The WTO and FTAs - an East Asian perspective

• Main Author: Desker, Barry
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Social sciences::Political science::International relations; Social sciences::Political science::Political institutions::East Asia; Free Trade Agreements; WTO
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/155473
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

After the debacle of the Seattle World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference in December 1999, through to the failure of the Cancun meeting in September 2003, it has become fashionable to speak of the failure, even demise, of the WTO. Such a view has been fuelled primarily by the prolifera...