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Deep Dish: What a World Without US Leadership Looks Like

John Cookson's blog Council President Ivo Daalder and James M. Lindsay, senior vice president at the Council on Foreign Relations, discuss their new book "The Empty Throne: America's Abdication of Global Leadership"—a revealing look at ...

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This Week's Reads: Are Americans Isolationists at Heart?

John Cookson's blog rts228jn.jpg rts228jn.jpg   The conventional wisdom in Washington is that Americans, preferring to stay out of world affairs, are isolationists at heart. But the conventional wisdom is wrong, as James M. Lindsay and I explain in a ...

External Commentary
Democrats Face Tough Choices on NAFTA

https://www.forbes.com/sites/phillevy/2018/11/10/democrats-face-tough-choices-on... November 10, 2018 ForbesGlobal Economy, North AmericaGlobal EconomyNorth America ...

Publications
The Fate of the World Trade Organization in the Age of Trump

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is teetering. The Trump Administration has attacked it repeatedly, blocked moves to restock its judicial panels, and looked skeptically on its multilateral decision-making process. For an organization that embodied the r ...

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Happy Birthday Illinois

mh_reagan-gorbachev_700x365.jpg Iain Whitaker's blog mh_reagan-gorbachev_700x365.jpg   On December 3, 2018, Illinois turns 200. It’s a significant milestone and one that generated a short but robust debate within the Council’s Programs team over whet ...

Events
America First Meets Mexico First?

On December 1, Andrés Manuel López Obrador was sworn in as Mexico’s president, beginning a new era in relations between the United States and its southern neighbor. The two nations share a complex set of overlapping interests on trade, security, and immig ...