The Brexit fallout continued to unsettle Britain and theEuropean Union on Monday, as another leading credit rating agency slashed the U.K. government’s rating, Britain’s leading parties were consumed by infighting and visiting Secretary of State …
For U.S. exporters already dealing with multiple sets of regulations, duties and tariffs across the globe, the post-Brexit world is a mess that will take years to sort out. In the decades since the European Union was created, American exporters have, w …
A new two-way trade deal between the U.S. and one of its oldest allies could rise from the ashes of the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union and the already-foundering EU-U.S. talks. President Barack Obama reassured the world Friday that …
In light of the U.K.‘s vote to leave the EU, experts from the nonpartisan Stimson Center released the following statements and are available for comment on the implications that the Brexit vote could have on trade — including the Transatlantic Trade an …
By William Reinsch: Last week the British looked the future squarely in the eye — and voted to run away and hide. The victors in the “leave” campaign said June 23rd would go down in history as their Independence Day, completely missing the point that t …
In light of the U.K.’s vote to leave the EU, experts from the nonpartisan Stimson Center released the following statements on the implications that the Brexit vote could have on trade — including the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP …
By William Reinsch: On Sunday, Paul Blustein, a distinguished journalist formerly with the Washington Post, published a piece titled, “Why We Need a Moratorium on Trade Deals Like the TPP.” He makes many good points in it but neverthel …
The Stimson Center announced today the appointment of Eric Miller as a Nonresident Fellow with the Center’s Trade21 initiative. “It’s a distinct privilege to welcome Eric to Stimson,” said Stimson President and CEO Brian Finlay. “Eric brings a t …
By William Reinsch: Michael Schuman had an interesting piece in Bloomberg View last week that deserves some discussion. In brief, he analyzed the decline of manufacturing jobs in the United States, compared the decline to gains in other …
By William Reinsch: These are famous words in Russia — the title of one of Lenin’s most prominent manifestos. Having just been in Russia for the first time last week, I was a bit surprised to see them popping up so frequently in conversation — no …
By William Reinsch: One thing that has become obvious in the presidential campaign is that trade is front and center as an issue. For those of us who have spent our professional careers working on the subject, this ought to be good news. Finally “our” …
By William Reinsch: Like just about everybody else in the presidential campaign, with the notable and courageous exception of John Kasich, Hillary Clinton has come out against the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement and has also tou …
By William Reinsch: Now that Donald Trump appears nearly certain to be the Republican nominee for president, you can expect a lot more attention being paid to the details of what he really thinks about the important issues of the day. Polling sug …
STIMSON WELCOMES REINSCH: Former National Foreign Trade Council President Bill Reinsch has joined the Stimson Center as a distinguished fellow, the center announced Monday. Reinsch will participate in the nonpartisan think tank’s Trade in the 21st …
William A. Reinsch has joined the Stimson Center as a Distinguished Fellow, the Stimson Center announced today. Reinsch joins Stimson’s new Trade in the 21st Century initiative (Trade21), led by Nate Olson. Trade21 promotes a public interest agenda by …
Trade network transparency entails two dimensions of global commerce: business relationships and chain of custody. Historically, most security programs, including those focused on nonproliferation, have focused on ensuring a proper chain of custody – t …
By Nate Olson: It is a bitter irony that globalization has actually made much of trade and investment activity less transparent. The scale and technological sophistication of global value chains, along with their reach across multiple legal juris …
THE NEGLECTED CYBER ANGLE ON THE CHINA DEAL -snip- Much of the attention on last week’s cyber deal with China has focused on whether that agreement will actually curtail Chinese economic espionage; while that’s important, the Stimson Center’s Nate Olso …
The twists and turns on the path to the final deal on Iran’s nuclear program might pale in comparison to those yet to come. Here’s a kicker: Delivering on one of the deal’s most important commitments will depend on a party that was never at the negotia …
Key developments in economic sanctions regimes over the last 18 months – spanning Cuba, Russia/Ukraine, and Iran, to cyber and beyond – have had a wide-ranging impact on businesses, and continue to raise a host of challenges for officials and …
The Trade Security Steering Group – an informal group of trade specialists organized by the StimsonCenter and the National Association of Manufacturers – supports a range of public – private initiatives to more effectively mitigate international securi …
Governments increasingly see an opportunity — and an imperative — to advance national security and economic competitiveness as complementary goals. In its new National Security Strategy, the Obama administration pledges to “make it easier for businesse …
Governments increasingly see an opportunity — and an imperative — to advance national security and economic competitiveness as complementary goals. In its new National Security Strategy, the Obama administration pledges to “make it easier for businesse …
Published February 19, 2015 / Held February 19, 2015
In May 2014, Stimson’s Partners in Prevention Task Force endorsed seven proposals to close security gaps in global trade by better leveraging market incentives. Directed mainly at US policy and industry stakeholders, the recommendations were the result …
Amid the diplomatic breakthrough at the Security Council and arrival of the United Nations chemical weapons inspection team in Damascus, many observers have lost sight of two key questions about Syria: How did the regime get its chemical weapons, and h …