Experts assess the global position of the United States, current state of U.S. trade policy, and results of globalization on NAFTA. This session was part of CFR's Stephen C. Friedheim Symposium on G…

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As global financial markets face continuing turmoil and the U.S. presidential election progresses, what are the prospects for free trade? In Jagdish Bhagwati's new book, Termites in the Trading Syste…

8:00 to 8:30 AM Breakfast Reception 8:30 to 9:45 AM Session OneCurrency Wars, Capital Controls, and the Outlook for the International Monetary SystemAjay Shah, Professor, National Institute for Publ…

The conventional wisdom about globalization is wrong. When companies, money, people, and ideas went abroad more often than not they went regional. The Globalization Myth details the rise of three …