WHITE PAPERS
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| June 21, 2007 |
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Europe’s Warnings on Climate Change Belie More Nuanced Concerns | L.A. Kogan | |
| Sept. 21, 2006 |
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Brazil's 'Open and Universal Access' Agenda Undermines its Own
Technological Future
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International Journal of Economic Development, Vol. 8, Nos. 1-2 | Dr. Pat Choate (Foreword) |
| Sept. 21, 2006 |
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Exclusive Private Property is Indispensable to Brazil's Economic Development | International Journal of Economic Development | Prof. O. Lee Reed (Introduction) |
| Sept. 21, 2006 |
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Incentive-less Innovation is Not a Viable Economic Development Model for LDCs | International Journal of Economic Development | Dr. John Kilama (Preface) |
| Sept. 21, 2006 |
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Rediscovering the Value of Intellectual Property Rights: How Brazil's Recognition and Protection of Foreign IPRs Can Stimulate Domestic Innovation and Generate Economic Growth | International Journal of Economic Development | L.A. Kogan |
| Summary: IP-Based Innovation, Not IP Opportunism, is in Brazil's Best Interests | ||||
| Dec. 2005 |
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Precautionary Preference: How Europe Employs Disguised Regulatory Protectionism To Weaken American Free Enterprise |
International Journal of Economic Development, Vol. 7, Nos. 2-3 (2005) |
L.A. Kogan |
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Summary:
Europe seeks to reform U.S. law and business practices by
establishing its Precautionary Principle as U.S. federal,
state & local law. If successful, Europe will undermine the U.S.
national economy and America's comparative advantage in
international trade. This article documents precisely how Europe
seeks to accomplish its objective, how it significantly threatens
the American legal and free enterprise systems, and why Americans
must prevent the Precautionary principle from ever becoming U.S.
law.
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| Dec. 2005 |
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Will Hope and the Regulatory Orthodoxy of RGGI and The Kyoto Protocol Lead Us to the Economic Abyss? |
L.A. Kogan/ S.Pachovski |
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Summary:
ITSSD explores how the true believers of the
Kyoto Protocol and the U.S. RGGI, who have faithfully embraced the
fear-based orthodoxy of the precautionary principle, may well lead
us off the cliff of rationality and into the macro-economic abyss.
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| Nov. 2005 |
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RGGI is Europe’s ‘Back-Door-Man’ - How Europe Relies on the
Northeast Greenhouse Gas Initiative To Influence U.S. Climate Change
Policy |
L.A.
Kogan/ S.Pachovski |
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Summary: ITSSD is
calling public attention to the impending Regional Greenhouse Gas
Initiative (RGGI), a secret regulatory regime designed by nine
northeastern governors that will significantly raise energy, goods
and services prices for regional consumers, without delivering the
environmental benefits promised. After reviewing the record, ITSSD
concluded that Europe is relying on the costly RGGI to influence
U.S. climate change policy through the 'back-door'. |
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| Nov. 2005 |
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Exporting Precaution: How Europe’s Risk-Free Regulatory Agenda Threatens American Free Enterprise | L.A. Kogan | |
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Summary:
This monograph documents the rise in Europe of the so-called
“precautionary principle” and its proponents’ plans to export this
regulatory approach to U.S. and our trading partners. This
principle eschews science-based evaluation of the benefits and costs
of regulation in favor of environmental, health, and safety rules
which seek to eliminate every possible risk from economic conduct.
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| July 2005 |
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Precautionary Preference: How Europe’s New Regulatory Protectionism Imperils American Free Enterprise |See executive summary| | L.A. Kogan | |
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Summary:
This paper documents in detail how the EU Commission, the UN and the
EU-funded environmental and corporate accountability/social
responsibility movements are working together with like-minded U.S.
politicians and American NGOs to systematically inject the
precautionary principle and Euro-style CSR into U.S. law and
business practices. |
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| June 2005 |
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L.A.
Kogan/ S.Pachovski |
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Summary: With a number of other non-profit
groups, ITSSD is calling attention to Brazil’s threats to break US
patents on American AIDS drugs used as part of Brazil’s
government-funded treatment program. After reviewing the initial
official statements coming out of Brazil, ITSSD concluded that
Brazil would be in violation of the Trade Related Aspects of
Intellectual Property or TRIPS Treaty, if it pursues this course of
action.
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| Apr. 2004 |
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‘Enlightened’ Environmentalism or Disguised
Protectionism? Assessing the Impact of EU Precaution-Based Standards
on Developing Countries. |See executive summary| |
NFTC | L. A. Kogan |
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Summary: This report
shows how the European Union’s imposition of the precautionary
principle on developing countries located in Africa, Asia and Latin
America actually diminishes their prospects for social and economic
advancement and health and environmental protection. In particular,
it focuses on EU support for and implementation of the UN POPs,
Rotterdam PIC, and Basel Conventions, and the proposed EU REACH
chemicals regime.
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| Sept. 2003 |
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“UNSCIENTIFIC ‘PRECAUTION’: EUROPE’S CAMPAIGN TO ERECT NEW FOREIGN
TRADE BARRIERS” a white paper prepared for the National Foreign
Trade Council which was published by the Washington Legal
Foundation. |
NFTC | L. A. Kogan |
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Summary: This report
thoroughly documents the European Union’s long-term strategy to
change how international trade rules and international law evaluate
whether a domestic regulation or standard constitutes a ‘non-tariff
barrier’ to trade. It reviews in great detail how the EU intends to
force international acceptance of its ‘unscientific’ precautionary
principle.
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| Aug. 2003 |
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EU Regulation, Standardization and the Precautionary
Principle: The Art of Crafting a Three-Dimensional Trade Strategy
that Ignores Sound Science
|See executive summary| |
NFTC | L. A. Kogan |
| Summary: This report offers powerful evidence of the European Union’s clandestine efforts to redefine WTO law in order to employ the precautionary principle globally. It discusses in detail how the EU seeks to inject the precautionary principle into the WTO agreements, the international standards development process and the bilateral and regional trade, aid and capacity building agreements it has reached with developing countries. | ||||
| May 2003 |
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"Looking Behind the Curtain: The Growth of Trade
Barriers that Ignore Sound Science" |See executive summary| |
NFTC | L. A. Kogan |
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Summary: This report
identifies a major new trend in the use of non-tariff trade barriers
– burdensome national regulations and standards that ignore sound
science – that effectively deny market access to multiple US and
foreign products. It uncovers evidence of circumstances where
national and regional regulations and standards: 1) are based on the
precautionary principle rather than on rational and balanced
scientific risk assessment; 2) are not based on or consistent with agreed upon international standards; and 3) are not developed transparently with participation and input from major stakeholders.
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