The History of GATT and the Current Crises in the Global Order

Francine McKenzie Western University Critics of the leadership and competence of the World Health Organization (WHO) during the Covid-19 pandemic have called for the fundamental reform of the organization. Before the pandemic, the dispute resolution… More

Imagining Markets: Conceptions of Empire/Commonwealth, Europe and China in Britain’s economic future since the 1870s

2nd workshop, London, September 2015- report Senate House has featured in many guises from being the supposed model for the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984 to Bertie Wooster’s New York apartment block in… More

Does Trade Promote Peace? An Historical and Global Perspective

Lucia Coppolaro and Francine McKenzie Editors of A Global History of Trade and Conflict Since 1500 (Palgrave, 2013) In the early 17th century, Jan Pieterszoon Coen, the Dutch East India Company’s governor-general in the Indies,… More