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July 2, 2008
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Daily Analysis
Iraq says it wants to sell oil contracts to foreign energy firms. The potential impact on energy markets could be large, but practical and political obstacles still prevent rapid production increases.
See more in United States, Iraq, Energy, Natural Resources Management, Foreign Aid
July 2, 2008
| Author: | Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Senior Fellow for International Economics |
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Op-Ed
New York Sun
Because of their discriminatory effect and the preferential treatment they give to member nations, Free Trade Agreements must be placed on moratorium, writes Jagdish Bhagwati.
See more in International Organizations
July 1, 2008
Don Oberdorfer, Chairman of the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Interview
Don Oberdorfer, an expert on the two Koreas, says the recent street protests ostensibly against the import of U.S. beef are much more political protests against the new conservative government in Seoul.
See more in United States, Northeast Asia, North Korea, South Korea, Public Health Threats, U.S. Strategy and Politics
June 30, 2008
| Author: | Lee Hudson Teslik, Associate Editor |
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Backgrounder
A primer on how global food markets work, parsing various influencing factors including weather, market speculation, and rising energy prices.
See more in Natural Resources Management, Global Health
June 27, 2008
Paul Collier, professor of economics, Oxford University interviewed by Stephanie Hanson, News Editor, CFR.org
Interview
Paul Collier, an economist and author of The Bottom Billion, discusses five steps to sustainable resource management in Africa.
See more in Africa, Economic Development, Emerging Markets
June 23, 2008
| Authors: | Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Senior Fellow for International Economics Arvind Panagariya |
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Op-Ed
Financial Times
With the Doha trade round in danger of slipping from our grasp, it has become commonplace to assert that the food crisis, while a tragedy, is a shot in the arm for the talks. In this Financial Times op-ed, Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya find that only one such argument passes muster—the fact that high food prices should soften U.S. opposition to lower agricultural subsidies, thereby relaxing key constraints on the final compromises necessary to reach an agreement on agricultural liberalisation.
See more in India, International Organizations
June 20, 2008
Essential Documents
Republican presidential candidate John McCain gave this speech to the Economic Club of Toronto in Ottawa, Canada on June 20, 2008.
See more in Canada, United States, U.S. Election 2008
June 17, 2008
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Daily Analysis
Seoul's conservative government is struggling to reconcile its foreign policy goals with the popular sentiments of its people.
See more in United States, South Korea, Democracy and Human Rights, Elections
June 4, 2008
| Author: | Lee Hudson Teslik, Associate Editor |
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Backgrounder
Trade between China and the Gulf Cooperation Council has spiked in recent years, with potentially broad economic and geopolitical consequences.
See more in China, Gulf States
May 2008
| Author: | Robert Driskill |
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Must Read
Robert Driskill, economics professor at Vanderbilt University, says economists need to do a better job of explaining the benefits of free trade.
See more in United States
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Latin America (7/3): Julia Sweig looks at why Colombia is a lucrative part of John McCain’s foreign policy, in the Washington Independent.
U.S. Foreign Policy (7/2): James Goldgeier and Derek Chollet look at the schism among Republicans about the future direction of U.S. foreign policy, in National Interest.
Trade (7/2): Jagdish Bhagwati argues that Free Trade Agreements must be placed on moratorium, in the New York Sun.
Diplomacy (6/30): Walter Russell Mead argues that closer ties between Australia and Canada would bring substantial benefits to both, in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Economics (6/30): Sebastian Mallaby discusses oil futures and the folly of price controls, in the Washington Post.
U.S. Politics and Religion (6/27): Michael Gerson argues that the issue of abortion is Obama’s greatest obstacle to securing support from evangelicals, in the Washington Post.
After two decades of liberalization, many countries around the world are adopting new restrictions on foreign direct investment (FDI) that could retard continued progress. The authors make recommendations for correcting this protectionist drift by proposing guidelines for how countries can better regulate FDI yet still reap its economic benefits.
In this Council Special Report, the authors make a strong case that the Bush administration’s policy of diplomatic isolation of Syria is not serving U.S. interests, and offer informed history and thoughtful analysis of the country and its external behavior.
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.
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