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Trilateral Commission

An informal group of 300 to 400 people from North America, Europe, and East Asia who meet several times a year to discuss public policy with an eye toward promoting globalization and integration. Membership is by invitation and current government officials are excluded from membership. However, many members go on to become high political executives. The Trilateral Commission has been controversial throughout its history, with some accusing it of promoting a one-world government. It was established in 1973 by David Rockefeller. See also: Council on Foreign Relations.

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(26) Citado en Louis Belanger, "Canada, Mexico and the future of trilateralism in North America", op.

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Public attitude in Nepal towards trilateralism is yet to match Prachanda's optimistic calculations.

Nepal: Deciphering Prachanda's "Trilateral" Strategy to Balance India and China

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Emerging from behind the U.S. shield: Japan's strategy of dynamic deterrence and defense forces

The reluctance of the Conservative government to become too involved in municipal concerns might stimulate the FCM to complement its advocacy role by developing its capacity to "provide centralized information and policy research facilities" (Stevenson and Gilbert 2005: 534), as requested by its members in the survey taken when the FCM was at its lowest ebb following the demise of trilateralism as a constitutional option in the 1980s.

The evolving role of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities

Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commisstion and elite planning for world management.

Stossel in America: a case study of the neoliberal/neoconservative assault on public schools and teachers

North America has become, at best, the site of two sets of bilateral relations (U.S.-Canada and U.S.-Mexico) rather than trilateralism. (101)

Regionalisms migrations and fortress (North) America

It is puzzling that the two countries with the largest trading relationship in the world and ones with vast ecological capabilities and interdependencies should have waited until the arrival of Mexico and the trilateralism it brought to forge their direct international institutional trade-environment link.

NAFTA's trade-environment regime and its Commission for Environmental Cooperation: contributions and challenges ten years on *

The emergent trilateralism often does converge on state-of-the-art U.S.

Multinational enterprise strategy and the NAFTA trade and environment regime

(1980): Trilateralism, (South End Press: Boston), p.

Whose human rights?

This institution, which operated in the absence of a body of codified interstate law, is best characterized as "authoritative trilateralism."

The constitutional structure of international society and the nature of fundamental institutions

Is this kind of trilateralism simply a more sophisticated version of Eurocentrism?