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"Applied Diplomacy through the Prism of Mythology is a collection of the fine writings of former Ambassador TP Sreenivasan, curated from a bunch of riveting essays, commentaries and speeches delivered over the course of the last decade. The seven sections of the collection named after seven immortal sages contain seven essays each, establishing a link between diplomacy and mythology.
The essays in each section bear the imprint of a legendary sage, whose ...
Free trade, indeed economic globalization generally, is under siege. The conventional arguments for protectionism have been discredited but not banished. And free trade faces strong new challenges from environmentalists and human rights activists as well as traditional lobbies who wrap their agendas in the language of justice and rights. These groups, claiming a general interest and denouncing free trade as a special interest of corporations and other capitalist ...
This accessible volume for graduate students presents the pure theory of trade drawing a distinction between its positive and normative aspects. The greatest strength of the book lies in its rigorous algebraic and geometric treatment of the various models and results of trade theory.
Jagdish Bhagwati, the Internationally renowned economist who uniquely combines a reputation as the leading scholar of international trade with a substantial presence in public policy on the important issues of the day, shines here a critical light on Preferential Trade Agreements, revealing how the rapid spread of PTAs endangers the world trading system. Numbering by now well over 300, and rapidly increasing, these preferential trade agreements, many taking the ...