Home |
Site Index |
FAQs |
Contact |
RSS
|
Podcast
March 21, 2008
| Author: | Lee Hudson Teslik, Assistant Editor |
|---|
Backgrounder
A look at the basics of the North American Free Trade Agreement, its overall economic impact, and its effect on workers in the United States.
See more in NAFTA, Economics, Trade
Updated: March 18, 2008
Online Debate
Jeffrey J. Schott, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and Thea M. Lee, policy director for the AFL-CIO, debate what the next president should do on the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Updated February 1, 2008
Online Debate
Jonathan Jacoby of the Center for American Progress and Robert Lane Greene of the Economist debate the shape of trade policy for the next U.S. administration.
See more in Trade
November 2007
Essential Documents
Report
See more in Poverty
November 29, 2007
| Speaker: | Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations |
|---|---|
| Presider: | Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program & Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations |
Audio
Listen to Jagdish N. Bhagwati, CFR's senior fellow for international economics, discuss his book In Defense of Globalization with students as part of the CFR Academic Conference Call Series.
November 21, 2007
| Author: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
|---|
Op-Ed
National Interest online
Walter Russell Mead argues that “a Sarkozy who overcomes the transport unions will take a decisive step toward the modernization of France.”
See more in France
Updated: November 14, 2007
| Author: |
|---|
Daily Analysis
France’s new president has ambitious plans for the country’s economy. But to push through reforms, he will have to face down nationwide strikes.
See more in France
October 15, 2007
| Author: | Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Senior Fellow for International Economics |
|---|
Article
Council on Foreign Relations
Newspaper and magazine stories refer to a "loss of nerve", even a "loss of faith" in free trade by economists. When presidential candidates are challenged by free trade proponents, they typically say: "Ah, but economists no longer have a consensus on free trade." But the truth of the matter is that free trade is alive. The analytical arguments in favor of trade have hardly been dented by its critics, such as Alan Blinder, arrayed against it.
See more in Economic Development, Geoeconomics, Trade
Updated: October 1, 2007
| Author: |
|---|
Daily Analysis
With fears over globalization growing, Congress may overhaul legislation aimed at protecting U.S.workers adversely affected by trade.
See more in United States, Economics
September 26, 2007
| Author: | Matthew J. Slaughter, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Globalization |
|---|
Op-Ed
Wall Street Journal
Many are viewing the UAW-GM strike as Exhibit A for how globalization damages America . Matthew Slaughter argues that America ’s automobile industry is a prime example of the aggregate gains generated by the dynamic and interrelated forces of trade, investment and technological change. He questions how the presidential contenders will craft an American economic policy that both allows greater globalization and also spreads its gains as widely as possible.
See more in United States, U.S. Election 2008
The Council offers a variety of email newsletters about up-to-date CFR.org material on what’s happening around the world.
Enter your email address,and click 'Go' to subscribe.
Council Experts are based in the Council’s New York and Washington offices. Each expert's bio page contains his or her contact information, professional and educational history, links to publications and current research, a downloadable one-page biographical narrative, and a high-definition photo.
Global Health (5/14): Michael Gerson urges the Senate to reauthorize PEPFAR, in the Washington Post.
Iraq War (5/13): Max Boot analyzes the habit of U.S. generals passing the buck when it comes to the failures in Iraq, in the Washington Post.
Burma (5/13): Ivo Daalder and Paul Stares argue that the United Nations must invoke its “responsibility to protect” clause and intervene in Burma, in the Boston Globe.
Mideast (5/13): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. to focus its efforts on restoring Israeli-Syrian negotiations, in Newsweek.
U.S. Presidential Election (5/9): Michael Gerson looks at the sticking points of the “Obama narrative,” in the Washington Post.
Iraq (5/8): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. and Iraqi governments not to exclude Muqtada al-Sadr from the political process, in The National.
Campaign 2008 (5/5): It would be a travesty if Obama’s campaign gets knocked off course because of his former preacher, writes Sebastian Mallaby in the Washington Post.
Climate change poses threats to national security in a number of ways. In this report, sponsored by the Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Joshua W. Busby offers specific recommendations for confronting this important issue, including a list of "no-regrets" policies.
This report, by International Affairs Fellow Michelle D. Gavin and sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, surveys the current situation in Zimbabwe and proposes steps that can increase the likelihood that regime change, when it comes, will bring constructive reform instead of conflict and state collapse.
Complete list of Council Special Reports.
In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.
America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.
In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.
Complete list of CFR Books.
Senior Fellow for International Economics
Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics
Deputy Director of Studies
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Foreign Policy
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Globalization
Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics
Copyright 2008 by the Council on Foreign Relations. All Rights Reserved.
