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Spotlight on Brazil, trade and environment: Can the U.S. pressure Brazil without a trade deal?
Renata Amaral, Adjunct Professor at Washington College of Law and Founder of Women Inside Trade Brazil’s image on climate and environment issues is not in its best shape. Especially abroad....
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G7 and Tech Governance
What this week’s summitry means for tech policy The past week of summitry was preceded by President Biden's promise to re-engage and reset – or reel in – the oldest (but not necessarily the...
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Filling the void: Can global private leaders replace government?
Last year, NASA launched its first human space mission from US soil since the end of the space shuttle program in 2011. For almost a decade, US astronauts had been dependent on Russian Soyuz...
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Who is Afraid of Global Trade?
There is a growing narrative in international trade that globalisation is causing increased concentration of production and that countries are relying too much on foreign imports. One of the clearest...
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Industrial Policy: Europe’s (Second) Hamiltonian Moment
Thanks to Anna Guildea for helpful comments. Alexander Hamilton, Europe’s new inspirational hero, not just because EU members have agreed to issue debt collectively for the first time, but...
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Careless advocacy on 5G RAN
Author thanks Claudia Lozano for her research assistance Those who call for non-WTO compliant support for O-RAN are either indifferent or nescient about how our trade negotiators try to uphold a...
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Biding time for a new U.S. trade agenda
This note (originally published in print by the Global Commerce Institute in November 2020) looked at the direction of the U.S. trade policy under the new administration, immediately after the...
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Europe’s Naivety and Strategic Autonomy
The EU doesn’t want to be the battle ground for the trade and technological war between China and the US. Trapped between these two powers, Europe feels as dependent on US big-tech as it claims to...
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Irish-American: Biden’s Heritage and Transatlantic Relations
On the night of November 7th as Biden officially won the United States presidential election, a clip from several years ago resurfaced to make its rounds on Twitter: the President-Elect can be seen...
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Biden’s win creates a new global trade challenge – delivering results
President Biden will enter the White House to considerable goodwill from an international community mostly relieved that they don’t have to put up with another four years of President Trump. The...