What is the role of the World Trade Organization (WTO)? The WTO facilitates global trade / Anne Effland ... [et al.] ; The WTO advances globalization and harms nations' autonomy / Lori Wallach and Patrick Woodall ; The WTO can help solve the global economic crisis / Pascal Lamy ; The WTO helped cause the global economic crisis / Public Citizen ; The WTO can promote human rights / Susan Ariel Aaronson and Jamie M. Zimmerman ; WTO actions can ignore human rights / Amnesty International ; The WTO can establish food safety standards / Harold Meyerson ; The WTO is more interested in free trade than food safety / Gail Combs

Is the World Trade Organization essential to U.S. interests? The WTO is essential to U.S. economic interests / Peter F. Allgeier ; The WTO works against U.S. economic interests / Ernest F. Hollings ; The success of the Doha Development Round is essential to U.S. economic interests / Daniel Markheim ; The Doha Development negotiations are a failure / Robert Weissman ; The WTO hurts the U.S. manufacturing industry / Lori Wallach ; The U.S. manufacturing industry is doing well / Daniel Ikenson

How can the World Trade Organization improve? The WTO can help the environment / Margaret Lay ; The WTO hurts the environment / Deborah James ; The WTO must defend biotechnological intellectual property rights / Ronald Bailey ; The WTO's biotechnology patent rules threaten millions of lives / Amitabh Pal ; The WTO should force the EU to end its moratorium on genetically modified food / Gregory Conko ; The WTO should uphold the EU moratorium on genetically modified food / David Moberg ; The WTO can play an important role in establishing global food security / Sandra Polaski ; Unfair agricultural policies have led to global food insecurity / Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar

How should the United States relate to the WTO? The United States must comply with WTO rulings against it / Joseph Weiler ; The United States should not allow the WTO to infringe on its national sovereignty / Phyllis Schlafly ; The United States should obey WTO trade settlement decisions / Mark W. Hendrickson ; The WTO trade settlement system is broken / Barry Solarz.