International Trade Law – Greg Shaffer

In Episode #80, we are joined by Gregory Schaffer, author of Emerging Powers and the World Trading System. We discuss:

• Greg's career path, from an early interest in history and foreign affairs to being a regular visitor at the WTO in Geneva.
• How the development of international trade law capacities helped make Brazil, China, and India supporters of the international trade system established at the behest of the United States.
• Was China's accession to the WTO cause or effect?
• What consitutes international trade law capacity? What role do lawyers play?
• The U.S.'s paradoxical shift from shaper of the international trade system to revisionist power that undermines said system.
• Emerging powers in the international trade law sphere.
• The economic Cold War between China and the United States.
• Listening, and watching recommendations from:
  • Greg
    • Country Driving and Oracle Bones, by Peter Hessler
  •  Jonathan
    • Emerging Powers and the World Trading System: The Past and Future of International Economic Law, by Gregory Shaffer 
    • "'Reversing Gears': China Increasingly Rejects English, and the World," The New York Times, by Li Yuan
  • Fred
    • "How the Bobos Broke America," The Atlantic, by David Brooks
    • River Town, by Peter Hessler

We’ll see you next week for another exciting and informative episode when we sit down with David Sargsyan to learn more about Armenia.