John S. Odell

Professor Emeritus and former Director

School of International Relations, University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California, and

Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Email: odell@usc.edu; Telephone 626-405-1991

Web://dornsife.usc.edu/odell-personal-page

https://www.cigionline.org/person/john-odell

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John_Odell2

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1976, in Political Science

M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1968

B.A. with High Honors, University of Texas-Austin, 1967

Languages: Spanish (strong reading and speaking ability); French (some ability)

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS

Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2013-present

Director, USC School of International Relations 2009-2012

Director, USC Doctoral Program in Political Economy and Public Policy, 2005-2008

Editor, International Organization, 1992-1996

Director, USC Center for International Studies, 1989-1992

Professor, University of Southern California, 1990-2013, Associate Professor 1982-1990

Assistant Professor, Department of Government, and Faculty Associate at the Center for

International Affairs, Harvard University, 1976-1982

First and Second Lieutenant, US Army, 1969-1971

Lecturer, Department of Government, Texas State University, 1968-1969

Visiting Scholar appointments:

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, 2002

Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, 1994-1995

Research Institute of Japan’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry, 1989

Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, 1985-1987

Office of U.S. Trade Representative, Executive Office of the President, 1984-1985

The Brookings Institution, 1975

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PUBLICATIONS (also see researchgate.net above)

SELECTED POLICY ANALYSIS AND COMMENTARY

Our Alarming Climate Crisis Demands Border Adjustments Now. February 2018. Think

Piece. Geneva: International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development.

“Paris Agreement: Trump risks new tariffs hurting US workers and businesses.” 7 June

2017. Opinion. Geneva: International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development.

https://www.ictsd.org/opinion/trump-risks-new-tariffs-hurting-us-workers-and-

businesses

How the United States Can Do Much More on Climate and Jobs. 2016. Policy Brief 7, Fixing

Climate Governance Series, Centre for International Governance Innovation.

www.cigionline.org.

Fixing Climate Governance, a series of Policy Briefs and Papers, co-edited with David

Runnalls. Waterloo, Canada: Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2015-16

“A Grand Bargain to Save the WTO from Declining Relevance,” in Strengthening the

Multilateral Trade System. 2013. Geneva: International Centre for Trade and Sustainable

Development, 2013. http://e15initiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/5.-

F_WTO_Proposals-and-Analysis.pdf), 39-41

How to Negotiate over Trade: A Summary of New Research for Developing Countries.

Distributed by the WTO, UNCTAD, and on line (2004), with Antonio Ortiz Mena

“La OMC, otra vez en punto muerto [The WTO, deadlocked again]," Foreign Affairs en

Español 3 (Julio-Septiembre 2003):111-118

“Triple US Foreign Aid,” on Marketplace Radio, 29 October 2001

“A few tricks of the negotiating trade, but can they produce a rabbit by November?”

World Trade Agenda, 2 July 2001, 12-14

“After the Fiasco in Seattle,” Carta Internacional No. 84, Fevereiro 2000. São Paulo: USP.

BOOKS

6. Negotiating Trade: Developing Countries in the WTO and NAFTA, ed. John Odell

(Cambridge University Press, 2006). Authored: “Introduction”; “Reframing the Issue:

The WTO Coalition on Intellectual Property and Public Health, 2001,” with Susan K.

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Sell; and “The Strict Distributive Strategy for a Bargaining Coalition: The Like Minded

Group in the World Trade Organization,” with Amrita Narlikar.

5. Negotiating the World Economy (Cornell University Press, 2000.) Published in Chinese

(Beijing: World Affairs Press, 2004) and Spanish (Mexico City: Ediciones Gernika, 2004).

4. International Trade Policies: Gains from Exchange between Economics and Political Science, ed.

with Thomas D. Willett (University of Michigan Press, 1990).

3. International Monetary Cooperation, Domestic Politics, and Policy Ideas, double special issue

of the Journal of Public Policy, 8 (July - December 1988) ed,with T.D. Willett.

