The World Trade Organization's (WTO's) striking announcement in July that the incidence of trade-restrictive measures imposed by G-20 governments remains at historical highs, punctuated the sober landscape of international commerce to which we have sadly become accustomed over the past 2½ years. If history is any guide, such policies do not ...

Throughout much of the past century the U.S. was a forceful, if not incessant voice in global fora of the belief that the more liberalized a country's regulatory regime towards foreign investment, the stronger the prospects for economic growth, job creation and productivity. Washington largely walked the talk: U.S. policy towards inbound cro...

Many corporate boards have made significant progress about understanding the importance of cyber security to the competitive health and sustainability of the companies they oversee. They've certainly gotten the message that cyber security is not just an IT issue. And, within the portion of board meetings devoted to risk assessment, cyber sec...