Dr Razeen Sally

Research Director

Dr. Razeen Sally is Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he has taught since 1993, and head of its International Trade Policy Unit. He is a Visiting Professor at the Institut D’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris, and at Tallinn Technical University in Estonia; and was a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. From 1992-3, he was a Research Fellow at the European Institute of Business Administration [INSEAD] in Fontainebleau, France, and was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College in the USA in 1998. Dr. Sally received his PhD from the LSE in 1992, having previously studied at the University of Frankfurt, the Free University of Berlin and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

He is also Director of Trade Policy at the Commonwealth Business Council in London and of the Commonwealth Business Council/Global Dimensions trade policy programme.

His research has focused on trade policy-making in developing and transitional countries, notably in Eastern Europe and East Asia, and on developing country participation in the WTO. He also writes on the intellectual history of political economy, especially the theory of commercial policy in the classical liberal tradition. Dr. Sally has published Classical Liberalism and International Economic Order: Studies in Theory and Intellectual History [London: Routledge, 1998], and many articles and chapters in books on trade policy.

Research Interests

• Trade-and-investment policies and trade policy-making in developing and transitional countries

• The WTO and developing/transitional countries

• Intellectual history in political economy, especially the classical liberal tradition and the theory of commercial policy

Global Dimensions Research Papers

• Trade Policy Making in Developing Countries and their Participation in the WTO: Differences and Divergence (November 2001)
   
• Rival Visions of Globalisation - Anything New After September 11th? (January 2002)
   
• Globalisation, Governance and Trade Policy: The WTO in Perspective (February 2002)
   
• Multilateral versus Bilateral Trade Liberalization: East Asia and the New Regionalism (April 2002)
   
• Aid, Trade and the Bauer Legacy (June 2002)

Other Research Papers

• Wither the World Trading System (November 2002)
   
• Trade Policy in East Asia: Regionalism Triumphant? (January 2003)
   
• The WTO in 2003: The Rocky Road to Cancun (January 2003)

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