2. Anti-Protection: Changing Forces in U.S. Trade Politics (Institute for International

Economics, 1987), with I.M. Destler. Published in Japanese, 1990.

1. U.S. International Monetary Policy: Markets, Power, and Ideas as Sources of Change

(Princeton University Press, 1982).

RESEARCH ARTICLES, CHAPTERS AND SHORT MONOGRAPHS

37. “Negotiating Agreements in International Relations,” in Political Negotiation: A

Handbook, ed. Jane Mansbridge and Cathie Jo Martin (The Brookings Institution Press,

2016), 231-85. Co-authored by Dustin Tingley with contributions by Fen Osler

Hampson, Andrew H. Kydd, Brett Ashley Leeds, James K. Sebenius, Janice Gross Stein,

Barbara F. Walter, and I. William Zartman.

36. How Should the WTO Launch and Negotiate a Future Round? World Trade Review

14 (January 2015): 117-134.

35. “Negotiation and Bargaining,” in Handbook of International Relations, 2d. edition, ed.

Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse, and Beth Simmons (Sage, 2013),379-400.

34. “Negotiating from Weakness in International Trade Relations,” Journal of World

Trade 44 (2010): 544-66. The Smuts Commonwealth Lecture, University of Cambridge

33. “Three Islands of Knowledge about Negotiation in International Organizations,”

Journal of European Public Policy 17 (2010): 619-32

32. “Trade policy.” In Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History, vol. 7, 1976 to the present, The

Clash of Conservatism and Liberalism, ed. Richard Valelly (CQ Press, 2010), 392-395.

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31. “Breaking Deadlocks in International Institutional Negotiations: The WTO, Seattle,

and Doha,” International Studies Quarterly 53 (2009): 273-99

30. “Growing Power Meets Frustration in the Doha Round’s First Four Years,” in

Developing Countries and Global Trade Negotiations, ed. Larry Crump and Javed Maswood

(Routledge, 2007), 7-40.

29. “Chairing a WTO Negotiation,” Journal of International Economic Law 8 (2) (2005):

425-48. Also in Reforming the World Trade System: Legitimacy, Efficiency, and Democratic

Governance, ed. Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann (Oxford University Press, 2005), 469-96

28. “The Seattle Impasse and Its Implications for the World Trade Organization,” in The

Political Economy of International Trade Law, ed. Daniel L. M. Kennedy and James D.

Southwick. (Cambridge University Press, 2002), 400-29.

27. “Bounded Rationality and the World Political Economy,” in Governing the World’s

Money, ed. D. Andrews, R. Henning, and L. Pauly (Cornell University Press, 2002)

26. “Creating Data on International Negotiation Strategies, Alternatives, and

Outcomes," International Negotiation 7 (2002):39-52

25. “Case Study Methods in International Political Economy,” International Studies

Perspectives 2 (May 2001): 161-76. Also in Cases, Numbers, Models: International Relations

Research Methods, ed. D. Sprinz and Y. Wolinsky (University of Michigan Press, 2004)

24. “Market Conditions and International Economic Negotiation: Japan and the United

States in 1971,” in International Economic Negotiations: Models versus Reality, ed. Victor

Kremenyuk and Gunnar Sjöstedt (Edward Elgar, 2000).

23. “The United States, the ITO, and the WTO: Exit Options, Agent Slack, and Presidential

Leadership,” in The WTO as an International Organization, ed. Anne O. Krueger (University

of Chicago Press, 1998), with Barry Eichengreen

22. “International Economic Negotiation, Strategy Choice and Policy Beliefs,” Leviathan (in

Japanese), Fall 1997

21. "International Threats and Internal Politics: Brazil, the European Community, and the

United States, 1985-1987," in Double Edged Diplomacy: International Bargaining and Domestic

Politics, ed. Peter Evans, Harold K. Jacobson, and Robert D. Putnam (University of

California Press, 1993)

20. "Comment" in A Retrospective on the Bretton Woods System, ed. Michael Bordo and

