Charts emerging countries' dissatisfaction with the world order and offers perspectives for a new international economic governance regime.

Sonia E. Rolland is a Professor of Law at School of Law, Northeastern University, Boston. She is the author of Development at the WTO (2012) and regularly acts as an expert for international and non-governmental organizations including the United Nations, the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, and the India Institute of Foreign Trade. She has held appointments at Columbia University, Georgetown University and the University of Michigan.

1. Introduction; 2. Cooperation narratives and theoretical divergences; 3. Developing countries' love-hate relationship with neoliberalism; 4. Seeking a new balance of rights and obligations in international investment law; 5. Emerging economies, developmental strategies, and trade standards: the search for alternative space; 6. Emerging economies and the future of the global trade and investment regime.