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In this inaugural episode of The Trade Guys, Scott Miller and Bill Reinsch talk about a trade deal that’s made headlines: The Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP. They discuss what to make of the President’s recent announcement that the U.S. might rejoin the deal—even though he pulled out of it on his third day in office. What will it take for the U.S. to rejoin? Can it even do that? How are the other signatories proceeding? Hosted by H. Andrew Schwartz and produced by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
 (Read more at https://csis.org/podcasts/trade-guys/1-be-or-not-be-tpp)

#1: To Be / Or Not to Be in the TPP

In this episode of The Trade Guys, Scott Miller and Bill Reinsch tackle two big stories: what came out of the latest U.S.-China trade talks, and what’s happening with the North American Free Trade Agreement. On the U.S.-China trade dialogue, the Trade Guys deconstruct what it means to halt a trade war. They also discuss what exactly the president meant when he tweeted that on China, barriers and tariffs are to “come down for the first time.” On NAFTA, the Trade Guys explain why the administration might be falling behind schedule to renegotiate the deal. (Read more at https://csis.org/podcasts/trade-guys/3-trade-war-hold-and-skinny-nafta)

#3: Trade War on Hold and a Skinny NAFTA

In this episode of The Trade Guys, Scott Miller and Bill Reinsch recap the fallout from the Trump administration’s move to impose tariffs on the EU and Canada. The Trade Guys also look ahead to the G7 Summit, and the bad blood brewing between the U.S. and some of its key allies on trade. The Trade Guys also chat about President Trump’s pursuit of an aggressive trade agenda and the politics of it all. Recorded in front of a live audience of Tulane University Students participating in the center’s journalism practicum. Hosted by H. (Read more at https://csis.org/podcasts/trade-guys/4-bad-moon-rising-over-g7)

#4: Bad Moon Rising Over G7

The CSIS Trade Guys, Bill Reinsch and Scott Miller, take on the Trump administration’s announcement that it will impose tariffs on $50 billion of goods from China, raising the potential for a trade war between the world’s two biggest economies. Plus, the Trade Guys weigh in on the continuing G7 fallout and what it means for the United States. Hosted by H. Andrew Schwartz and produced by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
 (Read more at https://csis.org/podcasts/trade-guys/i-smell-trade-war)

I Smell a Trade War

The tit-for-tat tariff offensive continues as Canada slaps retaliatory tariffs on Heintz ketchup, and tariffs on steel and aluminum wreak havoc on all kinds of American products—from cars to beer. In this episode of The Trade Guys, Scott Miller and Bill Reinsch put President Trump’s notion that trade wars are “good, and easy to win” to the test. The Trade Guys also examine whether or not the administration’s trade war is at odds with its domestic economic policies. Hosted by H. Andrew Schwartz and produced by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
 (Read more at https://csis.org/podcasts/trade-guys/trade-war-hitting-fever-pitch)

Trade War Hitting A Fever Pitch

In this episode, Trade Guys Bill Reinsch and Scott Miller discuss Harley Davidson’s decision to outsource some of their production and why it has upset the President. Plus, Treasury Secretary Mnuchin doesn’t give credence to the news about President Trump considering leaving the WTO (World Trade Organization), but it has made a lot of buzz and has the Trade Guys thinking. Hosted by H. Andrew Schwartz and produced by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
 (Read more at https://csis.org/podcasts/trade-guys/goodbye-harley-davidson-and-wto)

Goodbye to Harley Davidson and the WTO?

In this episode, the Trade Guys discuss the mayhem right before the United States pulls the trigger on imposing tariffs on China. The tariffs are set to take effect at 12:01 a.m. in Washington on Friday, and the administration is slated to slap tariffs on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods. The administration says they want to level the playing field, but is this good for American workers and companies? Hosted by H. Andrew Schwartz and produced by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
 (Read more at https://csis.org/podcasts/trade-guys/counting-down-tariff-time)

Counting Down to Tariff Time

U.S. Protectionism and the EU-Japan Trade Deal

Are Tariffs the Greatest?

Globalists see themselves as the peacekeepers through their advocacy of the values of liberalism, free trade, democracy and internationalism. Yet the actions of the institutions over which they preside seem to bring the opposite. They generate division and conflict both within nations and also between them. So we have heightened polarisation within Brexit Britain, as well as within other leading European countries. Within the European Union, tensions have escalated both between north and south, and between west and east. And despite the claimed Macron-Trump bromance, trans-Atlantic conflicts are mounting too. Is all this an inevitable outcome of the globalist perspective that denies the effectiveness of national state policies? Is there a solution to the widely held ‘global trilemma’, suggested by the writer Dani Rodrik? This says that economic globalisation, democracy and national sovereignty are mutually incompatible: we can combine any two of the three, but never have all three simultaneously and in full.

The Academy 2018: Globalism and neo-liberalism - Phil Mullan

A recording of a lecture by Rachel Hammersley at The Academy 2018, a residential weekend organised by the Academy of Ideas. Find out more here: http://www.academyofideas.org.uk/events/archive/the_academy_2018#.W26sCOhKi3B

Rachel Hammersley is senior lecturer, intellectual history, Newcastle University; author, The English Republican Tradition and Eighteenth-Century France; editor, Revolutionary Moments: reading revolutionary texts

Introduction:

Popular sovereignty lies at the heart of our modern understanding of democracy government. But what does this concept mean and how did it emerge? In the large states of Northern Europe, for much of the medieval period and beyond, the term ‘sovereign’ was conventionally used to describe a monarch. Yet, from the sixteenth century onwards, the concept was being transformed. This lecture traces that transformation, taking in the influential distinction drawn by Jean Bodin between sovereignty and government and the practical and theoretical developments arising out of the English, American and French Revolutions.

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Academy 2018: The Transformation of the Concept of Popular Sovereignty in Early-Modern Europe

A recording of a lecture by Dr Jim Panton at The Academy 2018, a residential weekend organised by the Academy of Ideas. Find out more here: http://www.academyofideas.org.uk/events/archive/the_academy_2018#.W5ur3vlKiUl

Liberalism is generally, and many liberals are in particular, ambivalent about nationalism. On the one hand, early liberal and republican thinkers developed bold attempts to theorise sovereignty as the foundation of state legitimacy and unifying condition of the nation. On the other hand, liberal thinkers have struggled to justify the accidental character of national boundaries and the implications these have for inhabitants of different nations. Further, modern liberals disavow the chauvinism they believe to be inherent in nationalism, proposing instead a cosmopolitan ethics. This lecture considers the development of the liberal ideal of the state in the thought of Locke, Rousseau, and ultimately, Kant, and looks at the extent to which the Kantian model of sovereignty as the foundation of nation-statehood, is increasingly maligned.

The Academy 2018

Academy 2018: The ideal of the liberal nation state

In this episode, we discuss conflict resolution and development in the northeast Indian state of Nagaland. The long-running insurgency in Nagaland looks to be drawing to a close following conclusion of a framework for a peace agreement in 2015 between the government of India and the Naga rebels, but a final peace deal is still pending. For Nagaland's state government, the challenge for the future is solidifying good governance that will translate to development.

Joining the pod to provide an update on the peace process, state politics, and efforts to increase infrastructure and investment in Nagaland is Mr. Abu Metha. Mr. Metha is a journalist and political organizer who serves as the General Secretary of the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party in Nagaland. He recently sat down with CSIS Wadhwani Chair Research Associate Aman Thakker to share his insights on the current status of Nagaland. 

Audio edited by Ribka Gemilangsari. Written by Jeffrey Bean and Aman Thakker.  Produced by Jeffrey Bean.