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World Trade Organization-Comment on its Many Challenges

This is an opinion piece published in the Globe and Mail, 3 March 2021. It comments on two main institutional factors that will impact on the future of the WTO, noting these are among the many...

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Reshoring Initiative Targets Behaviours, Not Laws

This is an opinion piece of mine in the Globe & Mail (Toronto), 20 April 2021, commenting on how private sector actions – such as guidelines, standards and certifications – can affect international...

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Trends in Global Governance

This is an overview of the major global governance trends – treaties, governmentally-endorsed business practices and, especially, private sector standards and actions. The latter isn’t largely...

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China & Private Global Regulation

China & Private Global Regulation

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Sanctions in International Trade

This is my comment in the 27 September 2021 Globe & Mail (Toronto) about the growing use of unilateral trade & economic sanctions, a major feature of global  commerce in the 21st centuty....

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Government Advisories & their Global Trade Impact

This commentary in the Globe & Mail, 5 August 2021, deals with the increased significance of government advisories – not legally binding, but having an important effect in the world of...

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Challenges Facing the World Trading Order

World Trading Order Update – January 2022  

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WTO Faces New Challenges in Today’s World

WTO’s Waning Influence – Globe 4 Apr 2022  

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WTO in Limbo – What Next?

WTO In Limbo – Options for Western Countries A commentary on the emergence of the OECD as the most viable institution to conclude new multilateral rules, standards even binding agreements in face of...

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Sanctions – Embedded in the Structure of Global Trade

The Ukraine war has resulted in a huge array of Western sanctions, extraordinarily coordinated, that will be a lasting element in the global trading order. This opinion piece in the Globe in May 2022...

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