With contributions from some of the leading experts in international trade, law, and economics, Joel P. Trachtman and Chantal Thomas have compiled a comprehensive volume that looks at the positioning of developing countries within the WTO system. These chapters address some of the most pressing issues facing these countries, while reflecting on Robert E. Hudec's groundbreaking book, Developing Countries in the GATT Legal System. In his landmark contribution, Hudec argued against preferential and non-reciprocal treatment for developing countries. He did so on the basis of a combination of economic, political and legal insights that persuasively demonstrated that non-reciprocal treatment would not benefit developing countries. It is a testament to Hudec's legacy that his analysis is still the object of scholarly discussion more than 20 years later.
The first part of this book evaluates the general situation of developing countries within the WTO. The second part examines market access and competition law within these countries. Lastly, it discusses the special arrangements these countries have with international financial institutions, the developing country's capacity to litigate, and an analysis of the country's level of participation in WTO dispute settlements.

Les 'Vies privees', ecrits scandaleux destines a detruire l'image officielle de personnes distinguees, ou, plus rarement, ecrits louangeurs pour sauver une reputation, offrent des perspectives nouvelles sur l'evolution des rapports entre domaines publics et prives. Ces textes rares ou mal connus sont un temoignage capital sur l'histoire de l'opinion publique dans la France pre- et post-revolutionnaire et sur la constitution du genre de la biographie. Apres des recherches minutieuses menees dans des bibliotheques en France et a l'etranger, les editeurs proposent la premiere vue d'ensemble de ces 'Vies'. Un 'Dictionnaire' rassemble les notices, classees par ordre alphabetique des noms des personnages evoques, presentant l'analyse de chacune des 'Vies' recensees - des figures majeures, de la fin de l'Ancien regime et de la Restauration, rois et reines, membres de la famille de Napoleon, mais aussi des ministres, des prelats, et des brigands. Il est precede par un essai, intitule Vie privee et politique, qui etudie le phenomene editorial, litteraire et ideologique de ces textes. Ces 'Vies', souvent fantaisistes et caricaturales, ouvrent des perspectives nouvelles sur la manipulation de l'opinion par le recit au dix-huitieme siecle: le 'storytelling' des medias de nos jours n'est guere nouveau.

It was once the job of Madame Agathe-Sidonie Laborde to read books aloud to Marie-Antoinette. Now exiled in Vienna, she looks back twenty-one years to the legendary opulence of Versailles and meticulously reconstructs July 14, 15, and 16 of 1789. When Agathe-Sidonie is summoned to the Queen's side on the morning of the 14th, Versailles is a miniature universe, sparkling with every outward appearance of happiness and power, peopled with nobles of minutely calibrated rank, and run according to a hundred-year-old ritual called the Perfect Day. But with the shocking news that someone has woken the King in the night, order begins to disintegrate and word of the fall of the Bastille seeps into court. Soon Versailles's beauty is nothing more than a shell encasing rising panic and chaos. Agathe-Sidonie watches as the Queen's attempts to flee are aborted; her most intimate friend betrays her; and the King, appearing to sleepwalk through this crisis, never alters his routine of visiting the Apollo Salon several times a day to consult a giant crystal thermometer. From the tiniest garret to the Hall of Mirrors, where Marie-Antoinette stands alone and terrified in the dark, Chantal Thomas shows us a world on the edge of oblivion and an intimate portrait of the woman who, like "fire in motion," was its center.