Supplemental Materials

U.S. Trade Policy: Competing in a Global Economy

U.S. Trade Policy: Competing in a Global Economy helps students explore how U.S. trade policy fits into our country's overall role in the world. This unit considers trade issues in the context of international relations, the forces of globalization, and concerns about economic inequity.

Web Links

Center for Global Development
This site provides information about development issues and how they connect to global trade and economics.

Globalization 101
Sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, this site provides resources for students on globalization issues.

Public Citizen
This institution opposes trade organizations that benefit corporations. Provides information on fair trade issues.

U.S. Department of Commerce International Trade Association
This site provides information and statistics about U.S. global trade history.

U.S. Trade Representative
This site outlines U.S. interests in global trade and provides statistics and general information.

World Trade Organization
This site provides information on current and past disputes, statistics, and goals of the organization.

Books

Bhagwati, Jagdish. In Defense of Globalization (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). 308 pages.

Friedman, Thomas. The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (New York: Farar, Straus, Giroux, 1999). 394 pages.

Krugman, Paul R. The Accidental Theorist and other Dispatches from the Dismal Science (New York: W.W. Norton, 1999). 204 pages.

Sforza, Michelle, and Wallach, Lori. Whose Trade Organization: Corporate Globalization and the Erosion of Democracy. (Washington, DC: Public Citizen, 1999). 232 pages.

Stiglitz, Joseph E. Globalization and its Discontents (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002). 282 pages.

NOTE:This is a selected list of resources focused on the topic of the curriculum unit, U.S. Trade Policy: Competing in a Global Economy. Additional resources will be added to this site as they become available.