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The mission of the journal is to publish articles which deepen understanding of issues facing the international trading system through critical analysis and constructive debate. The Journal has an independent editorial policy and board.

The World Trade Review publishes three issues per year. It invites 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 assures that articles meet high standards in terms of theoretical and methodological rigour.

Editor: Richard Blackhurst

Editorial Board:

James Crawford, University of Cambridge
Joseph Francois, Erasmus University
Judith Goldstein, Stanford University
Henrik Horn, Stockholm University
Patrick Low (ex officio) World Trade Organization
Petros Mavroidis, University of Neuchatel
André Sapir, Free University of Brussels
Joseph Weiler, New York University
L. Alan Winters, University of Sussex

Book Review Editor:

Joseph Weiler, New York University

Associate Book Review Editor:

Kevin Klingbeil, New York University School of law

Articles in the November 2004 issue of the journal include:

• When comparative advantage is not enough: business costs in small remote economies
  Alan Winters and Pedro  M. G. Martins
    
• The WTO and the poorest countries: the stark reality
  A Aditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian
    
• The system of gas dual pricing in Russia: compatibility with WTO rules
  Sergey Ripinsky
    
• Wilful ignorance: the struggle to convince the free trade skeptics
  Anne O. Krueger
   
• Common values for the Development Round
  Joseph E. Stiglitz and Andrew H. Charlton
   
• Chile — price band system and safeguard measures relating to certain agricultural products
  Kyle Bagwell and Alan O. Sykes

Book review:

• Doha and Beyond: The Future of the Multilateral Trading System, edited by Mike Moore
  Donald MacLaren