Barry Eichengreen (University of Chicago Press, 1993)

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19. Brazilian Informatics and the United States: Defending Infant Industry versus Opening

Foreign Markets (Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, 1992), with

Anne Dibble

18. European Community Enlargement and the United States (Institute for the Study of

Diplomacy, Georgetown University, 1992), with Margit Matzinger-Tchakerian; also in

Talking Trade: U.S. Policy in International Perspective, ed. R.S. Walters (Westview Press 1993)

17. Korean Joggers (Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, 1992),

with David Lang

16. "Understanding International Trade Policies: An Emerging Synthesis," World Politics 43

(1) (October 1990): 139-167. Rpt. in Trade and Investment Policy, ed. Thomas Brewer

(Edward Elgar, 1998)

15. Politics of Access to U.S. Industrial Markets: Fragmenting Liberalism in the 1980s (Rio de

Janeiro: Departamento de Economia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica, 1990).

14. "United States Trade Policy, Free Trade and Protectionism: Policy Stability and

Corporate Risk," in Trade Policy and Corporate Business Decisions, eds. Tamir Agmon and

Christine Hekman (Oxford University Press, 1990), with Thomas D. Willett

13. "Developing Country Coalition-Building and International Trade Negotiations," in

Trade Policy and the Developing World, ed. John Whalley, I, 149-170 (University of Michigan

Press, 1989), with Miles Kahler

12. "From London to Bretton Woods: Sources of Change in Bargaining Strategies and

Outcomes," Journal of Public Policy, 8 (July-December 1988): 287-316. Published in Japanese

in Leviathan (1992), and in The Reconstruction of the International Economy, 1945-1960, ed.

Barry Eichengreen (Edward Elgar, 1996)

11. "Growing Trade and Growing Conflict Between Latin America and the United States,"

in The United States and Latin America in the 1980s, ed. Kevin Middlebrook and Carlos Rico

(University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986)

10. "The Outcomes of International Trade Conflicts: The U.S. and South Korea,

1960-1981," International Studies Quarterly 29 (3) (September 1985): 263-286.

9. "Growing Trade and Growing Conflict Between the Republic of Korea and the United

States," in From Patron to Partner: The Development of U.S.-Korean Business and Trade

Relations, ed. Karl Moskowitz (Lexington Books, 1984). Also in Korean Journal of

International Studies XVII (Winter 1985-86):1-36.

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8. "Latin American Industrial Exports and Trade Negotiations with the United States," in

Economic Issues and Political Conflict: U.S.-Latin American Relations, ed. Jorge I. Dominguez

(Butterworths, 1982)

7. "Bretton Woods and International Political Disintegration: Implications for Monetary

Diplomacy," in The Political Economy of Domestic and International Monetary Relations, ed.

Raymond Lombra and William Witte (Iowa State University Press, 1982)

6. "Latin American Trade Negotiations with the United States," International Organization

34 (Spring 1980): 207-228. Published in Spanish by Cuadernos Semestrales (Mexico), 1980

5. "The U.S. and the Emergence of Flexible Exchange Rates: An Analysis of Foreign

Policy Change," in International Organization 33 (Winter 1979): 57-82. Earlier version

published in German by Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 1977

4. "The Politics of Debt Relief: Official Creditors and Brazil, Ghana, and Chile," in Debt and

the Less Developed Countries, ed. Jonathan Aronson (Westview Press, 1979)

3. "The Hostility of U.S. External Behavior: An Exploration," in Sage International Yearbook

of Foreign Policy Studies 3 (1975)

2. "Correlates of U.S. Military Assistance and Military Intervention," in Testing Theories of

Economic Imperialism, ed. Steven Rosen and James Kurth (DC Heath Lexington Books,

1974)

1. “Political Public Relations in Texas Campaigning,” in Documents and Readings in

American and Texas Government, ed. E. A. DeShazo, R. D. Wrinkle, and R. W. Bland

(Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1969).

