If the United Nations system is to remain relevant, or even survive, thinking re-imagine and redesign contemporary global governance will come from Third UN. This article focuses on ecology of supportive non-state actors – intellectuals, scholars, consultants, think tanks, NGOs, for-profit private sector, media that interacts with intergovernmental machinery First UN international civil servant...

This paper indicates that the consequences of regional trade agreements for the world trade system may be deceiving—an arrangement’s apparent virtue may constitute the source of its drawback. In a model where governments have political, as well as economic, motivations, I show that a free trade area induces its members to reduce protection against the non-members, and to do so sufficiently deep...

The Doha Round, notwithstanding some recent injection of impetus, has a desultory nowit’s-on-now-it’s-off quality to it. To most this lacklustreness is a frustration. If only it could be brought to conclusion, the world would be so much better off, especially if one is to believe the estimates of the gains from trade liberalization that the Round would deliver (an increase in global welfare of ...