Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1 Background and History -- Factors Shaping the Trade Debate -- Free Trade -- Protectionism and Fair Trade -- Trade Surpluses and Deficits -- Trade Patterns -- Trade Politics -- Historical Overview -- American System of High...

Executive summary -- Overview -- The role of US multinationals in the US economy and the evolution of their domestic operations -- Outward FDI by US multinationals: implications for US jobs, exports, and investment -- Globalization of R&D by US multinationals: implications for US prosperity --...

How to build a culture of high performance within your organizationThe U.S. military in general, and its many elite organizations in particular, possesses a culture of high performance. Courage to Executeoutlines the six basic principles that operate at the foundation of high performance, which...

Blazing the Neoliberal Trail asks how and why urban policy and politics have become dominated, over the past three decades, by promarket thinking. Drawing on extensive archival research, Timothy P. R. Weaver shows how elites became persuaded by neoliberal ideas and remade political institutions...

Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Title verso -- Contents -- Table of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Dislcaimer -- List of Acronyms -- Table of Legislation -- Introduction -- Part One: The WTO Negotiation Context -- 1. The WTO's Work Relating to Digitally-Delivered Content Products -- 1.1 WTO...

Intro -- Proving Up -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Thomas Jefferson's Agrarian Vision and the Changing Nature of Property -- 2. The Dialectics of Government Land Policies (1785-1862) -- 3. The Dialectics of Government Land Policies on Arid Land -- 4....

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Global Problems and Localist Solutions -- 2 Economic Development and Localist Knowledge -- 3 Can Localism Be Just and Sustainable? -- 4 The Politics of Local Retailing -- 5 The Challenges of Urban Agriculture -- 6 Local Energy and the...

In The Road to Renewal, R. Richard Geddes surveys the current state of U.S. ground transportation and finds that, like the roads themselves, transportation policy is in desperate need of repair. A shift toward increased use of public-private partnerships (PPPs)-contractual agreements that allow...

This independent assessment is a comprehensive study of the strategic benefits, risks, and costs of U.S. military presence overseas. The report provides policymakers a way to evaluate the range of strategic benefits and costs that follow from revising the U.S. overseas military presence by...

With President Hu Jintao's November 2004 visit to Latin America, China signaled to the rest of the world its growing interest in the region. Many observers welcome this development, highlighting the benefits of increased trade and investment, as well as diplomatic cooperation, for both sides....