Richard E Feinberg

University of California, San Diego | UCSD · School of Global Policy and Strategy

As part of the mid-1990s normalization process, Vietnam and the United States negotiated a bilateral accord settling the outstanding property claims of U.S. citizens and corporations; Vietnam acceded to U.S. demands to fully compensate for expropriated properties owned by U.S. citizens in the pre-1975 years. In contrast, Vietnam granted no such con...

The term competitiveness is widely applied as a catch-all for investor-friendly policies and institutions. This article argues that sloppy applications of the term ignore the possibilities of policy tradeoffs and varieties of institutional choices. Popular conceptualizations of the term describe three discernible clusters of economic policies and i...

China's rapid emergence as a commercial powerhouse has sparked wide debate as to the influence that it is likely to have on the international economic system and global geopolitics in the coming decades of the twenty-first century. With its 1.3-billion-strong population, apparent political stability, and impressive social discipline, is China a con...

At the core of the inter-American system – the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Summits of the Americas (SOA) – are inter-governmental institutions. Quite properly, these inter-American institutions are driven by governments. The region’s democratically elected governments, as expressions of their sovereign peoples, are entrusted to de...

The voluntary multilateralism and consequent institutional weaknesses that have characterized Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) since its inception in 1989 are explained by the multiple geo-political fractures that characterize the Asia Pacific, as well as bureaucratic constraints and the missed opportunities to incorporate civil society. Th...

After reviewing progress in Latin America's economic stabilization and international competitiveness in the last two decades, this essay discusses the current post-Washington Consensus “social democratic convergence” agenda, which aims to sharpen market efficiency, improve the quality of democratic governance, and advance equity goals by attacking...

The administration has assumed that markets, domestic and international, naturally tend toward stable equilibrium. Active government intervention is therefore generally unnecessary, and even counterproductive. This optimism regarding the functioning of markets has spilled over into projections of the future growth paths of the US and the world econ...

The periodic Summits of the Americas are the highest form of regional multilateralism in the Western Hemisphere, but summits lack their own means to implement their mandates. Hence, Summit Plans of Action assign many initiatives to existing regional institutions, especially the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Inter-American Developmen...

Far from being the leader, the US has been a 'domino' belatedly falling into line in the global rush toward bilateral and regional free trade arrangements. Often the initiative for negotiations has come from seemingly weaker trading partners. Once in the game, however, and aware of the asymmetries of market power and issue salience that enhance US...

With remarkable success, Latin Americans have sought to impose their free trade policy agenda on a very reluctant and internally fractious United States. They have an ally in President George W. Bush, whose senior appointments notably support hemispheric trade integration even as political pressures sometimes have yielded protectionist outcomes. Bu...

With remarkable success, Latin Americans have sought to impose their free trade policy agenda on a very reluctant and internally fractious United States. They have an ally in President George W. Bush, whose senior appointments notably support hemispheric trade integration even as political pressures sometimes have yielded protectionist outcomes. Bu...

Free trade areas are to the contemporary world what military alliances were during the Cold War years: expressions of commitments and interrelationships that transcend their formal documentation. For example, United States relations with Japan and South Korea were much deeper and diverse than the military commitments made in the respective security...

The 1994 Summit of the Americas marked a high point in hemispherism—our label for the active attempt by the nations of the Western Hemisphere to form regimes of cooperation with one another. To explain why hemispherism has not been a more powerful trend in the last 200 years, structural, interest, and cultural variables are relevant but insufficien...

Summitry in the Americas has become the predominant insti-tution driving relations between the United States and its neighbors.

The 1994 Summit of the Americas, the first such gathering of hemispheric leaders in over a generation, defined a new substantive agenda and architecture for United States-Latin American relations. The summit committed participating countries to negotiate a Free Trade Area of the Americas by 2005 and to defending the region's democratic institutions...

Three of the largest and strategically most important underdeveloped nations in the world - the Soviet Union, China and India - are simultaneously in the throes of historic changes. Economic reform in the "giants' clearly has profound consequences for their own political systems, as well as for the lives of the 2.2 billion people living in their so...

Both the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank recognize that sub - Saharan Africa (SSA) represents a difficult and complex development challenge. The author proposes that the Bank and the IMF take four institutional steps to deal effectively with the region's problems in the near term. First, the agencies should reconsider their pla...

The need to reduce the net financial drain of resources from Latin America to the international banking system through international financial institutions (IFIS) is addressed. Also explores the role of IFISs in reducing the negative transfer of resources by private lenders. IFISs are currently responsible for negative net resource transfers (NRT),...

The Third World Debt Crisis continues to burden the US economy, our foreign policy, the international financial system, and the future of many developing countries. The cancerous debt has not terminated the afflicted parties, but it is damaging many US interests. The debt disease eats at the foundations of our banking system, shrinks our export mar...

The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have been bedeviled since their common creation over how to define their areas of specialized competence and how to interact in areas of overlapping jurisdiction. The multiple shocks that have destabilized the global economy over the last two decades have stimulated the Bank and Fund to alter funda...

An overview and policy papers which were presented to the incoming new President as a set of "fresh ideas' for the coming decade, analysing the policy issues likely to be encountered. Six papers examine various aspects of the bank's role: policy-based program lending, the diplomacy of policy-based lending, poverty lending, relations with private ca...

The World Bank can play an increasingly critical role in financing Latin American development by providing enhanced balance-of-payments lending through structural adjustment (SAL) and sector loans. To date, however, SALs and sector loans have been constrained by funding limits and conditionality requirements and have not played as constructive and...

The losses and gains of the Reagan Administration are tallied both in terms of its own expressed objectives and in terms of broader, longer-term criteria for advancing U.S. economic, security, and humanitarian interests in the Third World. Individual chapters set out policy options in the areas of U.S. macro-economic policy, debt, trade, foreign as...

This paper offers a critical analysis of the findings of the Kissinger Commission on Central America. While taking into account the time pressures and the variety of opinions which influenced the Report, and noting some promising conceptual advances, the author points out a number of important internal inconsistencies and contradictions. These rela...

Revision of Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 1976. Includes bibliographical references (p) and index.

Traducción de: Chile : facing the blockade

"Los trabajos contenidos en este libro fueron preparados para un encuentro del grupo de economía del Diálogo Interamericano, que se desarrolló en la sede de la Corporación de Investigaciones Económica para Latinoamérica, CIEPLAN, en Santiago de Chile, entre el 17 y el 19 de marzo de 1986" Incluye bibliografía