The 1994 Agreement of Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), a component of the World Trade Organization (WTO), was sold as a means to devolve the protection of non-material property from the international to the national level, but El Said (international trade law, U. of Central Lancashire) argues that it in fact does not do so. He describes how regulation at the global scale is accelerating and intensifying, taking as a case study the Arab world generally and Jordan in particularly. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)