Even with the recent rise in protectionism, that is not on the cards.
Let's avoid steps that could result in protectionism that would further contract global trade.
We now face the prospect of still more protectionism that could destabilise the world economy.
Brown said the world risked a new era of protectionism that would harm developing countries.
There are no signs as yet of the sort of protectionism that gave us the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariff.
And Japan's success was built in part on protectionism that would not be tolerated by today's world trading system.
Labor standards, argued Pakistan's trade negotiator, Munir Akram, are "a new protectionism" that threaten to "bedevil all future trade negotiations".
But there are signs of international weakness and of growing protectionism that can only hurt global output.
On the negative side, Mr Edwards also helped to fan the flames of protectionism that are burning far too brightly in the Democratic Party.
Not everyone is as enthusiastic about Latin America's prescriptions, including the trade protectionism that still pervades in a number of big economies.
But even if these anti-takeover movements do prove futile, and don't trigger a broader move to protectionism, that still doesn't make them benign.
