Description:
Freedom is just; fairness is just; sustainability is just. How do policymakers weigh and advance the sometimes contradictory aims of economic efficiency, equity, and sustainability? In assessing free, fair, and sustainable trade, is it possible to move toward a more moral form of trade? This conference examines the question of how to balance free and fair trade—and applies insights to the case of equitable resource extraction.
Panel One:
Can and Should Trade Be Used to Promote Human Rights, Fairness?
AUDIO:
Why Economics Matters in Foreign PolicyEdward Lincoln, Director, Center for Japan-U.S. Business, New York University
AUDIO:
How Non-state Actors Are Part of a New Balance of PowersAndrew Kuper, Managing Director for Strategic Partnerships at Ashoka
AUDIO:
A Framework and Principles for a Fairer Trading System
Christian Barry, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin
Panel Two:
Reconciling What Is Possible with What Is Desired: The Goals
of Free, Fair, and Sustainable Trade.
AUDIO:
Coherence, Sanctions, and Human Rights Objectives
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Visiting Professor, Graduate Program in International
Affairs, New School University
AUDIO:
Fairness and Export Subsidies in Global Trade
Mathias Risse, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Philosophy, Harvard
University
AUDIO:
Global Civil Society Mechanisms for Creating Fairer Trade
Michael E. Conroy, Program Director for Global Governance, Rockefeller
Brothers Fund
Panel Three:
Institutionalizing Fairness?
AUDIO:
Procedural and Substantive Fairness in Trade Negotiations
Junji Nakagawa, Professor of International Economic Law, University of Tokyo
AUDIO:
Institutionalizing Fairness: Making Trade Work for PeopleKamal Malhotra, Senior Adviser on Inclusive Globalisation, UNDP
Panel Four:
Trading with Bad Actors
AUDIO:
Reconciling Business Ethics Approaches
David Rodin, Director of Research, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
AUDIO:
Developing Economy Dependence on Natural Resource Trade
Keith Slack, Senior Policy Advisor, Oxfam America
Discussant:
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Visiting Professor, Graduate Program in International
Affairs, New School University
Panel Five:
Pricing and Technology
AUDIO:
Price and Technology Opportunities in Managing Energy Resources
David Dell, President, Sustainable Profitability Group
Discussants:
Michael E. Conroy, Program Director for Global Governance, Rockefeller
Brothers Fund
Keith Slack, Senior Policy Advisor, Oxfam America
Panel Six:
The China Factor in Global Ethics
AUDIO:
Human Rights Issues and the Africa-China Economic Relationship
David Shinn, Adjunct Professor, The Elliot School of
International Affairs, George Washington University
AUDIO:
The West's Reaction to the 2006 China-Africa SummitStephanie T. Kleine-Ahlbrandt, International Affairs Fellow, Council on
Foreign Relations
Panel Seven:
Global Resource Distribution
AUDIO:
Global Institutions and the Role of Resources
Thomas Pogge, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
AUDIO:
A Critical Perspective on the Natural Resource Curse
Sanjay G. Reddy, Assistant Professor of Economics, Barnard College
Closing Speech:
Noboru Maruyama, General Secretary, The Uehiro Foundation
