The WTO’s grand bargain systematically favored the Global North.

Evidence

The WTO’s “grand bargain” by which the Global South conceded to trade disciplines in IP and services in exchange for reciprocity on agriculture and textiles ended up favoring the Global North disproportionately. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 199

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Preferential trade deals for the Global South replaced universal free trade — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 714; WTO design deliberately scaled European constitutionalism into a global trade constitution — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 836; Neoliberal globalization crashed white working-class fortunes in the Global North — Wendy Brown, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise…, 324 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• WTO design deliberately scaled European constitutionalism into a global trade constitution #expands (0.80) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 836
• Preferential trade deals for the Global South replaced universal free trade #qualifies (0.75) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 714