The Governance of World Trade: International Civil Servants and the GATT/WTO

The Governance of World Trade focuses on the roles, influence and impacts of the so-called 'GATT operatives' or WTO practitioners. It is widely assumed that they have little influence on decisions and policies made, but, according to the authors, the GATT/WTO Secretariat has played an active role in promoting multilateral cooperation.

This unique study of the internal operation of the GATT/WTO argues that the invisible yet indispensable international civil servants are the permanent machiner...