| Chapter 1: | Introduction |
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Figure 1. Regimes as intermediate factors (RIF).
An online conversation between participants from various parts of the world and Pascal Lamy, the Director General of the World Trade Organization, serves to demonstrate the complex perceptions of power dynamics involving international regimes.1 During the conversation, a participant asked Lamy the following question:
For small and poor countries to have a voice in the WTO is great, for sure, but that voice is always silenced by the US. How can developing and poor countries negotiate with the US and EU, considering that they have no negotiating power? No edge, no advantage, and absolutely no “fair” treatment.
Lamy responded,