Brazil on the World Stage
Can Latin America's largest country rise above the hurdles?
On the Newsstand:Free Trade
Protectionists at the Gates
The future of the WTO and the Doha trade round July 29, 2008 witnessed the collapse of the World Trade Organization’s Doha Round, high-level negotiations aimed at lowering trade barriers between countries. Immediate reactions were varied, reflecting international ambivalence about globalization. Free traders viewed the collapse as a disaster, poverty activists as a moral failure, and globalization’s malcontents as a ... Read More
The Adolescent Years
After Barack Obama’s victory on Tuesday Paul Krugman wrote that the election wasn’t “just a victory for tolerance; it wasn’t just a mandate for progressive change; it was also, I hope, the end of the monster years.” Krugman seemed to suggest that people like Karl Rove are monsters because they contributed offensive ideas to the American political discourse, like the ... Read More