BOOK REVIEWS

Bounded Rationality and Economic Diplomacy: The Politics of Investment Treaties in

Developing Countries. By Lauge Poulsen. Perspectives on Politics 15 (March 2017):

304-5.

Investing in Protection: The Politics of Preferential Trade Agreements between North and

South, by Mark Manger. Perspectives on Politics 9 (March 2011):228-9.

“Analyzing Complex U.S. Trade Negotiations,” review of Case Studies in U.S. Trade

Negotiation, 2 vols., by C. Devereaux, R. Lawrence and M. Watkins. Negotiation

Journal (July 2008), 355-70, with Larry Crump

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“A Major Milestone with One Major Limitation,” review of Case Studies and Theory

Development in the Social Sciences by A. George and A. Bennett, Qualitative

Methods 4 (Spring 2006), 37-40

Open-Economy Politics: The Political Economy of the World Coffee Trade by Robert H. Bates.

American Political Science Review 95 (March 2001):250-1

Hanging Together: Cooperation and Conflict in the Seven-Power Summits, by Robert D. Putnam

and Nicholas Bayne, in Journal of Public Policy, 1988

Mexico's Dilemma: The Political Origins of Economic Crisis, by Roberto Newell and Luis

Rubio, in Journal of International Business Studies, 1985

Governments, Markets and Growth: Financial Systems and the Politics of Industrial Change, by

John Zysman, in Political Science Quarterly, 1985

United States International Economic Policy in Action: Diversity of Decision Making, by

Stephen D. Cohen and Ronald I. Meltzer, American Political Science Review, March

1984

Congress and the Politics of U.S. Foreign Economic Policy, 1929-1976, by Robert Pastor, in

Journal of Politics, 1983

Tariffs, Quotas and Trade: The Politics of Protectionism, (Institute for Contemporary Studies),

Journal of Politics, August, 1980

President Eisenhower and Strategy Management: A Study in Defense Politics, by Douglas

Kinnard, Journal of Politics, August 1979

HONORS AND GRANTS

USC Mellon Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduates, April 2009

Smuts Commonwealth Lecture, University of Cambridge, March 2009

Stanford University, Institute for International Studies, Fellowship, 1994-1995

Ford Foundation, grant to study international trade, international organizations, and

negotiations, 1989-1990, with T. W. Willett

Social Science Research Council, Advanced Research Fellowship in Foreign Policy

Studies, for study of the domestic political process, foreign policy, and

international economic bargaining, 1987-1989

Ford Foundation, grant to hold two conferences on the blending of economic and political

analysis of international economic relations, 1986-1988, with T.D. Willett.

Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship, 1984-1985

Ford Foundation, Program in International Economic Order, grant to study trade conflicts

between the U.S. and newly industrialized countries, 1979-1982

Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in International Relations, 1979-1981 (declined)

Institute for the Study of World Politics, Research grant, 1979-1980 (declined)

Harvard University, Center for International Affairs, Fellowship, 1975-1976

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Research grant, 1975

International Studies Association, Prize for Best Student Paper, 1973

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PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP, SERVICE, AND MEMBERSHIPS

Founder and coordinator of Economic Negotiation Network (www.usc.edu/enn), a

worldwide virtual network of researchers, 2002-2012

Boards:

Centre for Multilateral Negotiation, cemune.org, 2018-present

International Organization: Member 1984 to 2003; chair of the Investment

Committee, 1999-2003; Senior Advisor to the Editor, 2006-present

Journal of Public Policy, 1990-2002

Journal of Politics, 1982-1988

Book series published by University of Michigan Press, Westview Press, Martinus

Nijhoff

Review panels and examining:

