PRESS RELEASE
PRESS/284
9 April 2002
(02-1892)
LAUNCH OF NEW JOURNAL
Geneva, April 9, 2002 – WTO Director-General Mike Moore announced today the launch of
a new scholarly journal, the World Trade Review, as a joint initiative between the WTO and
Cambridge University Press (CUP).
"The mission of this Journal is to publish peer-reviewed articles which contribute to public
discussion and debate about the multilateral trading system", said Mr Moore.  "Though it is an
initiative of the WTO Secretariat, in close collaboration with CUP, the Journal has an independenteditorial policy and board.  The aim of the Journal is to deepen understanding of issues facing the
international trading system through critical analysis and constructive debate".
The World Trade Review, with three issues per year, will invite articles from a wide range of
specialists world-wide which address trade issues from economic, legal, political and inter-disciplinary perspectives.  A rigorous peer review process will assure that articles meet high standards
in terms of theoretical and methodological rigour.
Articles in the first issue of the Journal include:
• The World Trade Organization's Legitimacy Crisis, by Dan Esty
• Strengthening the Global Architecture for Development: the Post Doha Agenda, by Bernard
Hoekman
• Why are Safeguards Under the WTO so Unpopular? by Chad P. Brown
• Cross-Agreement Complaints Before the Appellate Body: a case-study of the EC-Asbestos
Dispute, by Joost Paulwelyn
• Long Run Trends in World Trade and Income, by Douglas A Irwin.
• Perceptions About the WTO Trade Institutions, by John H. Jackson
For more information on the World Trade Review please contact Mr. Jean-Guy Carrier at the
WTO, phone number +41 22 739 5439.  See also the WTO website:  http://www.wto.org and the CUPwebsite: http://www.cambridge.org.
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