RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
November 24, 2008, The Brookings Institution
With the opportunity of a new U.S. administration and Congress, Brookings’s Partnership for the Americas Commission released its final report noting the need for a new hemispheric partnership to address key transnational challenges and providing specific policy recommendations on five key areas: energy and climate change, migration, trade, organized crime and drug trafficking and U.S.-Cuban relations. Read More
PAST EVENT
Monday, November 24, 2008
10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, DC
On November 24, the Brookings Institution hosted the Partnership for the Americas Commission for the release of their report, “Re-thinking U.S.-Latin American Relations: A Hemispheric Partnership for a Turbulent World," which offers a set of policy recommendations to the next U.S. administration to meet the challenges facing the U.S. and Latin America, from economic and poverty policies to security, foreign policy and energy. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Paul Blustein, November 17, 2008, The Brookings Institution
At the G20 summit, leaders pledged to strive to reach an agreement on the Doha Round this year and also resist the temptation to raise new barries to investment and trade. Paul Blustein, an expert on the WTO, discusses the outcome and what is ahead for the global trade agenda. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
David Shambaugh, November 17, 2008, Yale Global Online
China is increasingly forming trade, investment, technology, security, and cultural ties with Latin American nations. David Shambaugh notes that while ties are expanding rapidly in many spheres, not all of this expansion is positive from the Latin American perspective. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Strobe Talbott, November 02, 2008, Financial Times
Climate change, nuclear proliferation, global trade and poverty, pandemics and terrorism will top the next president's agenda. The biggest job for the new U.S. administration, says Strobe Talbott, is to find better methods of governing an interdependent world. That is the only way to ensure the upside of globalization prevails over the downside. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
October 2008, The Brookings Institution
As President-Elect Obama prepares to lead the United States, what are the top global economic challenges facing the new president and his advisors and how should the new administration address them? A new report by Brookings global economic and development experts ranks the top 10 issues and details specific ideas for how to tackle the toughest challenges. Read More
PAST EVENT
Friday, September 19, 2008
8:30 AM to 10:00 AM
Washington, DC
On September 19, the Latin America Initiative at Brookings hosted a conversation with President Alvaro Uribe Vélez of Colombia. President Uribe discussed the U.S.-Colombia relationship, including economic and security challenges including his administration’s fight against the illegal drug trade and prospects for the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Kevin Casas-Zamora, September 12, 2008, YaleGlobal
Kevin Casas-Zamora argues that if free trade is to succeed, advocates must address the real problems trade liberalization creates for many in the developing world. Developing nations, now increasingly important actors in the global economy, likewise deserve a larger role in governing the system of global trade. Read More
PAST EVENT
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Washington, DC
As the global economic and power structures have shifted in recent years, calls for reform of global institutions and governance mechanisms have increased. On September 10, Brookings hosted the Centre for International Governance Innovation to discuss the possibility of reform of current international organizations and processes and what the best options are for effective reform. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Warwick J. McKibbin and Tingsong Jiang, August 2008, The Broookings Institution
In “What Does a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific Mean to China,” the latest installment of the Brookings Global Economy and Development working paper series, Tingsong Jiang, Senior Economist at the Centre for International Economics in Australia, and Warwick J. McKibbin, Nonresident Senior Fellow in Global Economy and Development, assert it is in China’s interest to actively liberalize trade in the Asia-Pacific region. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya, August 21, 2008, The New York Sun
Arvind Panagariya, a nonresident senior fellow in Brookings's Global Economy and Development program, and Jagdish Bhagwati, an economics professor at Columbia University, discuss issues surrounding the recent collapse of the Doha Round and the strides WTO director general Pascal Lamy is taking to salvage a successful trade deal. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Paul Blustein, August 2008, World Policy Journal, Volume 23, Issue 2
In a recent World Policy Journal article, Paul Blustein, Journalist-in-Residence in Global Economy and Development, questions the merits of free trade agreements and the motivations behind them. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Paul Blustein, August 20, 2008, The Brookings Institution
Negotiations in the Doha Round of global trade talks broke down July 29 at the World Trade Organization’s headquarters in Geneva. Paul Blustein discusses the WTO’s centrality to the global trading system, warns that erosion of its authority would endanger the system’s stability, and challenges the United States to halt the pursuit of further bilateral and regional trade agreements, as those pacts threaten to undermine multilateralism. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Kristin M. Lord, August 15, 2008, The Brookings Institution
Kristin Lord examines public opinion relevant to the transatlantic relationship; transatlantic opinion regarding terrorism, climate change, and international trade; and public diplomacy and how it might advance the transatlantic agenda. Read More
VIDEO
Wing Thye Woo, August 08, 2008
China has enjoyed significant economic growth and become a major global actor. Wing Thye Woo notes that China’s economic muscle, driven by infrastructure and exports, is probably safe from a short-term global recession. But a longer recession could threaten China's ability to modernize its industries.