Trade

Follow the Money

A simple reform created for stopping terrorist financiers could dramatically strengthen international sanctions, and cut off the flow of funds to some of the world’s worst regimes.

BY STUART LEVEY, CHRISTY CLARK | OCTOBER 3, 2011

Doha Is Dead

But do we really need multilateral institutions anymore to kick-start international trade?

BY LAWRENCE HERMAN, GARY CLYDE HUFBAUER | SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

This Fight Ain't Over

Think the debt ceiling gridlock was ugly? Congress is just getting warmed up. Here are eight more foreign-policy battles right around the corner.

BY JOSH ROGIN | AUGUST 4, 2011

Knesset of Fools

A harsh new anti-boycott bill will help achieve the exact opposite of what its advocates intended: the delegitimization of the Jewish state.

BY HUSSEIN IBISH | JULY 12, 2011

Poor Little Rich Country

How do you categorize India, a nation that is at once fantastically wealthy and desperately poor?

BY PATRICK FRENCH | JUNE 24, 2011

Doha or Bust

The world's developing economies need to find a way to finish the Doha round -- but maybe not for the reasons you think.

BY HOMI KHARAS | JUNE 2, 2011

Inpatients Abroad

How do you solve America's health-care woes? Outsource them.

BY CHARLES KENNY | MAY 30, 2011

The Rise of the Red Market

How the best intentions of the medical community accidentally created an international organ-trafficking underground.

BY SCOTT CARNEY | MAY 30, 2011

China's Port in Pakistan?

China's dream of Indian Ocean ports -- the so-called string of pearls -- is heightening geopolitical tensions in a rough neighborhood.

BY ROBERT D. KAPLAN | MAY 27, 2011

Interview: Ronald Kirk

FP speaks with the Obama administration's trade representative about this year's big three trade deals, their prospects on Capitol Hill – and why even Democrats should get in on the act.

INTERVIEW BY SUSAN GLASSER | APRIL 27, 2011

A Market for Good

Why American workers need the U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement.

BY MAX BAUCUS | APRIL 22, 2011

The Future of Trade

The Deep Dive briefing on the World Trade Organization and why it matters.

BY JOSHUA MELTZER | APRIL 18, 2011

All Talks, No Action

Forget about the stalled Doha round negotiations -- developing countries can do plenty to fix their trade restrictions without the World Trade Organization's help.

BY CHARLES KENNY | APRIL 18, 2011

America's Free Trade Moment

Why the United States must sign three pending free trade agreements -- or risk losing its place in the global economy.

BY ORRIN HATCH | APRIL 18, 2011

Finish Doha, Save the Fish

How global trade talks could replenish our overfished seas.

BY PETER ALLGEIER | APRIL 18, 2011

A Bad Trade

Obama has swapped smart policy for the same-old job-crushing trade deals.

BY TODD TUCKER | APRIL 18, 2011

Nothing Free About It

The supposedly free trade deals miss the real barriers to global exchange.

BY CLYDE V. PRESTOWITZ | APRIL 18, 2011

On the Road to Doha

How the WTO has liberalized agricultural trade.

BY JASON H. GRANT , KATHRYN A. BOYS | APRIL 18, 2011

The People's Prescription

Why Congress must re-authorize measures to help globalization's jobless get back to work.

BY HOWARD ROSEN | APRIL 18, 2011

System Upgrade

We're saddled with a 20th Century trading system. We need new rules for tomorrow -- and we need them now.

BY PASCAL LAMY | APRIL 18, 2011

¡Viva la Recesión!

Are bad economies good for democracy?

BY CHARLES KENNY | MARCH 7, 2011

Egypt's Cauldron of Revolt

It was striking workers that first inspired the Egyptian uprising. And they're still at it.

BY ANAND GOPAL | FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Strait Talk

Barack Obama doesn't want you to know about it, but his administration just made the biggest move in more than a decade to open up Cuba.

BY ARTURO LOPEZ-LEVY | JANUARY 31, 2011

I Was a Rare Earths Day Trader

How a naval confrontation in the South China Sea created a global investment bubble -- and cost me half my life savings.

BY JASON MIKLIAN | JANUARY 21, 2011

Tilting at Wind Turbines

Americans are fretting over China's green leap forward. They shouldn't be.

BY MICHAEL LEVI | JANUARY 19, 2011

The Serpent King

How a notorious Malaysian wildlife smuggler was brought to justice -- and what it tells us about stopping the world's most profitable black market.

BY BRYAN CHRISTY | DECEMBER 28, 2010

Not Your Father's Cuba

What Marco Rubio and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen don't get about the new generation of Cuban-Americans.

BY ARTURO LOPEZ-LEVY | NOVEMBER 5, 2010

A New 'New Beginning'

What Barack Obama should tell the world in his Asia speech.

BY JAMES TRAUB | NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Robert Kaplan's New Global Geography

In Monsoon, our latter-day Kipling makes the case that America can't rule the whole world alone.

BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL | OCTOBER 27, 2010

The End of the Charm Offensive

China's neighbors welcome a strong China, just not a dominant one -- and that's where the United States comes in.

BY JOHN LEE | OCTOBER 26, 2010