- Briefing Note Nº 1:   The World Trade Organization in the international economic order
                                                  (only the Spanish version available)
  Synopsis:  Everybody hears or reads about the World Trade Organisation (WTO). But it doesn't seem that this wide and daily presence of the WTO in the  media comes along with a real understanding of its nature and its role in the framework of the present global economic order, where the capitalism is the hegemonic system. This text, written by Ramon Torrent, director of the Observatory of Globalisation and Professor of Political Economy at the University of Barcelona, aims to contribute to clarify these issues by offering an introductory and very general overview that may, without going deeply into details (which are, nevertheless, very important by themselves),  highlight the role of the WTO in the present international economic "architecture".


   - Briefing Note Nº 2:   The Proposals of the Zedillo Panel for Reforming Global Economic Governance

  Synopsis:  Paper by John Williamson, Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Economics (Washington), that he presented at the International Workshop on "The regulatory framework of Globalisation", organised by the Observatory of Globalisation of the University of Barcelona the 5th and 6th October  2001. The author served as Project Director for the Zedillo Panel, but views expressed in this paper do not necessarily reflect those of members of the Panel. They do not reflect either the views of the Observatory of Globalisation of the University of Barcelona or the ones of the European Commission (who financed the organisation of the Workshop).