* Uses historical analysis to trace the conjunction of trade, environment, and culture * Features case studies collected by the Trade Environment Database Project Exploring the Gaps observes how the growing tensions between economic, ecological, and social factors threaten the ability to make trade and cultural exchanges work to benefit people and the world around them. Lee’s strong argument provides a blueprint to meet the challenges of reintegration at global and local levels. Provides policy prescriptions for the trade regime, insights into the WTO, legal solutions to mend the discord created by trade-liberalization. -- Resource Center of the Americas, June 2001 James R. Lee is the Associate Director for Technical Support and Training for the Center for Teaching Excellence and a faculty member in the School of International Service at American University. As a faculty member, he was one of the first at AU to use the Web as part of teaching. Since then, he has created two online journals "Trade Environment Database" (TED) and the "Inventory of Conflict and Environment" (ICE), and a distance- learning project, the Global Classroom. While he has an abiding interest in the use of new technology, he firmly believes ideas must lead the way. Under a faculty exchange grant, he is a part-time staff member at the US Environmental Protection Agency, working on policy and its relation to international environmental data and statistics. An avid gardener, he is interested in cultivation and how things grow.