In-Person Partner Session

Organizer

Queen's University; International Institute for Sustainable Development

Description

After several years of near-constant upheaval in international economic relations, a new approach to trade policy is taking shape: multipurpose trade policy. This approach no longer prioritizes building an efficient international division of labour through trade liberalization but instead tries to use trade policies to directly achieve other substantive policy objectives, including lifting up workers, addressing inequality, building resilient supply chains, safeguarding national security, and advancing climate objectives.

What are the implications of the shift toward multipurpose trade policy for international trade cooperation? This in-person session will feature a conversation between Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder and Nicolas Lamp, whose recent book (co-authored with Anthea Roberts), Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters, lays out the competing narratives about economic globalization that are informing the shift to multipurpose trade policy.

Speakers

• Moderator: Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, Executive Director, IISD Europe; Senior Director, Economic Law & Policy

• Nicolas Lamp, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University

**Please note this session will be available to in-person attendees only.**

On 16 February 2022, MW Fellows Maria Laura Marceddu (MWP - LAW) and Takuya Onoda (MWP - SPS) had a talk with Nicolas Lamp (Queen's University) and Anthea Roberts (Australian National University) on their book "Six Faces of Globalization. Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters."

https://video.law.hku.hk/six-faces-of-globalisation/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCecJlNEWAc

We wanted to offer something exceptional for the last webinar of 2021, the second year of networking and working almost entirely virtually. That is why we invited Professors Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp, the authors of “Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses and Why it Matters,” recently published by Harvard University Press. This book has received high praise from readers who identify as winners as well as those who identify as losers. In words of Dani Rodrik, the book “helps us not only understand the best version of other sides’ narratives but also move beyond our own conceptual straitjackets.” The authors look at complex issues through dragonfly eyes, allowing us to see many facets of debates and challenges that globalization has faced for some time and intensely since the start of the pandemic. The authors hope that this approach “will enable us to understand not only where we have come apparat but also how we might come back together.” We share that hope!

Speakers:

Anthea Roberts, Professor, School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University

Nicolas Lamp, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, Ontario

Moderator:  

Mia Mikic, Advisor at Large, ARTNeT and Fellow, The University of Waikato, New Zealand

“Six Faces of Globalization”

Directorate-General for Trade

European Commission

When it comes to the politics of free trade and open borders, the camps are dug in, producing a kaleidoscope of claims and counterclaims, unlikely alliances and unexpected foes. But what exactly are we fighting about? And how might we approach these issues more productively? In Six Faces of Globalization, ANU Professor Anthea Roberts and her co-author Nicolas Lamp cut through the complexity, providing an essential guide to the intractable public debates about the virtues and vices of economic globalization. Join us for a presentation and panel discussion to mark the release of Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters (Harvard University Press, October 2021). The event is opened by Chancellor Julie Bishop, chaired by CAP Dean Helen Sullivan, and closed by Vice Chancellor Brian Schmidt. It will feature a presentation by Professor Anthea Roberts and comments by Professor Hilary Charlesworth, Richard Maude, Heather Smith and Jason Yatsen Li.

Book Launch: Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters
Nicolas Lamp, Queen’s University

Nicolas Lamp joined the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University in 2014. In 2020, he was cross-appointed to the Queen’s School of Policy Studies. Since 2019, he has also been the Director of the Annual Queen’s Institute on Trade Policy, a professional training course for Canadian trade officials. Prior to joining Queen’s, Associate Professor Lamp worked as a Dispute Settlement Lawyer at the Appellate Body Secretariat of the World Trade Organization, where he advised the Members of the Appellate Body on legal issues arising in appellate proceedings under the WTO’s dispute settlement mechanism. Associate Professor Lamp received his PhD in Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2013. His current research focuses on competing narratives about the winners and losers from economic globalization. His co-authored book (with Anthea Roberts) on Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters has just been published by Harvard University Press. Twitter: @nicolas_lamp

The book argues that we cannot understand the current debates about economic globalization without an analytical framework that allows us to distinguish the main narratives that compete in the debate. The book maps the main narratives that are driving the pushback against economic globalization, including narratives about corporate power, Sino-US great power competition, resilience, and sustainability, and examines how they relate to each other. It then shows how the narratives allow us to appreciate the key challenges of our time – from the COVID-19 pandemic to climate change and the future of economic globalization – in all their kaleidoscopic complexity.

Due to the current public health emergency, the PIL Discussion Group series for Michaelmas Term 2021 will be held online. RSVP is necessary for each event and a link to the Form will be available each week. The link will be provided in each event listed below and prior to the seminar, you will be sent a link to join the discussion. Please note that if you complete the form after the deadline of noon each Wednesday, you will not receive the link to join.

The Public International Law Discussion Group at the University of Oxford is a key focal point for PIL@Oxford and hosts a weekly speaker event. Topics involve contemporary and challenging issues in international law. Speakers include distinguished international law practitioners, academics, and legal advisers from around the world.

The discussion group's meetings are part of the programme of the British Branch of the International Law Association and are supported by the Law Faculty and Oxford University Press.

The speaker will commence at 12:45 and speak for about forty minutes, allowing about twenty five minutes for questions and discussion. The meeting should conclude before 2:00.

Practitioners, academics and students from within and outside the University of Oxford are all welcome.

“Six Faces of Globalization”, London School of Economics