Mike Moore's reflection on his time as Director-General of the World Trade Organization is an important addition to the great globalization debate. Moore explains how a boy who left school at fifteen to work in a slaughterhouse came to head an organization charged with bringing rules and order to the world's trading system. He explains the thinking behind his reforms which helped the WTO move on from the debacle of Seattle to the successful Doha meeting and offers a robust and passionate defense of the principles of free trade. Mike Moore, a former Prime Minister of New Zealand, has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in politics. As Minister of Overseas Trade and Marketing, he led trade missions to Australia, Japan, China, India, Pakistan and Turkey. Subsequently he has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and, until August, 2002, as Director General of the World Trade Organization. Moore has long been an active participant in international discussions on trade liberalization and has received numerous awards, including the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal and New Zealand's highest honor, the Order of New Zealand. He lives in Geneva.
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"Worth reading...compelling..." Weekly Standard
"Mike Moore makes a strong case for the benefits of free trade and open markets. But he warns that global governance needs to be rethought to cope with the challenges of globalization. A wide ranging and thought-provoking book." George Soros, author of George Soros on Globalization
"What shines through all this is Moore's unshakable faith in globalization and his contagious confidence in the combined ability of markets and democracies to make the world a better place for the vast majority of its inhabitants." Foreign Affairs
"I now understand better why I like Mike Moore so much. Mike, a man essentially educated by the brute force of real-life challenges, has produced in this book an honest account of his very fine tenure as WTO Director-General. Those curious about either the evolution of the multilateral trading system, or interesting leaders, will find this book very enjoyable." Ernesto Zedillo, Former President of Mexico
"...it seems like a good start on the path toward a world where goods, services, and people move freely." Weekly Standard
"Reading Moore's book is not unlike spending half an hour with the man himself. It amounts to a thorough battering by fact, anecdote, protest, and personal conviction.... However, the real message is topical: the value and fragility of multilateralism.... Yet no reader could conclude anything other than that the WTO must succeed. For the weak and the powerful alike, the multilateral system it represents is too precious and too fragile to neglect or abuse." Financial Times
"He's both self-congratulatory and self-deprecating, successfully weaving in humor to spice up what might otherwise be tedious accounts of office politics.... At a time when global institutions such as these seem both vitally important and uniquely threatened, Mr. Moore advocates greater education about their decisions and their interaction with civil society. A World Without Walls, especially when it's focused on the specifics of how the W.T.O. should operate--and how it actually does operate--is an admirable beginning." New York Observer
"Mike Moore is that rare politician: a doer who is also a thinker. He pulled off Doha, putting the bumbling failure of Seattle behind us. In this fascinating book, he demonstrates that he can also speak to intellectuals, placing trade liberalization, indeed globalization, into an ambitious but realistic framework that can serve as an effective antidote to the anti-globalizers. And he does it elegantly and articulately. New Zealand has two great voices: Kiri Te Kanawa and Mike Moore." Jagdish Bhagwati, author of Free Trade Today
"Mike Moore makes a strong case for the benefits of free trade and open markets. But he warns that global governance needs to be rethought to cope with the challenges of globalization. A wide ranging and thought-provoking book." George Soros, author of George Soros on Globalization
"What shines through all this is Moore's unshakable faith in globalization and his contagious confidence in the combined ability of markets and democracies to make the world a better place for the vast majority of its inhabitants." Foreign Affairs
"I now understand better why I like Mike Moore so much. Mike, a man essentially educated by the brute force of real-life challenges, has produced in this book an honest account of his very fine tenure as WTO Director-General. Those curious about either the evolution of the multilateral trading system, or interesting leaders, will find this book very enjoyable." Ernesto Zedillo, Former President of Mexico
"...it seems like a good start on the path toward a world where goods, services, and people move freely." Weekly Standard
"Reading Moore's book is not unlike spending half an hour with the man himself. It amounts to a thorough battering by fact, anecdote, protest, and personal conviction.... However, the real message is topical: the value and fragility of multilateralism.... Yet no reader could conclude anything other than that the WTO must succeed. For the weak and the powerful alike, the multilateral system it represents is too precious and too fragile to neglect or abuse." Financial Times
"He's both self-congratulatory and self-deprecating, successfully weaving in humor to spice up what might otherwise be tedious accounts of office politics.... At a time when global institutions such as these seem both vitally important and uniquely threatened, Mr. Moore advocates greater education about their decisions and their interaction with civil society. A World Without Walls, especially when it's focused on the specifics of how the W.T.O. should operate--and how it actually does operate--is an admirable beginning." New York Observer
"Mike Moore is that rare politician: a doer who is also a thinker. He pulled off Doha, putting the bumbling failure of Seattle behind us. In this fascinating book, he demonstrates that he can also speak to intellectuals, placing trade liberalization, indeed globalization, into an ambitious but realistic framework that can serve as an effective antidote to the anti-globalizers. And he does it elegantly and articulately. New Zealand has two great voices: Kiri Te Kanawa and Mike Moore." Jagdish Bhagwati, author of Free Trade Today
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Mike Moore's reflection on his time as Director-General of the World Trade Organization is an important addition to the great globalization debate. Moore explains how a boy, who left school at fifteen to work in a slaughterhouse, came to head an organization charged with bringing rules and order to the world's trading system. He explains the thinking behind his reforms which helped the WTO move on from the debacle of Seattle to the successful Doha meeting and offers a robust and passionate defence of the principles of free trade.
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