Helping Ourselves: Local Solutions to Global Problems

Business & Money

Stokes, Bruce

Economics

W.W.Norton&Company

America's leading nonpartisan pollster shows how we are different--and how our exceptionalism feeds the rise in anti-Americanism The precipitous rise in anti-Americanism is startling. To understand why the world has turned against the United States, the Pew Research Center, under the leadership of Andrew Kohut, has undertaken an unprecedented survey of world opinion--more than 91,000 respondents in fifty nations. In America Against the World, Kohut and Bruce Stokes unveil the sobering and surprising findings. America's image is at a low ebb: where once it was considered the champion of democracy, America is now seen as a self-absorbed, militant hyperpower. More than 70 percent of non-Americans say that the world would be improved if America faced a rival military power, and about half the citizens of Lebanon, Jordan, and Morocco think that suicide attacks on Americans in Iraq are justified. Where does this anti-Americanism come from? Kohut and Stokes find that what pushed the world away is American exceptionalism--our individualism and our go-it-alone attitude. And it doesn't help that Americans' pervasive religiosity and deep patriotism are often exaggerated by America's critics. Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright argues in her foreword that we cannot stop the spread of anti-Americanism without truly understanding who we are. America Against the World provides the insight to take that step.

America Against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked

Politics & Social Sciences

Kohut, Andrew

Social Sciences

Times Books

History

Americas

St. Martin's: Griffin

According to the authors, challenges resulting from the globalization of production and the integration of former socialist economies into the world market economy create the need for new trade negotiations at both the regional and global level. Government policies and regulations that constitute barriers to foreign trade and investment still need to be overcome. Anticompetitive practices such as trade-restricting cartels need to be eliminated. Philosophical and political differences over how trade agreements should deal with issues such as labor and the environment need to be resolved.The book provides a comprehensive review of the issues confronting U.S. trade policymakers and outlines a strategy to deal with them. The book is essential reading for public officials, business leaders and private citizens who wish to think broadly about American's role in the global economy of the 21st century.

Trade Strategies for a New Era: Ensuring U.S. Leadership in a Global Economy

Council on Foreign Relations

Congressional failure to approve fast-track trade negotiating authority last year and the mounting trade-related problems created by the East Asian financial crisis confront the president and the American people with critical strategic trade policy choices.Four experts provide contrasting points of view and different solutions as the administration attempts to fashion a U.S. trade strategy for the 21st century. As they see it, the choices facing the president include: work to rebuild public support from trade and press ahead for trade liberalization at home and abroad; help Americans understand that globalization is a boon both to the U.S. economy and to the freedom of people everywhere; slow the rush toward trade liberalization and concentrate instead on more effective worker-training programs and labor and environmental rights; or encourage Congress to take more responsibility for trade policy.This volume, the second in the CPI series, lays out these choices in detail through four memos written by prominent experts: C. Fred Bergsten, William A. Niskanen, Jeff Faux, and Pat Choate. The memos are preceded by a memorandum to the president from the "National Economic Council" that explains the strengths, weaknesses, and politics surrounding each alternative.

Future Visions for U.S. Trade Policy

International

The lack of political and public consensus over American trade policy plagues efforts to further liberalize trade and spur economic growth. To develop a trade policy with widespread support, the Council on Foreign Relations assembled a group of representatives with diverse interests and points of view and produced this paper. It examines the important issues of reform in presidential trade-negotiating authority, the way Congress organizes itself to deal with trade, the relationship between the governmen t's trade and regulatory agencies, the public advisory system used by the executive branch and the oprerations of the World Trade Organization.

Democratizing U.S. Trade Policy (Council on Foreign Relations (Council on Foreign Relations Press))

Choate, Pat

Council on Foreign Relations Press

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