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Article: The wto as battleground - A Realist Revival.(analysis of World Trade Organization and role of United States in international trade)(Statistical Data Included)
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- The World and I
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- March 1, 2001
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William R. Hawkins is a visiting fellow at the U.S. Business and Industry Council.
In the platform the Republican Party adopted in Philadelphia, President Clinton is criticized because "world trade talks in Seattle that the current administration had sponsored collapsed in spectacular failure." What this failure is to be attributed to is not specified. In an interview with the South China Morning Post at the GOP convention, Lawrence Lindsey, a top adviser to George W. Bush, seemed to blame the protesters outside the Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) for the breakdown of talks aimed at launching a "millennium round" of negotiations to rewrite ...