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December 19, 2024

Economics
Future of Tariffs and Trade

 Brad W. Setser, CFR’s Whitney Shepardson senior fellow, leads the conversation on the influence of tariffs on global trade and the price of U.S. goods, and what to expect from the second Trump admin…

Play Cars in a lot

December 12, 2024

Latin America
Mercosur: South America’s Fractious Trade Bloc

Three decades after its founding, Latin America’s largest trade bloc continues to seek new global agreements. The recent conclusion of a deal with the European Union could help, but it faces roadbloc…

A truck driver waits to unload his cargo of cereal grain at a rail terminal in Brazil.

December 18, 2024

RealEcon
Trump Will Be His Own Trade Czar

Expect chaos as an unpredictable president uses trade threats to pursue whatever unrelated issue he wishes.

An employee works on photovoltaic modules destined for export at a factory in Sihong, China, on Sept. 3.

December 6, 2024

Syria
What Role Is Turkey Playing in Syria’s Civil War?

Turkey opposes the Assad regime, but the fall of the government could disrupt Ankara’s aims to reverse refugee flows and defeat Kurdish forces in Syria’s north.

Anti-government fighters ride in the back of a truck in Suran, between Aleppo and Hama, Syria, on December 3, 2024.

December 3, 2024

Lebanon
What’s Happening in Lebanon? A Guide to the War-Torn Democracy

An array of domestic and foreign powers are vying for influence in Lebanon, including the Lebanese Armed Forces, Hezbollah, Israel, Iran, Syria, and the United States.

A boy stands inside his damaged house in Tyre, Lebanon, in November 2024.

December 5, 2024

Syria
What Syria’s Revived Civil War Means for the Region

The surprise rebel offensive that has seized Aleppo and threatens other regime-held territories could mark a further weakening of Iran's regional sway but also spur a new cycle of violence and instab…

Armed men walk in the shade inside a courtyard of a white brick building dotted with patches of grass and rotundas.

December 11, 2024

RealEcon
The Future of Trade in an Era of Disruption

Edward Alden’s speech on October 28, 2024, at the Yeutter Institute for International Trade and Finance at the University of Nebraska provides parameters and principles for future trade policy.

Edward Alden speaks at the Yeutter Symposium

December 3, 2024

Israel
Assessing a Year of War in the Middle East

A year after Hamas’s devastating October 7 attack, Israel faces a seven-front war and deepening divisions between its military and Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. Meanwhile, the humanitarian crisis …

A Palestinian man looks out of his heavily damaged house at neighbouring houses which witnesses said were destroyed during the Israeli offensive, in the east of the Gaza strip.

December 19, 2024

World Trade Organization (WTO)
Soaring Abuse of “National Security” Exceptions Has Wrecked the Multilateral Trading System

Since 2019, there has been a massive surge in “National Security” notifications at the WTO. Many of these are covers for rank protectionism.

Soaring Abuse of “National Security” Exceptions Has Wrecked the Multilateral Trading System

December 16, 2024

RealEcon
Repealing the IRA Has Trade-offs, Tweaking It Has Advantages

With over a third of the Inflation Reduction Act’s funding set to expire by the end of Donald Trump’s next term, Congress should prioritize the legislation’s most impactful initiatives: manufacturing…

A worker builds a crate for solar panels at First Solar in Perrysburg, Ohio July 8, 2022.