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Preeg has written a comprehensive account of the international negotiations, 1986-94, which led to history's broadest trade agreement and to the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) as a replacement for the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The title is somewhat misleading since most of the account is about the recent past and not the future, and since the focus is on the activities of governmental negotiators rather than private business traders. Nevertheless, the (mainly chronological) organization is elegant and the exposition clear. The author, who served as a US government negotiator and wrote similar accounts of earlier negotiations, is eminently qualified as an authority on the subject. There is no bibliography as such, but there are extensive bibliographic endnotes and very useful appendixes, which provide a chronology of events and synopses of official documents. Broader, less technical, and more reflective than The Uruguay Road: An Assessment, by Jeffrey J. Schott with Johanna W. Burrman (CH, Sep'95). Upper-division undergraduates; graduate students; faculty; and governmental professionals. J. W. Nordyke New Mexico State University
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