Trade issues have mobilized civil society groups throughout the Americas, causing disputes within governments and ruling coalitions. Because trade-related reforms take place in the context of economic dislocations throughout the region, they have generated unprecedented debate over winners and losers in the process of globalization. The Program’s trade initiative has explored the politics of free trade agreements in the United States as well as in Latin America, aiming to deepen the understanding of the distributional impacts of free trade and related public policies to enhance the positive impacts of trade liberalization.more less