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The Free Trade Debate

Joseph Stiglitz and Gary Hufbauer

The Fair Play Debate: Free Trade

Rhetoric aside, free trade can benefit everyone—if only countries were a little more open to the rules of the game.

Exporting Europe's Protectionism

Europe is busy making protectionism a cultural value. And you thought Doha was messy.

Don't Cut the Cheese

No more Brie, no more Stilton, no more Gorgonzola. Just what have Washington and Brussels got against cheese? Don't you know there's a war on?

Retreat from Globalization

Bush appeases the anti-globalizers; the Democrats embrace them; the economy bubbles along; and the clouds gather.

The Dating Game

American is playing matchmaker to Turkey and the EU. It had better work. A broken engagement could mean a clash of civilizations.

Commentary

Cold Water for Hot Trade Deals

The TPP and TTIP trade arrangements still have their toughest work ahead of them.

Take Chinese Hacking to the WTO

Taking Beijing to court might be the only way to get cooperation on cybersecurity.

Intellectual-Property Pirates of the Caribbean

Antigua might open up a new front against the United States in international trade enforcement.

Books & Reviews

A Champion for the Bourgeoisie

A fictional 19th-century detective disdains Russia's intelligentsia and preaches a bourgeois sermon on virtue and responsible citizenship to Russia's nascent middle class.

Imperialism: the Highest Stage of American Capitalism?

Andrew Bacevich's American Empire is really two books in one: one quite good, the other quite inexplicable.

Meaning Well

Maximilian II managed to be both ahead of his time and behind it simultaneously. His life warns us against allowing ourselves to fall into a similar predicament.

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May 20, 2013