"Soo Yeon Kim has made a real contribution to the study of international institutions and their centrality in determining global economic outcomes. Power and the Governance of Global Trade is particularly insightful in mapping how power has shaped the rules governing global trade and showing that those rules created uneven distributional effects that persist to this day."—Brian Pollins, The Ohio State University "Soo Yeon Kim's book provides a refreshingly new look at the most important multilateral organization in the international economy, the World Trade Organization. Her research focuses on the distributional outcomes of the GATT/WTO and the role of power in shaping the rules of the institution. In it she addresses many of the criticisms raised by the anti-globalization movement in a systematic and rigorous fashion. She shows that the developing countries never received the same benefits from the GATT/WTO that the developed ones did largely because of the design of the GATT/WTO. Power relations shaped that design and changing power relations today may portend new challenges to the institution. This book raises critically important issues for the world political economy and the future of the WTO."—Helen V. Milner, Director, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, and B. C. Forbes Professor of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University "In Power and the Governance of Global Trade, Soo Yeon Kim provides a thoughtful and extremely interesting account of the origins, evolution, and distributive consequences of the multilateral trade regime. Kim convincingly argues that power politics has played a key role in shaping the GATT/WTO system and her careful and sophisticated empirical analysis sheds new light on the linkages between power relations and the governance of global trade."—Edward D. Mansfield, Hum Rosen Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania