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GIA/GII Lecture: The Politics of Trade in the Obama Era
(Greater Washington DC Metro Area)
The centuries-old debate about "free trade" versus "protectionism" obscures more than it illuminates about commercial agreements in the early 21st century. The World Trade Organization (WTO) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) contain far-reaching constraints on nations' domestic, non-trade policy space, and have often-unexamined implications for the quality of deliberative democracy.
Todd Tucker, research director, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, has released numerous reports on the WTO, NAFTA, and other trade policies. These reports have been widely cited by media outlets such as The New York Times and The Washington Post.
In this lecture, Tucker will discuss the major themes in his book (to be released later this year), The Rise and Fall of Fast Track Authority, which include the institutional evolution in U.S. procedures that facilitated the insertion of non-trade policies into "trade" agreements.
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