Trade Tensions: Challenges and Opportunities After the Midterm Elections

Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Speakers
Jagdish N. Bhagwati

Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations; Professor of Economics and Law, Columbia University; Author, In Defense of Globalization and Termites in the Trading System: How Preferential Agreements Undermine Free Trade

Charlene Barshefsky

Senior International Partner, WilmerHale; Former U.S. Trade Representative

Douglas A. Irwin

Robert E. Maxwell '23 Professor of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, Dartmouth College; Author, Free Trade Under Fire

Presider
Edward Alden

Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Washington Bureau Chief, Financial Times

Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium on Global Economics

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