ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the 1999 Seattle and the 2001 Doha, Qatar, WTO ministerial meetings, as well as the 2003 Cancún Ministerial and the 2004 summer negotiations. Why did the Seattle meeting fail and the Doha session succeed in launching a new round of WTO-based global trade negotiations? Why did the Cancún Ministerial fail and the summer 2004 negotiations succeed in reaching a preliminary Doha Round agreement? Although the analysis incorporates previous scholarly work, it mainly presents new principal arguments and key details. Through the integration of primary materials and extensive interviews with trade ministers, ambassadors, and WTO personnel, it aims to contribute to the evolving analysis and understanding of the WTO, international bargaining, and multilateral institutions.
