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Making Trade Inclusive: A Conversation on Foreign Policy for the Middle Class
Overview
The United States is currently rethinking its relationship with globalization. In response to widespread voter frustrations, a growing number of economists, lawyers, and policymakers now call for more inclusive, more sustainable trade policies. These policies aim to reduce trade’s uneven impacts on workers and the environment, but will they be seen as protectionist by U.S. trading partners?
New survey evidence collected by the Wilson Center shows robust demand for inclusive reforms among average Americans. However, important questions remain. Not least, how do we implement these reforms?
Join us virtually or in-person for a conversation about the Biden administration’s “Foreign policy for the middle class” agenda. Elizabeth Baltzan, Senior Advisor to the United States Trade Representative, will provide an overview of current White House priorities and efforts. Her comments will be followed by a panel of experts discussing the legal, environmental, and labor issues associated with trade policy reform in the United States and what this may mean for U.S. international economic relations and global leadership.
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Speaker
Elizabeth Baltzan
Introduction
Panelists
Kathleen Claussen
Gregory Shaffer
Todd Tucker
Hosted By
Canada Institute
Bound by common geopolitical interests and strong economic and cultural ties, Canada and the United States enjoy the world's most successful bilateral relationship. The Wilson Center's Canada Institute is the only public policy forum in the world dedicated to the full spectrum of Canada-U.S. issues. The Canada Institute is a global leader for policymakers, academics and business leaders to engage in non-partisan, informed dialogue about the current and future state of the relationship. Read more
Asia Program
The Asia Program promotes policy debate and intellectual discussions on U.S. interests in the Asia-Pacific as well as political, economic, security, and social issues relating to the world’s most populous and economically dynamic region. Read more
Global Europe Program
The Global Europe Program addresses vital issues affecting the European continent, U.S.-European relations, and Europe’s ties with the rest of the world. We investigate European approaches to critical global issues: digital transformation, climate, migration, global governance. We also examine Europe’s relations with Russia and Eurasia, China and the Indo-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. Our program activities cover a wide range of topics, from the role of NATO, the European Union and the OSCE to European energy security, trade disputes, challenges to democracy, and counter-terrorism. The Global Europe Program’s staff, scholars-in-residence, and Global Fellows participate in seminars, policy study groups, and international conferences to provide analytical recommendations to policy makers and the media. Read more
Latin American Program
The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin American Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action. Read more
Mexico Institute
The Mexico Institute seeks to improve understanding, communication, and cooperation between Mexico and the United States by promoting original research, encouraging public discussion, and proposing policy options for enhancing the bilateral relationship. A binational Advisory Board, chaired by Luis Téllez and Earl Anthony Wayne, oversees the work of the Mexico Institute. Read more
Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition
The Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition works to shape conversations and inspire meaningful action to strengthen technology, trade, infrastructure, and energy as part of American economic and global leadership that benefits the nation and the world. Read more
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