Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters

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In Six Faces of Globalization (Harvard University Press, 2021), Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp argue 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.

Nicolas Lamp is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University, Ontario. 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. He received his PhD in Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2013. His current research focuses on international trade lawmaking and the competing narratives about the winners and losers from economic globalization. Twitter: @nicolas_lamp

Anthea Roberts is Professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance at Australian National University and author of the prizewinning Is International Law International? In 2019, she was named the world’s leading international law scholar by League of Scholars.