: A Fading Institution - 25 years of the World Trade Organization: the WTO through the media looking glass

Since the mid-2000s, the intensity of public perception of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has declined considerably. Multilateral approaches have gradually disappeared from trade policy discourses. The debate is increasingly dominated by national perspectives. Only the protectionist trade policy of US President Donald Trump has shifted the focus back to the WTO.

You can download figures from the focus paper here:

- Intensity of reporting on the WTO in Germany
- Intensity of reporting on the WTO in the United States
- Reporting on globalization in the context of the WTO
- U.S. reporting on China in the context of the WTO
- U.S. reporting on trade conflicts in the context of the WTO
- How often WTO heads are mentioned during their term of office, German media
- How often WTO heads are mentioned during their term of office, U.S. media