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Hemisphere Insider Volume I, Issue 5- September 2011

cwatson — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400

UP CLOSE: Venezuela's Midas Moves, Post 9/11 U.S.-Hemispheric Relations

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS: Security and Democracy in Central America, Disaster Response in the Dominican Republic

IN BRIEF: Mexico, Colombia, Oil and Trade Updates

Issues in International Political Economy - Narcotics - June 2010 - Number 126

Mgraybeal — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400

I am working on a project dealing with U.S.-Mexico narcotics traffic and this has given me new cause to think more about the subject. The report that I am preparing deals primarily with four drugs that are now illegal to produce, sell, and use in the United States—cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and marijuana.

Issues in International Political Economy - Reality Comes to the Fore - May 2010 - Number 125

Mgraybeal — Mon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Most of us have been mugged recently by reality. I am referring to the reckless behavior of investment banks in fostering subprime mortgages and then packaging these in securities that inevitably had to crash because of the largely worthless instruments they contained.

Issues in International Political Economy - Unequal Partners: The United States and Mexico - April 2010 - Number 124

adyne — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0400

The book on the United States and Mexico with the title listed above was launched on April 12 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. I trace how each country’s policy was made toward the other -- one country dominant economically, and the other dependent on the other for its market and as a destination to which its nationals flee to seek greater opportunity.

Issues in International Political Economy - Mexico-U.S. Non-Discussion of Migration - March 2010 - Number 123

adyne — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400

In a world of sovereign states, nations are free to determine which foreigners, and how many, they will allow to enter their country and how long they will be permitted to stay. Recommendations that these decisions should be negotiated between sending and receiving countries are therefore unlikely to be accepted by receiving countries unless they want more foreign workers.

Issues in International Political Economy - The Unending Campaign against NAFTA - February 2010 - Number 122

adyne — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Many Mexicans and Americans display vague misgivings about the North American Free Trade Agreement; their comments indicate that this is largely because the agreement did not turn out to be a development panacea.The core of Mexico´s growth problem, in my view, is political—namely, the inability to deal with structural problems affecting taxes, energy, education, labor markets, monop

Issues in International Political Economy - Situation in Latin America--Year-end 2009

adyne — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

The political differences among the countries in Latin America are profound, and this reality is perhaps the most important political commentary to make at year-end 2009. Countries of the region are more apt to learn from each other in the economic field.

Issues in International Political Economy - November 2009 - Number 119 - The Cost of Questionable Policies

adyne — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Until Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, it was taken for granted that no African-American could become president of the United States. Any great talent in that population group, about 13.5 percent of Americans, was discarded for the top position in the country. The situation has changed, and the United States is surely better for it.