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NEW PUBLICATION!

Global Economic Governance:
Beyond Management by the United States and the European Union

Business and Politics, Volume 11, Issue 3 (2009), Berkeley Electronic Press

CTR and the BMW Foundation host the Transatlantic Economic Dialogue, an annual transatlantic economic conference together with the University of Warwick's Garnet Network of Excellence on Global Governance. The fall 2009 issue of Business and Politics, published by Berkeley Electronic Press, is a special edition featuring papers produced for the annual Transatlantic Economic Dialogue, centered on the theme of global economic governance. In particular, these articles consider the role of the transatlantic powers in shaping international economic governance, and how that role may be changing.

  • Jeffrey Schott analyzes the current problems of the global trade regime in historical context.
  • Vinod Aggarwal focuses on the historical development of U.S. trade policy and argues that the shift toward piecemeal liberalization has undermined prospects for trade liberalization. 
  • Rolf Langhammer examines proposals for a possible transatlantic free trade agreement and criticizes the discriminatory dimension of such agreements.
  • Simon Evenett explores competing hypotheses about the motivation of states in implementing protectionist policies. 
  • Richard Higgott discusses systemic issues within the world trading system and scrutinizes the WTO's role as guardian of norms and rules for global trade. 
  • Heribert Dieter discusses the decline of global economic governance, both in trade and in finance.

Events

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Tuesday September 14
European Studies Lecture Series - "EU Foreign Policy-Making After Lisbon" with Sergio Fabbrini, Professor of Political Science, University of Trento, Italy and
Recurring Visiting Professor, Comparative and International Politics, University of California, Berkeley

Thursday September 16
"Closing the Gender Gap: Global Perspectives on Women in the Boardroom"  all-day conference 

Tuesday September 21
European Studies Lecture Series - "U.S. and EU Public Opinion:  Issues and Implications" with Bruce Stokes, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, The German Marshall Fund, Washington and Contributing Editor at the National Journal

Wednesday September 22
Transatlantic Leaders Forum - "Europe, the Abating Crisis, Its Systemic Consequences and the Need to Re-Formulate the Case for Capitalism" with Václav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic

Tuesday October 5
European Studies Lecture Series - The Euro's First Real Crisis and What it Means for the Transatlantic Relationship panel discussion with: Randall Henning, Professor, School of International Service, American University; Matthias Matthijs, Assistant Professor, American University and Professorial Lecturer, Johns Hopkins SAIS; and Kathleen McNamara, Associate Professor of Government, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Tuesday October 19
European Studies Lecture Series - "Busy on Various Fronts:  Angela Merkel, her Coalition of the Unwilling, and the Fight for the German Economic Model" with Markus Ziener, Director of the Washington Office of Handelsblatt, Germany’s largest daily business newspaper

Tuesday November 16
European Studies Lecture Series - "Values, Allies, and Strategy:  Changes in Transatlantic Relations?" with Kurt Volker, Managing Director and Senior Fellow
at the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations and former U.S. Ambassador to NATO

Tuesday November 30
European Studies Lecture Series - "The Rise of Asia:  What it Means for Europe" panel discussion with Visiting Scholars at the German Marshall Fund’s Transatlantic Academy including Hanns Maull, Professor and Chair of Foreign Policy and International Relations, Department of Political Science and History, University of Trier; Giovanni Andornino, Research Fellow, University of Turin and Iskander Rehman, Ph.D. candidate, Institute of Political Sciences (Sciences Po), Paris