Renaissance for U.S. Trade Policy? The Bush administration’s recent protectionist measure has attracted intense international criticism. U.S. backtracking on free trade could give other countries an excuse to do likewise. But critics should note that those measures also made in easier for Bush to win “fast-track” negotiating authority from Congress, providing the political base necessary for further liberalization

Humanitarianism in Crisis Humanitarian organization have moved to incorporate human rights and development their increasingly politicized agendas. yet in the process, they have abandoned the neutrality and independence that were the original hallmarks of the movement. Few seen to notice what is being lost

Can Burma Reform? Myanmar, the country formerly known as Burma, faces a burgeoning economic disaster a looming HIV/AIDS epidemic. In responding to these crises, the United States and its allies should employ both the promise of aid and the promise of aid and the threat of sanctions to prod the country’s military rulers toward democracy