Part I Foundations and Historical Overviews -- Power versus plenty as objectives of foreign policy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- An economic theory of protectionism, tariff bargaining and the formation of customs unions -- Part II Systemic Causes of International Trade Policy and Regimes -- Protectionism and world politics -- The political economy of international trade -- Power politics and international trade -- The globalization of liberalization: policy diffusion in the international political economy -- Part III Societal and State Causes of International Trade Policy and Regimes -- The political economy of international trade: enduring puzzles and an agenda for inquiry -- Between free trade and protectionism: strategic trade policy and a theory of corporate trade demands -- Why democracies co-operate more: electoral control and international trade agreements -- Part IV Consequences of Trade: Growth, Equity, Environment, Labour and Human Rights -- Does trade cause growth? -- The politics of participation: decision-making processes and developing countries in the World Trade Organization -- Political cleavages and changing exposure to trade -- The fair trade-free trade debate: trade, labor and the environment -- Part V Global Trade Institutions -- The GATT in historical perspective -- The GATT and the regulation of trade barriers: regime dynamics and functions -- The World Trade Organization: a new stage in international trade and development -- The World Trade Organization: institution-building in the multilateral trade system -- Part VI Regionalism and Multilateralism -- NAFTA and the legalization of world politics: a case study -- International law and domestic institutions: reconciling North American "unfair" trade laws -- Multilateralising regionalism: spaghetti bowls as building blocs on the path to global free trade.