International economic relations Archives

International economic relations

The New China Syndrome

American business meets its new master

Against Human Rights

From The Twilight of Human Rights Law, by Eric A. Posner, out next month from Oxford University Press. Posner is a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Amarildo…

A Very Perfect Instrument

by Andrew Cockburn,

The ferocity and failure of America’s sanctions apparatus

Toward Reglobalization

by Jeff Madrick,

It’s rare, in economics as in life, to get a second chance. Though economists are constantly learning lessons from past mistakes, seldom are there obvious opportunities to apply them. The…

The Scarlet Debtor

by Jeff Madrick,

Debt forgiveness is one of the most important innovations of modern capitalism, but it is a fairly recent one. Though the Constitution gives Congress explicit authority to enact “uniform Laws…