Nicolas Lamp
Nicolas Lamp is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University, Canada. His current research focuses on competing narratives about the winners and losers from economic globalization and their implications for trade policy. His co-authored book (with Anthea Roberts) “Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters” was published by Harvard University Press in 2021.
April 30, 2025
Nicolas Lamp
When US President Donald Trump announced the imposition of “reciprocal” tariffs on virtually the entire globe on April 2nd, many observers felt that they were witnessing a historic event—the “end of globalization as we know it”, the starting shot to an economic calamity on the scale of the Covid-19 pandemic or, as the prime minister of…
April 24, 2020
Nicolas Lamp
When Donald Trump was elected to the US presidency, the instinctive reaction of many public officials, trade economists and international economic lawyers was to fight back. And fight back they did – in reports, op-eds, blog posts, and interviews. It did not appear as though it would be particularly hard to win the argument: Trump’s economic illiteracy was…
April 30, 2025
Nicolas Lamp
When US President Donald Trump announced the imposition of “reciprocal” tariffs on virtually the entire globe on April 2nd, many observers felt that they were witnessing a historic event—the “end of globalization as we know it”, the starting shot to an economic calamity on the scale of the Covid-19 pandemic or, as the prime minister of…
April 24, 2020
Nicolas Lamp
When Donald Trump was elected to the US presidency, the instinctive reaction of many public officials, trade economists and international economic lawyers was to fight back. And fight back they did – in reports, op-eds, blog posts, and interviews. It did not appear as though it would be particularly hard to win the argument: Trump’s economic illiteracy was…