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Economies

The Fair Play Debate: Fair Trade

Joseph E. Stiglitz | Apr 25, 2008
The odds are against developing countries when it comes to trade. Social safeguards level the playing field.

Trading Up

Shanker A. Singham | Jul 01, 2007
Policymakers can break down regulatory barriers to trade by concerning themselves with consumer, not producer, welfare.

Swedish Models

Johan Norberg | Jun 01, 2006
Everyone always wants to be like Sweden.  What happens whenthe socialist paradise fails.

The Culture Club

Lawrence E. Harrison | Mar 01, 2006
Not all cultures are equally conducive to progress.

Poverty and Globalization

Shanker A. Singham
Donna Hrinak
| Dec 01, 2005
Protecting consumer interests is the path to global peace and prosperity.

Reversing Proliferation

Ira Straus | Sep 01, 2004
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.
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Commentary

Friedman's Civil-Society Panacea

Lewis McCrary | Feb 08, 2013
The New York Times columnist oversimplifies the world once again.

Terrorism, Missile Defense and Arms Control

Peter Huessy | May 05, 2004
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

Peter Coleman | Dec 01, 1998
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

H.J. Kaplan | Dec 01, 1998
 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

Robert F. Ellsworth | Dec 01, 1998
Chace's Acheson is encompassing, graceful and prodigiously researched and annotated.
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