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Clean Energy Research Group,

PRESS ARTICLES

Why Canada is off track to meet its clean energy goals, The Hill Times, May 29, 2024
The Failure of CSR and SRI: What retirement investors can do, interview with Jeffrey Snyder, the Broadcast Retirement Network, https://broadcastretirementnetwork.com/
ESG investing has made little impact on the green energy transition so far. Why is that?, The Conversation, Jun 7, 2023
Interview with CityTV on the Taliban takeover of Afghansistan, Aug. 20, 2021
The Utterly Predictable Demise of Nation-Building in Afghanistan: Lessons for the Future, June 2021
Interview with Energi Media on Canada's missed geothermal opportunities, Mar. 27, 2021
On the implications of the Biden Presdency for Canada, Radio-Canada, Jan. 19, 2021
Commentary on the storming of the US Capitol, Vancouver Sun, Jan. 7, 2021
Commentary on US election, on unique aspects of Trumpian populism and failure of polls, Yahoo News, Nov. 4, 2020
Commentary on US election, on prospects of Biden victory, Yahoo News, Nov. 3, 2020
Trump's Foreign Policy: Incoherent Isolation and the Art of the Non-Deal, PMP, Oct. 25, 2020
Corporate Social Responsibility, a Hollow Commitment,The Conversation, Oct. 21, 2020
Commentary for CTV on US election, Oct. 2020
Trump's Economic Performance: Facts, Lies, and Statistics, PMP, Sept. 2020
After Trump: the Coming Progressive Wave, The Conversation, Aug. 2020

RECENT BOOKS, SPECIAL EDITIONS and Articles

Link to My Published Books available on Amazon.com
Cooperatives Across Clusters, Oregon State U. Press, 2024
The Smoke and Mirrors Game of Global CSR Reporting, Anthem, 2023
Reducing Manufacturing and Environmental Pollution int he Global South, Journal of Developing Societies, with Henrique Pacini, 2022.
Improving Mining Community Benefits Through Better Monitoring and Evaluation, with James Busumtwi-Sam, Resources Policy, 2021
Global Political Economy: Theory and Practice, Routledge, 2020
Corporate Social Responsibility in the South: Why the State is the Central Issue, Journal of Developing Societies, Fall 2020.
The Hollow Core: Breakdowns in global governance of CSR, Global Affairs, July 2020.
The Great Disruption: Explaining the Populist Forces Behind Trump, Brexit, and LePen available through Peter Lang Publishers
The Failure of Financial Regulation: Why a Major Crisis Could Happen Again, Palgrave MacMillan, IPE Series
The Emergence of the Sharing Economy: Implications for Development
Broken Windows: Why Culture Matters in Corruption Reform
Governing Corporate Social Responsibility in the Apparel Industry After Rana Plaza available at Palgrave MacMillan
What Makes Clusters Competitive? Cases from the Global Wine Industry available at McGill-Queen's University Press
Three Perspectives on Irrationality: The Book of Rules featured in The Vancouver Sun

FREELY AVAILABLE EXCERPTS

Can biofuels be an engine for growth in small developing economies-the case of Paraguay? (2011)
Food Demand and Coping with Its Growth (2011)
The Brave New World of International Education (2003)

Thoughts & Discussions

2022 Cranberry Cluster Industry Report Executive Summary
Million $ Book podcast, with Mike Fallat, on Global Political Economy: Theory and Practise
Mining Community Benefits in Ghana: A Case of Unrealized Potential
The Strategic Quagmire: Why Nation Building is Failing in Afghanistan
Boots On or Off the Ground: Some considerations about intervention in the Middle East
Ending the Conflict in Syria
Ideas for Reviving Western Economies
Professionalizing Academics
Proposal for a Global Welfare State
Explaining Trump: Disruptions in the World Economy will Extend Beyond his Candidacy
What Is The Price of Winning? An argument against youth football

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