Okonjo-Iweala takes a victory lap for the WTO

Who could blame World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for her linking a “a beautiful dawn” in a Lake Geneva morning with the “remarkable thing” that happened at the recently concluded MC12? “The WTO is back,” she proclaims in a victory lap essay for Project Syndicate, a forum for opinion pieces on global issues. The understandings, following a contentious buildup and downplaying of expectations, reached “a scale and scope that the WTO has not achieved since the mid-1990s,” she writes,...