GB speaks with the world’s leading financial columnist about what happened, where we are, and what may await
GB: What...
Brasilia weighs a possible next move against American IP
Since the dawn of the Marrakesh Agreement establishing the World...
Tags: Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, Biitencourt, Brazil, Dispute Settlement Understanding, DS 267, Global Brief, Intellectual Property Group, IP protection, Marrakesh Agreement, Santos, Siqueira Castro Advogados, trade dispute, Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, TRIPS, US-Brazilian cotton dispute, US-Brazilian dispute, World Trade Organization, WTO
With classical state power plays clearly back en vogue, the collective responsibilities of the new century will be all the...
Tags: Adam Smith, bilateral relationships, BRIC, Charles Emmerson, collective economic and political order, Communism, diplomacy, East-West relations, energy security, Global Brief, global commons, global economic institutions, global market, global system, Global War on Terror, globalization, human history, human political organization, interdependence, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, national state, state-sponsored piracy, strategic cooperation, trade wars, war on drugs, war on poverty, winning states, World Economic Forum, WTO, zero-sum world
The rising continent, and the world at large, await sustained, sophisticated and sincere Asian engagement from Obama
In...
Tags: APEC, ASEAN, Asia Pacific Community, Asian economy, Association of South East Asian Nations, Barron’s Report, East Asian Community, free trade, Global Brief, globalization, John F. Kennedy, Kevin Rudd, President Obama, Simon Tay, undervalued currency, US-ASEAN Summit, US-Asia relations, WTO, Yukio Hatoyama
Thomas Hobbes described life in the state of nature as “nasty, brutish and short.” In contrast, trade rounds at the World...
