European Union May Ban Americans Due To Failure To Control Virus

EU Travel Recommendations May Impede Americans And Russians by Reuters/New York Times.  June 24, 2020.

Resilience, Regional Trade Blocs, Redundancy May Characterize The World Economy After Coronavirus

It's The End Of The World Economy As We Know It by Neil Irwin.  The New York Times.  April 16, 2020.

Trump Administration Approach To Defense Production Act Raises Questions About Medical Exports

Trump Seeks To Block 3M Mask Exports And Grab Masks From Its Overseas Customers by Ana Swanson, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Maggie Haberman.

Nafta-Related Effects?: Obesity And Lessened Child Poverty

A Nasty, Nafta-Related Surprise:  Mexico's Soaring Obesity by Andrew Jacobs And Matt Richtel.  The New York Times.  December 11, 2017. 

Book Review--Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease

When Commerce and Illness Intersect by Bryan Burrough.  Review of Contagion:  How Commerce Has Spread Disease by Mark Harrison.  The New York Times.  February 2, 2013.

This book looks at almost every significant outbreak of cross-border disease since the black death focusing on the interplay between disease and commerce, politics and international diplomacy.  He devotes much attention to quarantine along with its use in diplomacy.  He views the most likely source of pandemics as huge factory farms that breed animal-to-human microbes.