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Podcast: New Books in American Politics
Episode: Dmitry Grozoubinski, "Why Politicians Lie About Trade...How, and What You Need to Know" (Canbury Press, 2024)
Description: In November, it will be 25 years since the Battle of Seattle â the summit and street fight that marked the end of a half-century of ever-broadening global trade negotiations. Between 2013 and 2016, the same âanti-globalisationâ movement sank a US-EU bid to build a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership but it wasnât until 2016 â with the Brexit referendum and Donald Trumpâs election as president â that the postwar trade liberalisation process threatened to go into reverse.With his trade expertise and a voice made for Twitter, Dmitry Grozoubinski was â as he admits in Why Politicians Lie About Trade: ⌠and What You Need to Know Abo...