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A Middle Power Agenda for the Global Trading System

Sam Hardwick | East Asia Forum | 05/26/2026

Middle powers can — and likely will — maintain and improve the rules-based trading system. The question is how they should seek to do so. The right path is to…

Beyond America First

Kevin P. Gallagher & Jose Antonio Ocampo | The American Prospect | 11/27/2025

Countries in the Global South increasingly view President Trump...

Korea Needs Different US Trade Deal Than Japan

Troy Stangarone | The Korea Times | 10/09/2025

The Lee Jae Myung administration has put forward clear economic reas...

Beware the “Securitization” of Trade Policy

Simon Lester | International Economic Law and Policy Blog | 10/06/2025

In recent years, U.S. trade policy ...

Congress Must Reclaim Its Constitutional Authority Over Trade

Charles Boustany | The Fulcrum | 09/24/2025

Our Founders deliberately placed the power to “regulate ...

The EU-US Trade Deal, Mob Rule and the Way Forward: Who Holds the Real Trump Cards?

Najibullah Zamani & Henri de Waele | EU Law Live | 09/15/2025

As we know, ‘tar...

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