A student of international trade with a bit of free time really ought to clean up the Wikipedia entry on the gravity model. You might do so by working from the first few pages of gravity for dummies.
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Trade Diversion 
Wow, I didn’t realize that Isard did the first gravity model. He hangs out at Peace Science every year and is still an active member in the political science quantitative studies community.