The Wind of the Hundred Days
How Washington Mismanaged Globalization

In this collection of public policy essays, Jagdish Bhagwati argues that the true Clinton scandal lay in the administration's mismanagement of globalization - resulting in the paradox of immense domestic policy success combined with dramatic failure on the external front.

In several essays, he shows how free trade and social agendas both could have been pursued successfully if the concerns of human-rights, environmental, cultural, and labour activists had been met through creative programs at appropriate international agencies such as the International Labor Organization instead of the WTO and via trade treaties. Bhagwati also criticizes the claim that "globalization needs a human face," arguing that it already has one. He faults the administration for embracing unsubstantiated anti-globalization rhetoric that has made its own preferred option of pursuing globalization that much more difficult.