Book Launch | Walking Out: America’s New Trade Policy in the Asia-Pacific & Beyond | Michael Beeman

From tariff wars to torn-up trade agreements, Michael Beeman's new book “Walking Out” (Shorenstein APARC, 2024) explores America's recent and dramatic turn away from support for freer, rules-based trade to instead go its own new way. See also https://stanford.io/3Naheca

Focusing on America's trade engagements in the Asia-Pacific and drawing on his experience as a former senior U.S. trade official, 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.