Foreign Affairs - Author Page - ROBERT L PAARLBERG

Author Page - ROBERT L PAARLBERG

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The Global Food Fight
Robert L. Paarlberg
May/June 2000
Summary: New technologies often provoke strong resistance -- even when, as with genetically modified crops, their benefits vastly outweigh their potential harms. The fact is that transgenic food has no proven downside. Nevertheless, scare-mongering consumer groups in Europe have led a global backlash against this new technology. The battle has thus far pitted rich American farmers against rich European consumers. But the real losers are the poor farmers and underfed citizens of the tropics, who desperately need all the help that gene science can deliver.
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Lessons of the Grain Embargo
Robert L. Paarlberg
Fall 1980
Summary: The urge to teach someone a lesson seldom inspires sound policy. The lessons learned are too often one's own. So it is with President Carter's 1980 grain embargo. Soviet food supplies have been little affected. U.S. illusions about its own "food power" have been properly dispelled.
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Domesticating Global Management
Robert L. Paarlberg
April 1976
Summary: Only yesterday, globalism was dismissed as an overreaching foreign policy style, a dangerous magnification of national interests and ambitions. How surprising that now, in slightly different form, it should come to be regarded as the best means for nation-states to coexist and prosper in an intimately interconnected world.
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