Description:
The case before the U.S. Supreme Court on the right of Massachusetts and several California localities to promulgate regulations on foreign trade—specifically, to impose sanctions on Myanmar, formerly Burma, for human-rights violations—is a clear test of the post-Cold War maxim to "think globally, act locally."
Source/publisher:
Brookings Institute
Date of Publication:
2000-04-17
Date of entry:
2010-09-02
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- Individual Documents
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Language:
English