William Krist is currently a Senior Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center.  For the past three years he has been working on a book on U.S. trade policy including its impact on economic development, the environment, U.S. foreign policy, and employment here in the United States.  It is expected that a draft of the book will be completed in early 2012.In addition to his...

My fascination with watercourses probably dates to a childhood spent playing along the bayous of Houston, Texas. My academic interest in history only emerged as an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin, when I chucked my undergraduate journalism major to study history, a field that I found more useful at explaining the complexities of the world around me. I also had a more general int...

John W. Sewell is a Senior Scholar at The Wilson Center. His current research analyzes how globalization has affected American national interests in the developing world and the changes in U.S. development policy that are needed to deal with the challenges of the 21st Century. He has recently published a Wilson Center policy paper entitled "The Realpolitik of Ending Poverty: An Action Plan fo...