Trade Links

James Bacchus is Distinguished University Professor of Global Affairs and Director of the Center for Global Economic and Environmental Opportunity at the University of Central Florida. While a member of the Congress of the United States, he helped create the World Trade Organization. He was a founding judge and the chief judge for the WTO during its first decade.

• Introduction: fraying links; 1. Links to the global economy; 2. Links to the pandemic; 3. Links to the pre-pandemic world; 4. Links to the trade inheritance; 5. Links to the new commercial economy; 6. Links to climate change; 7. Links to sustainable development; 8. Links to ecology and a circular economy; 9. Links to cooperation, equity, and inclusion; Conclusion: lasting links.

'This book spells out in fascinating detail the multitude of links that are increasingly connecting the global population and brilliantly explains why sustainable development is a critical issue for the 21st century. Jim Bacchus describes how the multilateral trade rules can and must be upgraded and implemented to avoid disaster and to secure the benefits that could flow to all mankind, illustrating in captivating detail why today and in the future, self-interest constitutes shared interest. This is a truly an absorbing and persuasive analysis that is hard to put down.' Ambassador Carla Hills, former United States Trade Representative