The new geopolitics of trade and the collapse of the mini-ministerial at the WTO: was it "only" about the Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM)? By Mariarosaria Iorio, International Political Analyst, Head of the IGTN Geneva Office
I. The geo-political context The collapse of the negotiations of the WTO mini-ministerial (21-31 July 2008) reflects the new geopolitics of the world economy. The emerging economies with a large portion of their population employed in agriculture have been at the heart of the negotiating processes, and have put at the forefront another way of...