Outside voices: Proposing a WTO-centric collective action answer to U.S. unilateralism

A new deep dive into a potential response to the “exercise of coercive force” by a World Trade Organization member (read: the U.S. and its tariffs) argues for “collective action” through the formation of a collection of economies, to “facilitate a collective response within the WTO.” The analysts, London School of Economics professor Mona Paulsen and Dan Ciuriak, a senior fellow at Canada’s Centre for International Governance Innovation, call this “new, informal group” a “Caucus” (with a capital C). Paulsen...