Trade

Trade or Die

JULY 1, 2005

Mind Sharing

BY GRAHAM DUTFIELD | MARCH 1, 2005

Lifting All Boats

Why China's great leap is good for the world's poor.

BY HOMI KHARAS | JANUARY 5, 2005

Troubled Waters

Plugging the leaks: how to improve the shipping industry.

NOVEMBER 1, 2004

America Overdrawn

The U.S. economy is the world's economic engine. But with American citizens saving less and Washington spending more, that engine is now running on fumes. Together, these trends could ignite trade protectionism and threaten global economic integration.

BY LAWRENCE H. SUMMERS | JULY 1, 2004

Ranking the Rich 2004

The second annual CGD/FP Commitment to Development Index ranks 21 rich nations on how their aid, trade, investment, migration, environment, security, and technology policies help poor countries. Find out who's up, who's down, why Denmark and the Netherlands earn the top spots, and why Japan once again finishes last.

MAY 1, 2004

Hired Guns

The not so small arms trade.

BY WILLIAM HARTUNG, RACHEL STOHL | MAY 1, 2004

Trade at Your Own Risk

BY PHILIPPE LEGRAIN | MARCH 1, 2004

How to Be a Free Trade Democrat

The Democratic presidential nominee must defeat misconceptions about globalization in order to forge a new trade policy that will both boost economic growth and protect workers.

BY GENE SPERLING | MARCH 1, 2004

Brazil's Balancing Act

BY ELIZABETH JOHNSON | JANUARY 1, 2004

Trade Secrets

The real message of the collapse of trade talks in Cancún: Business as usual is over for the WTO.

BY LORI WALLACH | JANUARY 1, 2004

Think Again: International Trade

Why have disagreements between rich and poor nations stalled the global trading system? Because vapid debates over "fair trade" obscure some inconvenient facts: First, notwithstanding their demands for equity, poor countries are more protectionist than advanced economies. Second, if rich nations cut their self-defeating agricultural subsidies, their own publics would benefit, but consumers in many poor countries would not. Finally, despite criticisms to the contrary, the WTO can help promote economic development in low-income countries -- but only if rich nations let the global body do its job.

BY ARVIND PANAGARIYA | NOVEMBER 1, 2003

Irrelevant WTO

SEPTEMBER 1, 2003

Mexico's Globophobe Punks

BY SAM QUINONES | SEPTEMBER 1, 2003

Cheap Dollar Diplomacy

Worries over U.S.-European estrangement miss the real threat: the falling U.S. dollar.

BY MOISÉS NAÍM | JULY 1, 2003

Ranking the Rich 2003

In a groundbreaking new ranking, FOREIGN POLICY teamed up with Center for Global Development to create the first annual CGD/FP Commitment to Development Index, which grades 21 rich nations on whether their aid, trade, migration, investment, peacekeeping, and environmental policies help or hurt poor nations. Find out why the Netherlands ranks first and why the world's two largest aid givers -- the United States and Japan -- finish last.

BY FOREIGN POLICY, CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT | MAY 1, 2003

The Market for Civil War

Ethnic tensions and ancient political feuds are not starting civil wars around the world. A groundbreaking new study of civil conflict over the last 40 years reveals that economic forces -- such as entrenched poverty and the trade in natural resources -- are the true culprits. The solution? Curb rebel financing, jump-start economic growth in vulnerable regions, and provide a robust military presence in nations emerging from conflict.

BY PAUL COLLIER | MAY 1, 2003

Multilateral Meltdown

It's time for another walk in the Bretton Woods.

BY MIKE MOORE | MARCH 1, 2003

Saving Latin America

George W. Bush should use a U.S.-Brazil trade deal to jolt Latin America out of its drift toward political morass and economic chaos.

BY MOISÉS NAÍM | NOVEMBER 1, 2002

Happily Ever NAFTA?

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has sparked fierce academic and political disputes -- not to mention an armed rebellion or two. Looking back on its nearly nine years of existence, has NAFTA delivered or disappointed? The answer will go a long way toward determining the future of regional trade pacts. U.S. critics clash with Mexico's original NAFTA architects on whether free trade in North America is a blessing or a curse.

BY SARAH ANDERSON, JOHN CAVANAGH | SEPTEMBER 1, 2002

Not Just a Game

BY PAVANI REDDY | SEPTEMBER 1, 2002

Ice Breaker

MAY 1, 2002

Prime Numbers: Sweet and Sour Deal

China joins the WTO.

BY NICHOLAS R. LARDY | MARCH 1, 2002

Advice for Anarchists

Who is blocking globalization, the protesters or the summiteers?

BY MOISÉS NAÍM | SEPTEMBER 1, 2001

Vox Americani

What do Americans want? The U.S. public's view of the world has long been a study in what seem like maddening contradictions, at times both altruistic and paranoid, protectionist and entrepreneurial, and isolationist and multilateralist. Like many other analysts, FP's editors have worn deep furrows into our brows trying to discern how Americans see the world and their place in it. So we invited Steven Kull, director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland and author of several groundbreaking studies of U.S. public opinion, to "interview" the American people on the most pressing global issues of the day. He created a composite of average Americans -- a virtual John/Jane Q. Public -- derived from the majority positions in extensive polling data and using the kind of language he commonly hears in focus groups. (An annotated version of this interview can be found at www.foreignpolicy.com with footnotes citing poll questions and data.) As it turns out, Americans defy simple labels, largely because they refuse to submit to simplistic choices.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2001

Arms vs. Debt

SEPTEMBER 1, 2001

Is the WTO Legit?

BY KEVIN WATKINS | SEPTEMBER 1, 2001

Free Trade-Offs

BY BRUCE STOKES | MAY 1, 2001

Chinese Fake-Out

BY ANDREW B. LOWENSTEIN | MARCH 1, 2001

Bottom Feeders

The "race to the bottom" in global labor and environmental standards has captivated journalists, politicians, and activists worldwide. Why does this myth persist? Because it is a useful scare tactic for multinational corporations and populist agitators peddling their policy wares.

BY DANIEL W. DREZNER | NOVEMBER 1, 2000