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In 2012, we published a paper in the Journal of Critical Globalization Studies titled 'Imperialism and Financialism: The Story of a Nexus'. Our topic was the chameleon-like Marxist notion of imperialism and how its different theories related to finance. Here is the article's summary: Over the...
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Brazilian foreign policy between 2000 and 2014 is presented, particularly considering the strategies of Brazil's diplomatic … relationship between foreign policy and trade flows. In this sense, it is important to point out that no assertion is made in the … sense that foreign policy has determined the behavior of trade flows between the two countries, since during the period …
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China and the U.S. have a close but complicated economic relationship. This note provides a fuller picture of the tightening embrace between the two countries – in terms of flows of goods and services, financial capital and people – and discusses the potential flashpoints in this...
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This survey reviews the history of trade and investment between Cuba and the US. Aside from the embargo years, US trade and investment have been critical for Cuba. Short of protection for US sugar beet farmers, Cuba would have become a state of the US following the Spanish American War. Lifting...
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that violated the transnational law of torture and longstanding U.S. policy. With a focus on recent scholarly work by Paul …
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Does increasing economic globalization influence aggregate policy mood toward the role and size of government in the … a liberal (conservative) shift in policy preferences for more (less) government. It distinguishes between intrafirm and … non-intrafirm trade flows. It measures policy mood using Stimson's ‘Mood', and estimate Error Correction and Instrumental …
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International trade directly influences US presidential elections. We explore the electoral implications of the increasing tradability of services and the large US surplus in services trade. Our paper builds on prior work showing that job insecurity from import competition in manufacturing...
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The Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), established by the Dodd-Frank Act, has the extraordinary authority to designate financial firms as systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs). Firms so designated are then turned over to the Fed for “stringent” regulation. FSOC's...
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The macroeconomic implications the Single Market is likely to have for the rest of the world, in particular the United States and Japan, are considered in this essay. Trade diversion will be an unavoidable result of Europe 1992 but that the patterns of the EC's external trade and financial flows...
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For over three decades U.S. Coast Guard leaders have struggled to address the strategic risk to the nation created by the exhaustively-studied yet still unresolved U.S. “icebreaker deficit.” This article examines the current state of the U.S. Coast Guard's icebreaking fleet and recent...
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