Abstract

Domestic politics shapes international trade policy, but exactly how and why re-mains an open question. We explore the cutting edge literature that focuses on how agents ’ interests are formed, whose interests are organized, and how those interests in-teract with each other via domestic political institutions to generate both trade policy and international cooperation over trade more broadly. In turn, trade policies operate as a feedback loop. International cooperation via international organizations, treaties, and more informal regimes, generates information which affects the domestic politics conflict in substantive ways. We explore each of these topics and suggest future research paths. 1