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  • 6 Aug 2008

    Free Trade = Good for Human Rights

    Susan Aaronson, author of Trade Imbalance gave an opinion piece on NPR’s Marketplace yesterday afternoon. Human rights groups may protest the Columbian free trade agreement, and point to Columbia’s shoddy record of human rights. Ok, yes, it’s shoddy. But should we wave a stick at it and hope it improves? Aaronson points out that what […]

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  • 22 Jul 2008
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    Obama, the Optimist on Trade

    Today’s Financial Times offers commentary by Susan Aaronson, a scholar who analyzes the murky relationships between trade and human rights. In it she poses the question: if both candidates are pro-trade, what else will they do with their policies? Around the world, the press has portrayed the 2008 US presidential election as a choice between […]

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  • 19 Mar 2008

    Human Rights, Trade, and the 2008 Presidential Elections

    President Bush is not the only president, or even the first one, to favor trade expansion over human rights protection. Susan Aaronson, expert in the intersection of trade and human rights, seeks to flesh out Bush’s views on how trade affects human rights, with a look at what this means for the current candidates. See […]

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