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Lauchlan Thomas Munro
Professor, International Development and Global Studies
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Trump, Tariffs and Free Trade, Part 2: Implications for Canada
- Analysis
- April 1, 2025
From 1945 until recently, the United States served as the cornerstone of the liberal rules-based international order in trade, finance and security. Sometimes, the US played this role unwillingly or half-heartedly, sometimes hypocritically. Occasionally, the US acted illegally and …
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Trump, Tariffs and Free Trade, Part 1: What Everybody Got Wrong
- Analysis
- March 31, 2025
Here is a sentence no one could have written in the 1980s: “Canada’s political parties and provincial governments are united in supporting free trade with the United States”. The 1980s featured a ferocious debate on whether free trade with the …
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Myths about the Sustainable Development Goals
- Analysis
- January 18, 2024
As we head into the last half of the UN’s Agenda 2030, my progressive friends and colleagues continue to denounce the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as “neoliberal” or even “the continuation of coloniality and a legitimisation of …
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Ukraine War Scores Indirect Hits on Central Asia
- Analysis
- August 28, 2023
Pointing subtly to the four men working on laptops on the other side of the café, our guide said softly, “Those are the Russians.” In cafés, restaurants and hotel lobbies throughout Central Asia, we saw similar scenes: young to middle-aged …
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