Introduction to the Special Issue on Package Treaties

Globalization generates benefits for nations around the world, but it also creates winners and losers within nations. As former WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy puts it: ‘Globalization works because it is painful, and it is painful because it works’.$^{1}$ This is why international economic integration inevitably creates a collective action problem; opposition by losers may thwart policies that would benefit nations overall.