Robert
Wolfe is
Professor in the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University
in Kingston, Canada. A political scientist, from 1976 to 1995
he was a foreign service officer with the Canadian Department
of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, serving abroad in
Dhaka, Bangladesh (1977-79) and in the Canadian Delegation to
the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in
Paris (1981-85). Among other Ottawa assignments, he was Executive
Assistant to Sylvia Ostry (1986-88), at that time the Ambassador
for Multilateral Trade Negotiations and Prime Minister's Personal
Representative, Economic Summit. His current research centres
on institutional design and negotiations in the World Trade Organization.
Publications
on the process of international economic negotiation:
Wolfe, Robert. 2011. "Did the Protectionist Dog Bark? Transparency, Accountability, and the WTO During the Global Financial Crisis." Entwined, Policy Report 01.
Collins-Williams, Terry and Robert Wolfe. November 2010. "Transparency as a Trade Policy Tool: The WTO's Cloudy Windows." World Trade Review, 9(4): 551-81.
Halle, Mark and Robert Wolfe. September 2010. "A New Approach to Transparency and Accountability in the WTO." Stockholm, Issue Brief 06.
Wolfe, Robert. May 2010. "Endogenous Learning and Consensual Understanding in Multilateral negotiations: Arguing and Bargaining in the WTO," Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy and Competitiveness Research Network CATRPN Working Paper.
Wolfe, Robert. February 2010. "Sprinting
During a Marathon: Why the WTO Ministerial Failed in July 2008," Journal of World Trade, 44(1):
81-126.
Wolfe, Robert. "Trade Policy Is (Still)
Foreign Policy, but It's Not Sexy." As Others See Us: Canada among Nations 2010.
Edited by Paul Heinbecker and Fen
Osler Hampson. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press,
2010.
Wolfe, Robert. December 2009. "The WTO Single Undertaking as Negotiating Technique and Constitutive Metaphor." Journal of International Economic Law, 12(4): 835-58.
Wolfe, Robert. October 2009. "The Special Safeguard Fiasco in the WTO: The Perils of Inadequate Analysis and Negotiation." World Trade Review 8(4): 517-44.
Wolfe,
Robert. April 2009. Sprinting
during a Marathon: Why the WTO ministerial failed in
July 2008. Group d'Économie Mondiale Working
paper.
Wolfe,
Robert. February 2009. The
special safeguard fiasco in the WTO: The perils of inadequate
analysis and negotiation. Group d'Économie
Mondiale Working paper.
Wolfe, Robert.
2008. From Reconstructing Europe to Constructing Globalization:
The OECD in Historical Perspective. In The OECD and Transnational
Governance, edited by Mahon, Rian and Stephen McBride. Vancouver:
University of British Columbia Press, p. 26-42.
Wolfe, Robert.
2008. Canada's Adventures in Clubland: Trade Clubs and Political
Influence. In Canada among Nations 2007: Room for Manoeuvre,
edited by Jean Daudelin and Daniel Schwanen. Montreal and Kingston:
McGill-Queen's University Press, p. 181-97. http://post.queensu.ca/~wolfer/Papers/Clubs.pdf
Wolfe, Robert.
2007. Still Foggy after All These Years: Reform Proposals for the
WTO. In Trends in World Trade Policy: Essays in Honor of Sylvia
Ostry. Edited by Alan S. Alexandroff and Raj Bhala. Durham.
NC: Carolina Academic Press.
Wolfe, Robert.
Working paper No. 30, September 2007. Can the trading system be
governed? Institutional implications of the WTO's suspended animation.
Centre for International Governance Innovation. http://www.cigionline.org/cigi/Publications/workingp/canthetr
Wolfe, Robert.
Working paper, July 2007. Harvesting Public Policy? Private Influence
on Agricultural Trade Policy in Canada. Canadian Agricultural Trade
Policy Research Network: CATPRN. http://www.uoguelph.ca/%7ecatprn/PDF/Working_Paper_2007-4r.pdf
Wolfe, Robert.
2007. Transparency and Public Participation in the Canadian Trade
Policy Process. In Process Matters: Sustainable Development
and Domestic Trade Transparency, edited by Mark Halle and
Robert Wolfe. Winnipeg: International Institute for Sustainable
Development. http://www.iisd.org/pdf/2007/process_matters.pdf
Wolfe, Robert.
May 2006. New Groups in the WTO Agricultural Trade Negotiations:
Power, Learning and Institutional Design. Canadian Agricultural
Trade Policy Research Network: CATPRN Commissioned Paper CP 2006-2.
Wolfe,
Robert and Jesse Helmer. April 2006. Where Is Canada in Global
Farm Talks? Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network:
Trade Policy Brief 2006-1.
Wolfe,
Robert. 2005. Decision-making and transparency in the "medieval" WTO:
does the Sutherland Report have the right prescription? Journal
of International Economic Law 8:3, 631-45.
Wolfe, Robert.
August 2004. Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones: Where the
WTO is Going After Seattle, Doha and Cancun. Review of International
Political Economy: 574-596.
Wolfe, Robert.
2004. Informal Political Engagement in the WTO: Are Mini-Ministerials
a Good Idea? In Trade Policy Research, edited by Ciuriak,
Dan and John M. Curtis. Ottawa: International Trade Canada.
Wolfe,
Robert. 1999. Regulatory Diplomacy: Why rhythm beats harmony in
the trade regime. In Room to Manoeuvre? Globalization and Policy
Convergence , edited by Thomas J. Courchene. Kingston: John
Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy.
Contact
Information:
Professor
School of Policy Studies
Queen's University
Kingston, Ont
K7L 3N6
Phone: (613) 533-6689
Email: robert.wolfe@queensu.ca
Web: http://www.queensu.ca/sps/people/faculty/wolfer/index.php
