Trumponomics: Can He Move Beyond Bluster to a Competitiveness Policy? (Edward Alden, Council on Foreign Relations)

http://blogs.cfr.org/renewing-america/2016/12/12/trumponomics-can-he-move-beyond-bluster-to-a-competitiveness-policy/

Failure to Adjust: How Americans Got Left Behind in the Global Economy (Edward Alden, Council on Foreign Relations)

http://blogs.cfr.org/renewing-america/2016/11/02/failure-to-adjust-how-americans-got-left-behind-in-the-global-economy/

A Winning Trade Policy for the United States (Edward Alden, CFR)

The Renewing America initiative is releasing today a new paper entitled, “A Winning Trade Policy for the United States,” co-authored by myself and CFR adjunct senior fellow Robert Litan. The paper is the first of two that will look at new directions for U.S. trade policy at a time when American support for the global trading system is under challenge as rarely seen before.

http://blogs.cfr.org/renewing-america/2016/09/27/a-winning-trade-policy-for-the-united-states/

Finding a TPP Alternative is Becoming a Priority (Edward Alden, CFR)

http://blogs.cfr.org/renewing-america/2016/08/04/finding-a-tpp-alternative-is-becoming-a-priority/

GOP Has Abdicated Leadership on Homeland Security (Edward Alden, CFR)

“Homeland Security” was an idea largely conceived and implemented by the Republican Party. But at the opening night of the Republican convention in Cleveland, built around the theme of “Make America Safe Again,” it was depressingly clear that the GOP has forgotten everything that it learned during the years following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. That memory loss could have serious and damaging consequences for the United States.

http://blogs.cfr.org/renewing-america/2016/07/19/gop-has-abdicated-leadership-on-homeland-security/

From Brexit to Trump, it’s been a testing year for globalization. But it’s not too late to save it (Edward Alden, WEF)

The rich world today is witnessing the rumblings of what could become a full-scale backlash against globalization. Britain’s vote to exit the European Union was the biggest shock, but not far behind are Donald Trump’s pending nomination as the Republican candidate for US president and the growing strength of far-right populist parties in Europe. What they have in common is a popular – if not necessarily majority – conviction that trade, immigration and other aspects of global integration have been mismanaged by the governments and corporate leaders that were supposed to lead the way to broadly-shared prosperity.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/07/from-brexit-to-trump-it-s-been-a-testing-year-for-globalization-but-it-s-not-too-late-to-save-it

Donald Trump’s Trade-Talk Trickery (Edward Alden, CFR)

http://blogs.cfr.org/renewing-america/2016/07/05/donald-trumps-trade-talk-trickery/

What Brexit Reveals About Rising Populism (Edward Alden, CFR)

http://www.cfr.org/united-kingdom/brexit-reveals-rising-populism/p38102

Jeff Immelt of GE Gives The Most Important Foreign Policy Speech of the Year (Edward Alden, CFR)

The most important foreign policy speech of the year so far was delivered not by any of the presidential candidates, nor by any of their advisors, nor by President Obama or his officials. It was given last week by the chief executive of General Electric, Jeff Immelt, who may be the most influential American CEO of his generation. And the message, to graduating students at NYU’s Stern Business School, was stark: if America is turning against the global economy, business will have to follow

http://blogs.cfr.org/renewing-america/2016/05/24/jeff-immelt-of-ge-gives-the-most-important-foreign-policy-speech-of-the-year/

What the Trade and Minimum Wage Debates Have in Common (Edward Alden, CFR)

The election-year debates over trade and the minimum wage would appear to have little to do with each other. The growing concern over trade, on the one hand, has focused mostly on the impact of global competition on U.S. manufacturing, sectors in which most employees make far more than the minimum wage. The historic move by California and New York this week to raise their minimum wages to $15, on the other hand, will mostly boost pay for restaurant and retail workers – sectors that do not face international competition.

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Free trade at risk in this year’s US campaign (Edward Alden, CFR)

A video posted on YouTube last month captured everything that working-class Americans fear about global trade. In the footage from a cellphone camera, an executive from Carrier, a division of United Technologies, addresses agitated employees at the company’s Indiana plant, which employs 1,400 people making furnaces and other heating equipment.

http://blogs.cfr.org/renewing-america/2016/03/28/free-trade-at-risk-in-this-years-us-campaign/

Book. How America Stacks Up (Edward Alden, Rebecca Strauss, CFR)

In his recent State of the Union address, President Barack Obama said, "Anyone claiming that America's economy is in decline is peddling fiction." Some of Obama's critics have countered that the United States' standing in the world is slipping and that the country is losing out to rivals like China. So how does the United States actually measure up?

A new book from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), How America Stacks Up: Economic Competitiveness and U.S. Policy, examines how the United States has responded to global economic competition and benchmarks the United States against other advanced economies. The book is an invaluable resource in the 2016 presidential election cycle for assessing the Obama administration's economic legacy and debating priorities for the next administration.

Clear infographic charts rate the United States against its competitors in eight areas: education, transportation, trade and investment, debt and deficits, worker retraining, corporate taxes, regulation, and innovation.

Authors Edward Alden, CFR's Bernard L. Schwartz senior fellow, and Rebecca Strauss, Renewing America publications associate director, find that while the United States has lost ground in some areas, such as high school and college completion and financing transportation infrastructure, the country is well ahead of other advanced economies in other areas such as technology innovation.

India’s Landmark WTO Challenge to the United States (Edward Alden, CFR)

In the midst of a xenophobic U.S. presidential campaign in which candidates in both parties have harangued China and Japan over their trade policies, and leading Republicans have called for a “great wall” to keep out immigrants from Mexico and Central America, one country has quietly refused to take it any longer.

http://blogs.cfr.org/renewing-america/2016/03/15/indias-landmark-wto-challenge-to-the-united-states/

Visa Overstays: A Footnote on What Congress Can Do (Edward Alden, CFR)

http://blogs.cfr.org/renewing-america/2016/01/21/visa-overstays-a-footnote-on-what-congress-can-do/

Visa Overstays and Illegal Immigration: Finally, Some Real Numbers (Edward Alden, CFR)

http://blogs.cfr.org/renewing-america/2016/01/20/visa-overstays-and-illegal-immigration-finally-some-real-numbers/

The Keystone Pipeline May be Dead, But Here’s How it Could Blow up the TPP (Edward Alden, CFR)

http://blogs.cfr.org/renewing-america/2016/01/07/the-keystone-pipeline-may-be-dead-but-heres-how-it-could-blow-up-the-tpp/

The TPP Agreement: Big Things Are Still Possible (Council on Foreign Relations)

http://blogs.cfr.org/renewing-america/2015/10/05/the-tpp-agreement-big-things-are-still-possible/