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Linking Trade and Security — October 2012
 The latest book to come out of the Berkeley APEC Studies Center is Linking Trade and Security: Evolving Institutions and Strategies in Asia, Europe, and the United States. This collection provides an examination of how the EU and US have used their trade policies to achieve non-economic goals and how these policies have influenced their security environment. Order a copy from Amazon or Barnes & Noble.
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Harvard Business Review Blog: “The Sad Truth Behind Growing Clashes at the WTO” – October 22, 2012
Before the financial crisis ushered in the current global economic downturn, there was a strong intellectual consensus among mainstream economists and policymakers about the merits of free trade. The world had seen the spread of pro-competition principles, binding multilateral trade rules, hundreds of so-called free trade agreements, and literally thousands of bilateral investment treaties. Did all this serve to prevent discriminatory and selective state intervention during the crisis era? The number of trade disputes launched at the WTO this year would suggest no. At the current rate, 2012 will easily see more disputes than in the two previous years combined. Read more »
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ASCC 2011 Report Available For Download – November 21, 2011
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APEC Study Centers Consortium (ASCC) Event – September 22, 2011
The 2011 APEC Study Centers Consortium was held on September 22-23 at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco, California, as part of activities hosted by the United States. The conference was jointly organized by the Berkeley APEC Study Center and the University of California San Diego APEC Study Center on behalf of the US Consortium of APEC Study Centers, directed by Professors Vinod Aggarwal and Richard Feinberg. For more information, please visit the ASCC 2011 website (http://www.ascc2011.org).
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Asian Studies Association (ASA) Report – June 28, 2011
The Berkeley APEC Study Center website is proud to announce the publication of our report on a roundtable at the Asian Studies Association’s annual conference that was held on April 3, 2011, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Click here to download the report in PDF format. Alternatively, click here to view an online version of the report.
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Responding to a Resurgent Russia – December 2011
 We are proud to announce the publication of Responding to a Resurgent Russia: Russian Policy and Responses from the European Union and the United States. You may order your copy from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Following a brief introduction laying out the circumstances of Russia’s rise, this three-section book contains chapters on Russian scholars’ view of how a newly resurgent Russia sees the world, Russia’s role in the contemporary global political economy in terms of trade and financial flows and nuclear energy, and American and European responses to a Resurgent Russia.
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