Negotiating Our Economic Future - Trade Technology and Diplomacy
Geoffrey Pigman Allen
Publisher: Agenda Publishing
Summary
Tariffs and trade barriers are rising, diplomatic institutions that have for decades promoted liberal trade are under attack, and global value chains are weakening. And at the root of this crisis, argues Geoff Pigman, is accelerating technological change. This book traces the impact of today’s major technological transformations on global trade and the diplomacy that makes trade possible. Not only is global trade changing, in terms of what is traded and how, but diplomacy in the digital age is changing as well. In Negotiating Our Economic Future, Pigman offers both an insightful analysis of the constraints under which trade operates, as well as pragmatic policy approaches for the diplomatic management of a challenging and potentially dangerous future.