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Economies

The Fair Play Debate: Fair Trade

The odds are against developing countries when it comes to trade. Social safeguards level the playing field.

Trading Up

Policymakers can break down regulatory barriers to trade by concerning themselves with consumer, not producer, welfare.

Swedish Models

Everyone always wants to be like Sweden.  What happens whenthe socialist paradise fails.

The Culture Club

Not all cultures are equally conducive to progress.

Poverty and Globalization

Protecting consumer interests is the path to global peace and prosperity.

Reversing Proliferation

For the first time since Hiroshima, we have the objective conditions for halting and reversing WMD proliferation. All we need is for the great powers to cooperate.

Commentary

Friedman's Civil-Society Panacea

The New York Times columnist oversimplifies the world once again.

Terrorism, Missile Defense and Arms Control

In August 2001, a former chief terrorism expert at the Department of State wrote in the New York Times that the Bush Administration was obsessed with terrorism and using it to persuade the American people to build missile defenses.

Books & Reviews

Uncomfortable, but Invaluable

Urban's is not a happy memoir. The subtitle, My War Within the Cold War, sums up his theme. The new policy involved years of often bitter struggle with both grotesque reactionaries and Western appeasers.

The Other France

 Modernizing the Provincial City does not tell us anything we did not already know about how the French became and are becoming what they have been and are.

Acheson, Simply Put

Chace's Acheson is encompassing, graceful and prodigiously researched and annotated.

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May 21, 2013