Intellectual property rights (IPRs) never received attention in matters of foreigneconomic policy until an agreement on IPRs was brought into the negotiations duringthe Uruguay Round of trade negotiations and subsequent incorporation of the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights...

Canada has been regarded as a model global citizen with firm commitments to multilateralism. It has also played important roles in several international health treaties and conventions in recent years. There are now concerns that its interests in health as a foreign policy goal may be...

In 2019 and the early months of 2020, global trade faced two major albeit very different shocks, namely the United States-China trade war and the cascading response of the countries around the world to the COVID-19 pandemic. While the former situation involved a pair of centrally-placed trading...