What it reveals about US international economic policy

Speaker:

Paul Nadeau

 

5 March 2025 at 12:15 (doors open at 12:00)

Brown bag lunch

Temple University Japan room 301

1-14-29 Taishido, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo

東京都世田谷区太子堂1-14-29

      

Overview

Nippon Steel's attempted acquisition of U.S. Steel saw President Joe Biden officially block the sale on January 2. While Biden's decision wasn't a surprise given the political context of a fraught election year, it also wasn't a one-off decision in an isolated case and represents the latest step of using national security concerns to seal off the U.S. economy. The story of Nippon Steel revealed many of the weaknesses in U.S. international economic policy and builds on patterns of behavior stretching across different administrations and with unclear implications for what happens next as the Trump administration prioritizes foreign investment into the United States. This talk will attempt to disentangle the political concerns over the Nippon Steel deal from the wider structural concerns related to the role of national security and executive authority in U.S. trade policy to help better understand and manage the risks of foreign investment in the United States.

 

Speaker

Paul Nadeau is an adjunct assistant professor at Temple University's Japan campus, and co-founder & editor of Tokyo Review. He was previously a private secretary with the Japanese Diet and as a member of the foreign affairs and trade staff of Senator Olympia Snowe, as well as a trade policy researcher with the Scholl Chair in International Business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He holds a B.A. from the George Washington University, an M.A. in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, and a PhD from the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Public Policy. His research focuses on the intersection of domestic and international politics, with specific focuses on political partisanship and international trade policy. His commentary has appeared on BBC News, New York Times, Nikkei Asian Review, Japan Times, and more.

Moderator

Robert Dujarric, Temple University Japan.

 

Contac/RSVP robert.dujarric@tuj.temple.edu