University of Toronto, review of Centre for International Studies, January 2008

Swiss National Science Foundation, member of review panel for its National

Center for Research on International Trade Regulation, 2006-2017

University of Oxford, external examiner of doctoral candidates, 2006-2011

Pomona College, review of international relations program

U.S. National Academy of Engineering, Steering Committee, Technology and

Trade Policies, member 1991

Harvard University, Pew Faculty Fellowship, Selection Board member 1989-1994

Confidential peer reviewer of promotion dossiers for many universities

Confidential peer reviewer of many articles for professional journals, and of grant

proposals for the US National Science Foundation and the Swiss National Science

Foundation

Member of Council on Foreign Relations, International Studies Association

American Political Science Association

2012-2013: co-chair, IR working group, presidential task force on Negotiating

Agreements in Politics, with Dustin Tingley

2003-04: member of the International Committee

1999: Chair of the Hubert Humphrey Award committee

1985: Chair of Helen Dwight Reid Award committee

International Studies Association

2007-10: member of publication committee, to choose and oversee editors of ISA

journals

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Harvard University

Center for International Affairs, Director of Student Programs, 1979-1982

University of Southern California

University Employee Benefits Committee, member 2003-2007

University Faculty Handbook Committee, chair and member 2000-2002

University Committee on Appointments, Promotion and Tenure, social sciences

chair and member 1996-1999

College Promotion Committee, social sciences chair 2008-09

College Faculty Council, member 2006-2007

Doctoral Program in Political Economy and Public Policy, Director, 2005-08,

Coordinating Committee member 1996, 2002

School of International Relations (SIR) Director’s Advisory and merit review

committee, member and chair, many years 1982 to 2009

SIR honors program, director 2000-2011

SIR, International Political Economy field, coordinator 1995-2009

SIR self-review report, co-author with A. F. Lowenthal, 2000

SIR faculty recruitment committees, including those to fill the Dockson Chair

and the McCone Chair, chair and member, many years

SIR graduate admissions committee, member 1999-2000, 2002-3

Center for International Studies advisory committee, member 1997-98, 2001-02,

2009-12

CONSULTANCIES

The Asia Foundation, 1997; México, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Instituto Tecnológico

Autónoma de México, a short course in negotiation, 1991. Earlier: Ford Foundation,

Council of the Americas, the World Bank, U.S. Department of State

INVITED LECTURES AND CONFERENCES besides regular academic conventions

“Integrating Design Elements for a Low-Carbon Club,” Workshop on Prospects for

Climate Clubs, Paris, July 2015

“Fixing Climate Governance Globally and in the USA,” at Princeton Workshop on Global

Governance, Princeton University, and at CIGI, Waterloo, Ontario, June 2015

Discussant, Workshop on International Trade and Climate Change, Lima, Peru, December

2014

Discussant, conference on “Strategic Momentum for Climate Change Action,” 55th

Strategy for Peace Conference, sponsored by The Stanley Foundation and chaired

by the UN Secretary General’s office, Airlie Center, Warrenton, Virginia, October

2014

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Discussant, conference on Negotiating Climate Change, ETH Zurich and University of

Zurich, September 2011

Co-chair, with US Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley, conference on the

international security environment, involving US Air Force commanders and US

west coast scholars, USC, 26 April 2011

The Smuts Commonwealth Lecture at the University of Cambridge, 12 March 2009; also

given at London School of Economics and Political Science, March 2009 and

University of California Irvine, May 2009

Discussant, conference on “The Genesis of the GATT,” American Law Institute and

Columbia University Law School, November 2007

Lecture, “Why the Doha Round Has Stalemated and What is Needed Now,” National

Association of Business Economics, San Francisco, September 2007

Lecture, “Developing Country Negotiating Strategies in the WTO,” at a conference on

Adapting to the New Asian Giants, at Brown University and Bryant University,

April 2007

Presented a paper on “Negotiating International Institutions: Institutional Change from

the GATT to the WTO,” University of Oxford, December 2006

Presented a paper on “Breaking Deadlocks in International Regime Negotiations: The

WTO, Seattle, Doha,” at Aoyama Gakuin University Tokyo, December 2001;

Yonsei University, Seoul, June 2002; the European University Institute, Florence,

