The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse at the WTO The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse at the WTO Alan Wm. [...] Death? The Future of Trade”.1 With the use of foresight, one can see the four horsemen of the apocalypse from the WTO’s headquarters building on the shores of Lake Geneva. [...] 6 A foremost example of the relationship between trade and peace is the one presented to us by the EU and the UK in their latest Brexit understanding the week before last – a compromise to keep the Good Friday Agreement in place and stop the sectarian bloodshed in Northern Ireland by avo. [...] He called this the Thucydides Trap, after the Greek historian who traced the inevitability of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta.20 The best example of a peaceful transition was the emergence of the United States on the world stage during the 20th century when the established world power was Great Britain. [...] The work of the Trade for Peace (T4P) Programme, in cooperation with the peace community, for conflict-affected countries is the area of the WTO that is likely to have the clearest effect on diminishing wars.
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