In early 2021, I was asked by The Commonwealth Secretariat (ComSec) an intergovernmental organization based in London, to write a research paper to document how much official development assistance (ODA) – aid money – had […]
Megatrends and their implications for international trade and investment
This article focuses on three over-arching megatrends and their implications for the global trading system and cross-border investment flows. The first of these are the geopolitical tensions that we have all been living with now […]
Implementation of national broadband plans
Agreed Regulatory Principles and their Evolution This paper is one of four that I wrote while I was in residence at the Georgetown University Law Center‘s Institute of International Economic Law, then still headed by the seminal […]
Taiwan’s Place in asian economic regionalism
Two think-pieces on how Taiwan should position itself in response to RCEP and the CPTPP
Technological Decoupling between the US and China
An e-book on how to lose the race for technological pre-eminence
international trade in goods
A lecture on recent developments affecting international trade in goods
Cross-Border Data Flows: The impact of data localisation on IoT
Some research and advocacy on what governments can do to avoid undermining the benefits of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
The use and abuse of the national security exception
Some thinking and advocacy on the need to adhere to the rules of the multilateral trading system
Economic recovery is too important to leave to the national security hawks
Some thinking and advocacy on the need to balance different interests when formulating foreign economic policy for the post-COVID recovery
Mike Pompeo’s ‘Clean Networks Initiative’
Some thinking and advocacy on an idea that should be relegated to the dustbin of history