At a time when Washington’s approach to trade seems poised to undergo a significant shift, this magisterial book surveys the entire history of U.S. trade policy since the Colonial era, using ...

Panelists talked about the history of U.S. trade policy and discussed ways to approach current foreign trade. The National History Center in Washington, D.C. hosted this event.

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Since his first term in 2017, President Donald Trump’s trade policy has had two dimensions: one familiar, one unfamiliar. The ...

Ten CFR experts break down what the president's trade agenda has accomplished since he placed a ninety-day pause on his ...

Joseph J. Thorndike: Well, back to Douglas Irwin, he's identified three principle objectives for trade policy and three corresponding eras in U.S. trade history, and he calls them "the three R's ...

Copeland’s valuable book is both a history of the key moments in American foreign trade policy and a theoretical study of what he terms “dynamic realism,” the middle ground between so-called offensive ...

Foreign Policy illustration/iStock and Getty Images Trump Has the Whole Global Trade System in His Sights The U.S. president’s ambitions for “reciprocity” aren’t limited to China, Bob ...

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Robert Zoellick during a press conference at the World Bank office on September 5, 2011 in Beijing, China. (VCG/VCG via Getty Images) In his new book, "America in the World: A History of U.S ...

By the dismal standards of 2020, Robert B. Zoellick’s “America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy” is a significant achievement. The volume may even be a bit of a ...

In his new book “America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy,” Robert Zoellick lays out five traditions of America’s relations with the world.