Walking Out: America’s New Trade Policy in the Asia-Pacific and Beyond
Tuesday, October 22nd | 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
University Hall Political Science Village
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From tariff wars to torn-up trade agreements, the new book “Walking Out” explores America's recent and dramatic turn away from support for freer, rules-based trade to instead go its own new way. Focusing on America's trade engagements in the Asia-Pacific, Michael Beeman contrasts the trade policy choices made by America's leaders over several generations with those of today - decisions that are now undermining the trading system America created and triggering new tensions between America and its trading partners, allies and adversaries alike. With enormous implications for the future of regional and global trade, this timely analysis unravels the implications of America's seismic shift in approach for the future of the rules-based trading order and America's role in it.
This talk is co-sponsored by the Asian and Asian American Studies and the Economics Department
Michael Beeman, DPhil., is a Visiting Scholar at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) through 2024, where he researches and writes about trade policy issues such as economic security between the United States and Asia. He has also taught international policy as a lecturer with the Ford Dorsey Masters in International Policy program.
From January 2017 until January 2023, he was Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan, Korea and APEC at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). In that role, he led the renegotiation of the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement and the U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement, among other initiatives. Prior to this, he served in other capacities at USTR and, between 1998 and 2004, at the U.S. Department of Commerce. He received his D.Phil. (Ph.D.) in Politics from the University of Oxford in 1998 and an M.A. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 1991. He is the author of Walking Out: America’s New Trade Policy in the Asia-Pacific and Beyond (Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, 2024) and Public Policy and Economic Competition in Japan (Routledge, 2003).