Reuters) -A group of states is seeking to extend a ...

China has formalized the new role of top trade negotiator Li Chenggang, dropping him from the post of permanent representative to the World Trade Organization, the official news agency Xinhua said on ...

Biosafety hawks were initially optimistic that the incoming second Trump administration would at last place binding constraints on so-called "dangerous gain-of-function" research, in which pathogens ...