Published in the Ottawa Citizen’s “Aid and Development” blog, May 23, 2013 The selection of Roberto Azevedo, Brazil’s Ambassador to the WTO and chief negotiator in the Doha Round, as the new WTO director-general is being hailed as recognition of the importance of the emerging economies in the world economy. Azevedo is viewed a champion of the global south.… Read More
Author Archives: Debra Steger
Educational Exchanges and the Promotion of Human Rights
On Monday of this week, in a small graduate seminar at American University Washington College of Law (in Washington, DC), a beautiful, humble, passionate heroine explained the history of the fight for women’s rights in her country, Yemen, and shared her story of fighting against early marriage of young girls by bringing divorce applications in the courts… Read More
Tags: Canada, child marriage, Debra Steger, educational exchange, human rights, Shada Nasser, women, women's rights, Yemen
WTO Resilient but Changed after Ministerial
This essay is excerpted from a Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) Commentary, published online February 7, 2012. The recent ministerial meeting, held in Geneva in December, demonstrated that the World Trade Organization (WTO) is resilient but changed as an organization. In fact, the meeting surprised many hardened observers by pr… Read More
Tags: Debra Steger, global political economy, World Trade Organization
Harper and Obama at APEC: A New Focus on Asia or a Closer Canada-U.S. Relationship?
Was the Prime Minister’s statement at the APEC Summit of Canada’s interest in joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations a sign of a new export strategy focused on Asia or a move away from our close trading relationship with the United States in response to the delay of the regulatory approval of the Keystone pipeline? Does this signal a majo… Read More
Tags: APEC, Canada, Canada-US relations, Canadian foreign policy, China, international political economy, international trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership, United States
First CETA, then India and China: Whither the WTO?
As Canada and the European Union held the ninth round of negotiations on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) in Ottawa last week, and moved closer to a conclusion in 2012, what will be the impact on the World Trade Organization (WTO) of this new trend in preferential trade agreements (PTAs) between major developed partners? The Doha Round… Read More
Tags: CETA, China, Debra Steger, European Union, free trade, India, international political economy, international trade, WTO
