{"id":16008,"date":"2015-03-04T12:42:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T17:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=16008"},"modified":"2021-02-04T10:13:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:13:51","slug":"gallagher-gridlock-good-for-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2015\/03\/04\/gallagher-gridlock-good-for-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallagher: Gridlock Good for Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kevin Gallagher<\/a>, Associate Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University<\/a>, said that a plan to delay votes on far-reaching trade partnerships could be a blessing in disguise for the embattled Obama administration.<\/p>\n

Gallagher made his case in a March 4 op-ed in the American Prospect<\/em> entitled “Saving Obama From a Bad Trade Deal.”<\/a><\/p>\n

In the op-ed, Gallagher says:<\/p>\n

“These deals would eclipse some of Obama\u2019s very real\u00a0remarkable achievements<\/a>, including rescuing the country from a depression, passing comprehensive health reform, and taking climate change seriously. The deals would increase corporate power and increase inequality.<\/p>\n

“History will be more kind to this President than what a bad dose of Fox News would suggest\u2014unless Obama trades his accomplishments away to a Republican-dominated Congress and the group of private interests that have hijacked U.S. trade policy.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read the entire article here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Gallagher is an associate professor of global development policy at Boston University\u2019s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, where he co-directs the\u00a0Global Economic Governance Initiative<\/a>\u00a0and the Global Development Policy Program.<\/p>\n

Kevin P. Gallagher is the author or co-author of five books:\u00a0Ruling Capital: Emerging Markets and the Reregulation of Cross-Border Finance<\/i><\/a>;<\/i>\u00a0The Clash of Globalizations:\u00a0 Essays on Trade and Development Policy<\/i>;\u00a0The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization\u00a0<\/i>(with Roberto Porzecanski);\u00a0The Enclave Economy: Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Mexico\u2019s Silicon Valley<\/i>\u00a0(with Lyuba Zarsky); and\u00a0Free Trade and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congression grodlock on far-reaching trade deals could be a good thing for Obama, says Kevin Gallagher. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8431,8410],"tags":[8802,8463,1362,1834,8679,8639],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47941,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16008\/revisions\/47941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}