Commentaries on International Political

Sidney Weintraub holds the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at CSIS and is director of the CSIS Americas Program. He is also professor emeritus at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.

Preface

vii

PART I. TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT

1

(53)

Trade Policy after Seattle

7

(3)

The Labor-Trade Link

10

(3)

NAFTA Evaluation

13

(4)

Telling It Like It Is

17

(4)

Behind the Trade Issues Facing President Bush

21

(4)

Trade Policy Suggestions for the Quebec Summit

25

(4)

The U.S. Congress and Trade Policy: Give Me a Break

29

(4)

A Needless Trade War

33

(4)

The Elusive Option to Open Markets

37

(4)

History Repeats Itself in Trade Policy

41

(4)

Lack of Clarity in U.S. Trade Policy

45

(4)

Trade Negotiation Prospects: Global and Hemispheric

49

(5)

PART II. ECONOMIC POLICY

54

(38)

The Dollarization Debate

57

(4)

The Role of the Leading International Economic Organizations

61

(3)

Critical Aspects of the Global Economy

64

(4)

Some Highlights in the Global Economy in 2000

68

(4)

Ideological Generalizations about Financial Rescue Packages

72

(4)

The Terrorist Attack: Treating the Causes

76

(4)

Reviving the U.S. Economy

80

(4)

The Primacy of Policy

84

(4)

The Importance of the Everyday Routine

88

(4)

PART III. POLICY AMBIGUITY: MIGRATION AND SANCTIONS

92

(21)

Clashing Pressures on Immigration

95

(3)

Massachusetts' Secondary Boycotts against Burma

98

(3)

The Conundrum of Undocumented Immigration

101

(4)

Sanctions: When They Don't Work, Keep Doing the Same

105

(4)

Migration: Making Policy in the Face of Profound Disagreement

109

(4)

PART IV. DEMOCRACY AND SOVEREIGNTY

113

(13)

Cheapening the Sovereignty Argument

115

(4)

Democracy and Markets

119

(3)

Democracy and Development

122

(4)

PART V. INTER-AMERICAN RELATIONS

126

(79)

Brazil-U.S. Economic Relations

129

(4)

The U.S.-Chile Connection

133

(4)

The Ever-Changing U.S.-Mexico Relationship

137

(4)

Rejecting the Lessons of Experience

141

(4)

Mexico: Latin America's Uncertain Bright Spot

145

(4)

Uncertainty in Venezuela

149

(4)

The Brazil-U.S. Relationship: A Tale of Mutual Ignorance

153

(4)

The United States and Latin America: Mutual Disappointments

157

(4)

Chile as a Template

161

(4)

FTAA Prospects

165

(4)

Latin America's Herd Behavior

169

(4)

Mexico: The Cost of Outdated Nationalism

173

(4)

President Lula's Uncertain Path

177

(4)

Strains in the Canada-U.S. Relationship

181

(4)

U.S.-Latin American Attitudes: Mistrust and Indifference

185

(4)

Kirchner and Argentina

189

(4)

The Cost of Divisions within Latin America

193

(4)

Peru's Perennial Problems Pop Up Again

197

(4)

Latin America at Year-end 2003

201

(4)

Index

205

(11)

About the Author

216

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