When Leviathan Comes to Market: Emerging Disciplines on State Intervention in Markets
Written at Georgetown after the financial crisis: what rules should apply when governments enter markets as owners, investors and competitors?
Syria at the Crossroads: A Review and Comparative Analysis of Syria’s Current Trade Policy Reality
Reflections on three assignments in Damascus in 2009: a snapshot of Syria’s trade policy before the civil war transformed its economic outlook.
Mainstreaming Trade in Micronesia: Turning Bilateral Dependency into Regional Competitiveness
Two assignments in Pohnpei in 2010, an unsuccessful effort to encourage WTO accession, and lessons on building competitiveness in a small island nation spanning a vast territory.
The Turkey Rice Case and its Implications for Indonesia: Turkey Gets Taken to Task Over Failing to Fulfill its Tariffication Obligations
A heads-up to Indonesia’s Trade Minister: why a WTO ruling against Turkey’s rice import restrictions exposed vulnerabilities much closer to home.
WTO Accession from the Perspective of WTO Members: The View from the Other Side of the Table
What I learned from advising countries seeking WTO membership—and sitting on the other side of the table as a Member’s delegate.
Causal Link, Non Attribution and Contingent Protection in the WTO
When do imports cause injury, and when does the legal test make safeguards too difficult to use? An early paper on WTO trade remedies, later presented in Seoul.
Effects for the Kyrgyz Republic after Joining the WTO
An early conference paper from my time at the World Trade Institute, asking what WTO membership had meant in practice for the Kyrgyz Republic.
The EC Bed Linen Dispute: India Challenges the EC’s Implementation of the WTO Antidumping Agreement
One of my first papers at the World Trade Institute: India’s challenge to European antidumping practices and the limits trade rules placed on investigating authorities.