C. Donald Johnson is Director Emeritus, Dean Rusk International Law Center, University of Georgia School of Law; former U.S. Ambassador in Office of U.S. Trade Representative; former Member U.S. Congress; and author of The Wealth of a Nation: A History of Trade Politics in America (Oxford University Press, May 2018), from which this essay is partially derived.

The author has written numerous academic and Op-ed articles on the subject of international trade over the years, including most recently, "A Return to Bilateral Agreements: An End to the Nondiscriminatory Multilateral Trading System?", 46 GA Journal of International and Comparative Law 691 (2018). See also www.cdonaldjohnson.com for recent op-ed commentary.