International Organizations

TRADE IN ACTION November 9, 2018

By Global Business & Economics Program

One hundred years of American grand strategy

By Daniel Fried

Historians have not been kind to Wilson or the Fourteen Points. They have fairly noted the inconsistencies, hypocrisies, and nasty unintended consequences of Wilson’s outline of US global leadership.

Europe’s primary season

By Nick Ottens

In Spain, parties have opened up their leadership contests to all members, not just delegates. In France, even non-members can vote in presidential primaries. And Germany’s ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) will for the first time have a competitive leadership election this year.

TRADE IN ACTION November 2, 2018

By Global Business & Economics Program

Rome’s options in budget battle with Brussels

By David A. Wemer

The Italian proposal violates a European Commission stipulation that budget deficits must decline year-on-year. Instead, under this proposal, Rome’s deficit would continue to grow.

The threat to Europe

By Frederick Kempe

The same brand of nationalism and populism that unifies Trump's voters, and inflames his detractors at home and abroad, is a far more fundamental challenge to one of history's great experiments, the European integration project that evolved after World War II.

TRADE IN ACTION October 26, 2018

By Global Business & Economics Program

Gadhafi’s Libya and the importance of not shunning the past

By Karim Mezran

It is now common to hear in the streets of the capital Tripoli and other Libyan cities the wistful sentiment: “I wish we could go back to the golden period of Gadhafi’s rule.”

TRADE IN ACTION October 18, 2018

By Global Business & Economics Program