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Takeda narrates early French-Persian trade relations

Junko Takeda

January 31, 2021

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Popp weighs in on Biden's climate directives in New York Times

David Popp, Caroline Rapking Faculty Scholar in Public Administration and Policy and co-author of a 2020 paper on the employment effects of the Obama-era spending on green job creation, discounted the notion of creating one million new auto manufacturing jobs.

January 28, 2021

McDowell reviews Biden's agenda to revitalize US manufacturing in World Politics Review

Existing U.S. trade agreements may constrain President Joe Biden’s ability to deliver on his promise to spend $400 billion over four years on American-made goods, says Daniel McDowell, associate professor of political science.

January 20, 2021

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Lovely weighs in on Trump's failed trade war with China in Bloomberg

"China is too big and too important to the world economy to think that you can cut it out like a paper doll," says Professor Mary Lovely. "The Trump administration had a wake-up call." Read more in the Bloomberg article, "How China Won Trump’s Trade War and Got Americans to Foot the Bill."

January 13, 2021

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Lovely talks to SCMP, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! about future of US buying practices, trade

Professor Mary Lovely spoke with several media outlets about the US-China trade landscape for 2021, the future of tariffs and the impact of President-elect Joe Biden's buy America pledge.

January 5, 2021

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McDowell examines how Biden will handle trade in World Politics Review

"While there is some room for Biden to maneuver when it comes to tariffs and other measures, the apparent durability of a Trumpian approach to trade signals that a new era in U.S. trade policy has not only arrived, it plans to stay awhile," writes Daniel McDowell, associate professor of political science.

December 16, 2020

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Morgan quoted in Vox article on Brexit negotiations

Glyn Morgan was interviewed in Vox article, "Brexit talks enter the final stage — maybe."

December 8, 2020

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Lovely talks to Agweek about Biden's approach on trade issues

"We know to expect, clearly from his history, that President-elect Biden will work more closely with Western allies and use international institutions to promote new global initiatives," says Mary Lovely, professor of economics.

December 4, 2020

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Lovely discusses US-China trade under Biden in Iowa Capital Dispatch

"If there’s going to be some type of rapprochement with China on this [trade deals], there’s going to have to be negotiations before that between the Chinese and the Americans that deescalate the conflict and result in some other wins from both sides," says Mary Lovely, professor of economics.

November 24, 2020

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Lovely quoted in New York Times article on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership

"RCEP [Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership] gives foreign companies enhanced flexibility in navigating between the two giants," says Professor of Economics Mary Lovely. "Lower tariffs within the region increases the value of operating within the Asian region, while the uniform rules of origin make it easier to pull production away from the Chinese mainland while retaining that access."

November 16, 2020

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