October 2002; the Graduate Institute of International Studies Geneva, November

2002; the USC Center for International Studies, January 2003; University of

Cambridge, December 2006

Three lectures on “Conducting and Mediating International Negotiations,” Latin

American Faculty of Social Sciences, Buenos Aires, October 2005

Lectures on “Negotiating the World Economy,” at the University of Guadalajara,

Autonomous Technological Institute of México, Panamerican University, and

Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, México City, May 2004; gave

press conference on the WTO for five major México City dailies

Organized and co-chaired (with Cédric Dupont) a conference on Developing Countries’

Trade Negotiations, held at the United Nations Geneva headquarters,

November 2003; conference opened by Rubens Ricupero, Secretary General of

UNCTAD, and Supachai Panitchpakdi, Director General of the WTO

“Will the WTO Break its Deadlock in Cancún?” at the Autonomous Technological

Institute of Mexico, Mexico City, 21 August 2003. Gave an informal briefing in

Spanish to six Mexican federal Senators and their advisers

Presented a paper on “Problems in Negotiating Consensus in the World Trade

Organization,” at a conference at Peking University, July 2001

Presented a paper on “The Seattle Impasse and Its Implications for the World Trade

Organization,” at a conference co-sponsored by the World Bank at the

Université Libre de Bruxelles, July 2000, a conference at the University of

Minnesota, September 2000, and the International Studies Association

convention, February 2001

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“Negotiating the World Economy,” at the University of South Carolina and the Institute

for International Economics, Washington, D.C., May 2000

Discussant at a Conference on Cognition, Emotion, and Rational Choice, UCLA, April

2000

Participant in conference on international finance, University of California Santa

Barbara, January 2000

Discussant at a conference on European Monetary Union, Claremont-McKenna College,

April 1998

Discussant at a conference on Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, University of

Southern California, September 1997

“Prospects for Research on Economic Bargaining,” Sejong Institute, Seoul, August 1997

“Military-Political Conditions and International Economic Negotiations,” University of

Chicago, May 1997

“Interviews, case studies, and theory building,” Duke University, April 1995

“International Political Economy,” Central European University, Budapest, March 1995

“Recent Trends in International Relations Research: an Editor's Perspective,” Stanford

University, February 1995; University of California-Santa Barbara, April 1993

“International Economic Conflicts in the 1990s,” University of California, Irvine, January

1995

“Gaining and Losing from International Economic Bargaining,” The Humphrey Institute

and the Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota, October 1994

Lectures on international political economy, at People's University of China, Beijing, and

Hang Zhou University, Hang Zhou, 1994

Presented a paper at conference on trade policy, National Bureau of Economic Research,

Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 1992

Presented a paper at Conference on Trade Policy and the Developing World, Ottawa,

August 1987

Participant, Conference on Trade Policy and the Developing World, Oaxaca, July 1986

“U.S. Trade Policy and México,” Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California,

San Diego, June 1986

"Roots of U.S. Trade Policies toward México, and Prospects for the Near Future,"

University of California, San Diego, February 1986

"U.S. International Trade Objectives and Domestic Politics: Are They Consistent?” Council

on Foreign Relations, New York City, June 1985

“U.S. and Brazilian Trade Policies,” to Senior Staff of Brazilian Import Administration; the

Secretariat of Planning; the University of Brasília; and the Federations of

Commerce and Industry of the states of São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul, and Minas

Gerais, May 1985

“Mexican and U.S. Trade Policies,” Mexican Institute of Foreign Trade; American

Chamber of Commerce seminars for Mexican corporate leaders in Mexico City

and Monterrey; University of Nuevo Leon; Iberoamericana University; and the

Guadalajara Chamber of Industry, February 1985

“Domestic Roots of and Recent Developments in U.S. Trade Policies,” to officials,

academics, and business Leaders in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Buenos Aires and

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Rosario, Argentina; Santiago, Chile; and Quito and Guayaquil, Ecuador,

November 1984

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