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ACTA and the Threat to Credible Global Governance (Aaron Shaw)

By Robin Gross

"I?ve recently heard through a grapevine that ACTA negotiants have reportedly signed non-disclosure agreements as a condition of their participation in this week?s secret closed-door meeting in Geneva. This is an amazing and frightening step backwards in the history of global governance. It also epitomizes the ACTA negotiants? dismissive attitude towards the importance of credible, transparent trade policy-making in the current global environment. Anyone who would seek to radically transform the world?s trade in intangible assets without the participation of most of the world?s governments has learned little from the Asian Financial Crisis, the Iraq War, or the ongoing real estate and credit catastrophe....

Full post as published by IP Justice on June 04, 2008 (boomark / email).