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With trade tensions increasingly politicized, a key appeals process suspended and COVID-19 creating huge economic challenges, a modernized and fully functioning WTO is more essential than ever. This paper makes the case for transatlantic cooperation as a necessary, though insufficient alone, condition for WTO reform.

The US, EU, and UK should focus on their set of bilateral trade negotiations, address shared concerns regarding the global trade system, and remove underlying trade tensions among themselves.

Although they haven’t even started yet, United States-European Union trade talks already face major obstacles. Moving forward is critical to end the ‘tug of war’ between the US and EU. The best way to get there is to take a multifaceted approach aimed at both the transatlantic market and the global trading system.

This paper recommends a framework for strengthening US–EU trade relations and achieving successful trade talks in the current era of protectionism. 

This piece recommends a framework for strengthening US-EU trade relations and achieving successful trade talks in the current era of protectionism.

The champions of global trade are inadvertently taking steps that undermine the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

With no end in sight for the trade tensions between the US and China, efforts to advance the circular economy in both economies are seemingly under threat.

United States trade representative Robert E Lighthizer provides his outlook on the future of international trading systems in a COVID-19 world.

A new approach for the US to strengthen economic and strategic ties in the region, advance strong rules for new trade issues, and tackle China’s trade policies.

With Germany and Japan next in line for leading the G7, these two champions of global trade should continue to carry the baton of a separate trade track.

As the evolution of climate policy sees carbon-neutral targets and climate taxes going more mainstream, the trade regime is being put under increasing pressure.

trade, finance and industrial cooperation. For its part, Wang Yi emphasized the trade benefits of the relationship

The US clearly wants to lead in providing global public goods and upholding liberal values but making America prosperous remains an absolute requirement.

trade. How the US and China resolve – or at least manage – their trade

Examining key US foreign policy plans for climate, trade, security, and the Middle East, and the importance of strengthening global relationships and democracy.

trade, anti-immigrant, anti-NATO rhetoric are clear evidence that an appeal to ‘us against

trade tensions (which will be alleviated in the near-term by the phase one trade

Trade Agreement (NAFTA), enforcing US trade laws to address harmful trade practices, imposing steel and aluminum

trading partner for more than two-thirds of the world’s countries. Unlike the US-Soviet

trade balance is badly misplaced for a whole slew of reasons, including the fact that

Joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) will set or renew the UK’s trade terms with 11 trading partners in just one negotiation, but its significance goes beyond strict trade interests.

Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and in 2019 threatened the government of Andrés López Obrador

Though it is under political pressure, there are reasons to be hopeful about the World Trade Organization’s future.

The current dispute between the US and China goes far beyond trade tariffs and tit-for-tat reprisals: the underlying driver is a race for global technological supremacy. This paper examines the risks of greater strategic competition as well as potential solutions for mitigating the impacts of the US–China economic confrontation.

The demand will be there, but a range of barriers are likely to limit growth in agricultural trade links between the UK and Latin America.

Examining the post-election landscape of the US and analysing how the president-elect should tackle major policy on immigration, trade, and the Middle East.

The growth of Chinese wealth and military power, combined with a more diplomatically and militarily active regime in Beijing, represents an epochal change in international politics.

Many middle powers have been warning of the dangers inherent in the decline of the liberal international order. The time has come for these countries to translate their warnings into concerted action.

Chatham House experts examine some of the fault lines in the relationship between the US, the UK and Europe as the US president comes to London.

The Cuban autocracy remains a nagging reminder of United States impotence in rooting out Communism.

The first few gatherings of the G20, at the height of the global financial crisis, yielded concrete results, and seemed to promise an auspicious future for global governance. But in the years since, the group has increasingly replaced action with empty talk.

As necessary as it remains to improve rules-based systems, the future of international order will also rely on states engaging more creatively with a wider range of constituencies – from citizens and civil society to the private sector and local political actors.

Brussels will find its much-vaunted heft in setting standards cannot help it advance its geopolitical interests, argues Alan Beattie.

Debates and caucuses are proving that the party took the wrong lesson from the midterms. They're now applying that lesson to 2020 with potentially disastrous results.

Managing relations with China once the COVID-19 crisis abates will be one of the biggest challenges facing political leaders in the United States and Europe – two of the areas worst-hit by the virus that originated in China.

COVID-19 exposes the fragility of global supply chains, leaving companies and policymakers to reconsider a decades-long focus on efficiency and reducing costs by operating on a ‘just in time’ basis.

Experts on both sides of the Atlantic give their perspectives on whether the pandemic has changed national understandings, narratives, and foreign policy debates on China.

Speakers discuss the evolution of US strategy, and how potential shifts could influence future scenarios in Somalia, with implications for federalism, and resolution of the conflict with al-Shabaab.

Panellists discuss the future role of democracy and human rights in America’s foreign policy.

This discussion considers how philosophically aligned the EU and the US currently are, and how important this alignment is in ensuring a fruitful relationship.

Tony Blinken discusses the impact of COVID-19 and the 2020 US presidential elections on America’s global role.

Examining the impact of COVID-19 on US domestic priorities and foreign policy commitments.

With Robert Zoellick, former president of the World Bank Group.

Exploring the challenges Venezuela currently faces in rebuilding its energy sector.

As part of the launch of Chatham House’s centenary celebrations for 2020, US Secretary of the Treasury Steven T Mnuchin reflects on the future of the global order.

This paper summarizes the US mission in Somalia, analyses how it is being implemented, and assesses whether US policy in Somalia is working. It also outlines three scenarios for future US engagement.

The identity of the next US president is yet to be determined, but the foreign policy views of the American public are already clear. In principle, Americans support US engagement in the world but, in practice, they worry other countries take advantage of the United States.

A ‘diplomatic romance’ between old friends ultimately reflects a convergence of interests – Canada and the UK have good reasons to gravitate towards each other.