In Episode #80, we are joined by Gregory Schaffer, author of Emerging Powers and the World Trading System. We discuss:
- Greg's career path, from an early interest in history and foreign affairs to being a regular visitor at the WTO in Geneva.
- How the development of international trade law capacities helped make Brazil, China, and India supporters of the international trade system established at the behest of the United States.
- Was China's accession to the WTO cause or effect?
- What consitutes international trade law capacity? What role do lawyers play?
- The U.S.'s paradoxical shift from shaper of the international trade system to revisionist power that undermines said system.
- Emerging powers in the international trade law sphere.
- The economic Cold War between China and the United States.
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We’ll see you next week for another exciting and informative episode when we sit down with David Sargsyan to learn more about Armenia.