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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- 1 World Trade Organisation: Its Birth and Background -- 1 International Economic Relations Before Second World War -- 2 International Economic Relations After Second World War -- 3 Havana Charter for International Trade Organisation (ITO) -- 4 GATT: A Historical Accident -- 5 GATT: An Overview -- 6 GATT: The Basic Purposes -- 7 GATT Tariff Negotiations -- 8 From Geneva to Tokyo -- 9 The Uruguay Round Negotiations -- 10 The Uruguay Round-Punta-Del-Este and Beyond -- 11 Negotiations of Key Elements-A Brief Review -- 12 From Uruguay to Doha and Beyond -- 13 The Demise of the 2008 Geneva Ministerial Conference -- 14 Ninth Ministerial Conference and Bali Package and Revival of Doha-2013 to 2014 -- 2 World Trade Organisation (WTO): The Structural Dimensions -- 1 General -- 2 The Objectives of WTO -- 3 Functions of WTO -- 4 Structure of WTO -- 5 Decision-Making -- 6 Amendments to Agreements -- 7 Membership, Accession and Withdrawal -- 8 Miscellaneous Provisions -- 9 WTO and Global Economic Policymaking -- 10 WTO and Trade Policy Review -- 3 WTO Dispute Settlement System Mechanisms -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Dispute Settlement in GATT 1947 -- 3 Article XXIII and the Role of Panels -- 4 Dispute Settlement in GATT 1947 and Its Refinements -- 5 WTO, GATT 1994 and The Dispute Settlement Understanding -- 6 DSU and Its Applicability -- 7 Dispute Settlement Mechanisms -- 8 Good Offices, Conciliation and Mediation -- 9 The Establishment of Panels -- 10 Terms of Reference of Panels -- 11 Composition of Panels -- 12 Functions, Procedures and Responsibility of Panels -- 13 Adoption of Panel Reports -- 14 Appellate Review and Standing Appellate Body -- 15 Surveillance of Implementation of Recommendations and Rulings -- 16 Compensation and The Suspension of Concessions.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements and Dedications -- About This Book -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 World in Peril -- Introduction -- Once upon a Time -- The Beginning -- Our Greatest challenge-The Human Mind -- Our Existential Threats -- Covid-19 and Conspiracy Theories -- Unsustainable Human Population -- Growing Energy Demands -- Climate Change -- Biodiversity Loss -- Water -- Health and Environment -- The Rise of Far-Right Extremists -- Addiction to Technology and Smart Phone -- What Has Become of Us? -- A Distorted World of Humans -- Shades of Imperfection -- Imperfect Humans Make Imperfect Judgements -- My Dilemma -- What Will Possibly Happen to Me if I Live Longer? -- The Lure of Living to an Older Age -- Earth Will Be Happy (a Poem) -- References -- 2 Abysmal State of a Democracy During the Pandemic -- Introduction -- Indian Democracy and Covid-19 Pandemic -- Second Wave of Covid-19-A Tsunami -- What Caused the Covid-19 Tsunami? -- India-A Glimpse in May 2021 -- Role of the Indian Political Leadership -- Kumbh Mela-The Super-Spreader -- Bengal Elections 2021 -- Was India's Second Wave Engineered? -- Did the Indian Leadership Blunder? -- Violence in Bangladesh (March 2021) -- The Lancet on India's Covid-19 Crisis -- An Open Letter to Indian Government -- India's Press and Media Freedom -- India's Higher Education -- Tropical Cyclones Tauktae and Yass -- UP Mosque Demolition -- Kashmiris Arrested for Pro-Palestine Protests -- References -- 3 Ground Reality of Democracy -- Introduction -- Electors and Elections -- General -- Social Media Influences -- Uneven Playing Fields Disadvantages -- Good Acting Skills Work -- Australian Democracy -- Federal Government -- State and Territory Government -- Local Government -- Australian Constitution and Judiciary -- Australia's Issues -- Western Australia's State Election-March 2021.

This book comments on growing authoritarianism in democracy and suggests how it ought to be instead. It asks if some degree of authoritarianism is the need of the hour to address potentially existential issues facing the human race. Readers are encouraged to analyse the state of democracy in their own countries and verify if it meets their expectations, or if it is just a myth or an imposter, or a necessary but imperfect compulsion in the absence of a perfect alternative. The book presents a commentary on the state of democracy in some of the world's leading democracies. It aims to challenge the human mind, which seems to be getting accustomed to not having to think, thanks to a constant bombardment of information--real and fake and in-between--that it receives through social and print media, which is freely accessible through smartphone to which it has become addicted. It discusses how the drivers of capitalism--through their business-like connections with powerful and influential politicians and celebrities--could be cleverly manipulating the gullible human mind and exploiting the system to their own material benefit. Bill K. Koul is an engineer by profession and an author by passion. He has worked on numerous infrastructure projects globally in his more than 35-year long engineering career. As an author, this is his ninth published book. He writes on a range of topic related to humanities, such as human wellness, education, philosophy, human and environmental sustainability and politics. .