John J. Kirton, Professor, University of Toronto, Canada

• Contents: Introduction; Part I Foundations and Historical Overviews: Power versus plenty as objectives of foreign policy in the 17th and 18th centuries, Jacob Viner; An economic theory of protectionism, tariff bargaining and the formation of customs unions, Harry G. Johnson. Part II Systemic Causes of International Trade Policy and Regimes: Protectionism and world politics, Susan Strange; The political economy of international trade, Helen V. Milner; Power politics and international trade, Joanne Gowa and Edward D. Mansfield; The globalization of liberalization: policy diffusion in the international political economy, Beth A. Simmons and Zachary Elkins. Part III Societal and State Causes of International Trade Policy and Regimes: The political economy of international trade: enduring puzzles and an agenda for inquiry, James E. Alt, Jeffry Frieden, Michael J. Gilligan, Dani Rodrik and Ronald Rogowski; Between free trade and protectionism, Helen V. Milner and David B. Yoffie; Why democracies co-operate more: electoral control and international trade agreements, Edward D. Mansfield Helen V. Milner and B. Peter Rosendorff. Part IV Consequences of Trade: Growth, Equity, Environment, Labour and Human Rights: Does trade cause growth?, Jeffrey A. Frankel and David Romer; The politics of participation: decision-making processes and developing countries in the World Trade Organization, Amrita Narlikar; Political cleavages and changing exposure to trade, Ronald Rogowski; The fair trade-free trade debate: trade, labor and the environment, Robert Howse and Michael Trebilcock. Part V Global Trade Institutions: The GATT in historical perspective, Douglas A. Irwin; The GATT and the regulation of trade barriers: regime dynamics and functions, Jock A. Finlayson and Mark W. Zacher; The World Trade Organization: a new stage in international trade and development, Raymond Vernon; The World Trade Organization: institution-building in the multilateral trade system, Gilgert R. Winham. Part VI Regionalism and Multilateralism: NAFTA and the legalization of world politics: a case study, Frederick M. Abbott; International law and domestic institutions: reconciling North American 'unfair' trade laws, Judith Goldstein; Multilateralising regionalism: spaghetti bowls as building blocs on the path to global free trade, Richard E. Baldwin; Name index.