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Spring 2023

When Goods Cross Borders:
Is the world ready for a new trade agenda?

Following issues on supply chains and strategic competition, the spring 2023 Wilson Quarterly examines how new trade and other agreements can bind countries together and help them rise. With authors and examples hailing from all parts of the world, we explore the history of trade attitudes, where today’s thinking is situated, and the potential for trade and other partnerships to bring global growth and stability at a crucial economic and geopolitical juncture.

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Foreword

When Goods Cross Borders

Ambassador Mark A. Green

Ambassador Green reflects on weekly trips to the open market during his days teaching school in rural East Africa, and on his time as USAID Administrator, to make a larger point about the potential of trade to bring countries together in a way that benefits all participants.

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Trade and the Future of Ukraine

Baroness Catherine Ashton and Robin Quinville

In this multimedia feature, the former European Union Trade Commissioner and the director of the Wilson Center’s Global Europe Program explore how trade and investment will contribute to Ukraine’s future—and much more.

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Is Globalization Rising Once Again?

Afshin Molavi and H.E. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeoudi, PhD

UAE’s Minister for Foreign Trade outlines his ambitious vision for future growth in conversation with journalist and senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Afshin Molavi.

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Toward a US-Ecuador Trade Agreement

President Guillermo Lasso

Ecuador President Guillermo Lasso makes the case for expanding the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement to Ecuador, or at the very least, having an enhanced US trade partnership.

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Can Trade Invigorate the Peace Process in Northern Ireland?

Alex Katsomitros

Twenty-five years since the Good Friday Agreement was first signed, Northern Ireland is pinning its hopes on trade opportunities and a stronger economy for a less turbulent future.

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Trading Water for Sun

Zoe H. Robbin

As Israel’s desalination capacity is surging and Jordan’s water supply growing scarcer, a water-energy trade deal was signed between the two countries in 2021, with the assistance of the United Arab Emirates—made possible by the Abraham Accords.