Please respond to the Forum questions listed below. You are expected to give complete answers referring to what you have read in the “Lessons” (reading & resources). Reference to, or the use of critical thinking, analysis, what you have learned in previous courses, the media, and in your professional lives is also expected. Define the subject; make references to what you have read, what you have learned elsewhere, and then form a response.

Instructions: Your initial post should be at least 350 words. Please respond to a least 2 other students. Response should be a minimum of 150 words and include direct questions. When addressing the topic questions, you are to state the question followed by your response. Do this for each question posed.

1) Is it cost effective to spend millions of dollars in an effort to stop a hand-full of people” who are bound to terrorize the United States? What is NAFTA and GATT ? How have they changed throughout Presidential Administrations?

2) What is the “Hardened Border Paradox? What is the “Open Border Paradox? How can both be overcome?

Note this requirement – respond to at least two of your classmate’s posts.

Articles for weekly assignment:

Cervantes-martínez, R., Villaseñor-becerra, J., & Romero-morett, M. (2016). NAFTA trade (and some extra NAFTA trade) in value added and its distribution, 1995-2011. Journal of Economic Structures, 5(1), 1-22.

Flynn, S. E. (2004). Rethinking the role of the U.S. Mexican border in the post-9/11 world. Council on Foreign Relations.

Memorandum for the secretary of state, the attorney general, the secretary of homeland security. (2017). Lanham: Federal Information & News Dispatch, Inc.

Neville, M. K. Jr. (2017). U.S. trade policy relaunch. Journal of International Taxation, 28(2), 30-39.

Office of the United States of the trade representative. (n.d.). North American Free Trade Agreement.

President Trump’s Executive Order. (2017). Addressing trade agreement violations and abuses. (2017). Lanham: Federal Information & News Dispatch, Inc.

President Trump’s Executive Order. (2017). Regarding the omnibus report on significant trade deficits. (2017). Lanham: Federal Information & News Dispatch, Inc.

President Trump’s Executive Order. (2017). Protecting the nation from foreign terrorist entry into the United States. Lanham: Federal Information & News Dispatch, Inc.

President Trump’s Executive Order. (2017). Presidential executive order on establishing enhanced collection and enforcement of antidumping and countervailing duties and violations of trade and customs laws. Lanham: Federal Information & News Dispatch, Inc.

Tomaz, M., Goldstein, J. & Rivers, D. (2005). Membership has its privileges: The impact of GATT on international trade. Stanford University. 1-28.

Wong, K., & Yu, M. (2015). Democracy and accession to GATT/WTO. Review of Development Economics, 19(4), 843 – 859.

Zarate, J. (2017). The future of counterterrorism strategy. Hampton Roads International Security Quarterly, 32.