Introduction: trade politics: environments, agendas and processes / Brian Hocking and Steven McGuire -- Environments and Issues -- From Seattle and Doha to Cancun: the trade agenda in the new millennium / Bruce E. Moon -- The politics of transatlantic trade relations / John Peterson -- Trade politics in East Asia / John Ravenhill -- NAFTA: a decade on / Andrew F. Cooper -- The political economy of the Free Trade Area of the Americas / Paulo S. Wrobel -- Trade and Africa: transforming fringe into franchise / Timothy W. Shaw and Janis Van Der Westhuizen --The Politics of the World Trade Organization -- The WTO in perspective / Razeen Sally -- Understanding the WTO dispute settlement process / Donna Lee -- Developing countries and the WTO / Amrita Narlikar -- The WTO and civil society / Jan Aart Scholte -- The Trade Agenda -- Agricultural trade policy / David N. Balaam -- Trading ideas: the politics of intellectual property / Ann Capling -- Linking competition policy and trade / Chad Damro -- Investment issues in the WTO / Bijit Bora -- Trade and the environment / Duncan Brack -- Trade and human rights: the issue of minimum labour standards / Gijsbert Van Liemt -- Trading food: the politics of genetically modified organisms / Robert Falkner -- Actors and Processes -- Changing the terms of trade policy and diplomacy / Brian Hocking -- Firms and governments in international trade / Steven McGuire -- The European Union as a trade policy actor / Michael Smith -- Continuity and change in US trade policy, 1993-2003 / Geoffrey Allen Pigman.