TRADE RESEARCH

Trade Book Talks 

Our Trade Book Talks delve into timely research-driven perspectives on global trade issues for an audience of academics, policymakers and trade practitioners. Each moderated session features authors of recently published books that provide insight into the evolving global trade landscape.
Trade Book Talks

UPCOMING EVENT

International Trade Essentials: An Integrated Approach Across Business, Economics, and Law

Trade restrictions, sustainable, development and law
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Siyao Li on Beyond Capital: How Foreign Investors Transform Emerging Economies

Discover insights from a Hinrich Foundation Trade Book Talk featuring Dr. Siyao Li, author of Closing the Institutional Gap: How foreign investors shape domestic institutions in Emerging Markets. The discussion explores how multinational companies leverage intangible assets, technological advantages and diplomatic power to actively reform domestic legal frameworks and drive intellectual property enforcement in emerging markets.

Register now to be among the first to access the Trade Book Talk on 11 November 2026.

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MOST RECENT

Jonas Gamso on Multinational Corporations and Climate Change

Jonas Gamso on Multinational Corporations and Climate Change

The Hinrich Foundation Trade Book Talk hosted a discussion with Dr. Jonas Gamso, author of Multinational Corporations and Climate Change: Risks, Responsibilities and Resilience. Moderated by Alex Boome, Hinrich Foundation Trade Education Program Director, the session explored how climate disruption is transforming international business and global supply chains. The conversation analyzed a five-part strategic risk framework, examined competitive advantages in emerging green markets and provided practical insights on unlocking foreign direct investment for climate-vulnerable nations.

Trade AND Environmental sustainability

Jonas Gamso

02 Oct 2026

3 min read

Hinrich Foundation Trade Book Talks - Jonas Gamso on Multinational Corporations and Climate Change

MORE TRADE BOOK TALKS

Damilola Olawuyi on Trade Restrictions, Sustainable Development and the Law

Damilola Olawuyi on Trade Restrictions, Sustainable Development and the Law

The Hinrich Foundation Trade Book Talk hosted a discussion with Dr. Damilola S. Olawuyi, co-editor of Trade Restrictions, Sustainable Development, and the Law. Moderated by Alex Boome, Hinrich Foundation Trade Education Program Director, the session explored how blockades and embargoes critically impact the three pillars of sustainable development. The conversation analyzed the Qatar blockade, examined international dispute resolution limitations, and provided practical recommendations for building national trade resilience.

Trade Governance

Damilola S. Olawuyi

09 Sept 2026

2 min read

Damilola Olawuyi on Trade Restrictions, Sustainable Development and the Law

Nuntana Udomkit on International Trade Essentials: An Integrated Approach Across Business, Economics, and Law

Nuntana Udomkit on International Trade Essentials: An Integrated Approach Across Business, Economics, and Law

The Hinrich Foundation Trade Book Talk hosted a discussion with Dr. Nuntana Udomkit, author of International Trade Essentials. Moderated by Alex Boome, Hinrich Foundation Trade Education Program Director, the session explored why global trade remains deeply relevant to consumers, expanding firms, and sovereign nations. The conversation dismantled traditional silos separating business, macroeconomics, and law, examined cross-border regulatory realities, and provided key recommendations for aligning global commerce with long-term sustainability.

Trade workforce and education

Nuntuna Udomkit

17 Aug 2026

1 min read

Nuntana Udomkit on International Trade Essentials

Allen Morrison on Enterprise China: Adopting a Competitive Strategy for Business Success

Allen Morrison on Enterprise China: Adopting a Competitive Strategy for Business Success

The Hinrich Foundation Trade Book Talk hosted a discussion with Allen Morrison, co-author of Enterprise China: Adopting a Competitive Strategy for Business Success. Drawing on insights from the book, the session explored China's uniquely competitive and rapidly evolving business environment. The conversation linked historical context to China's current strategy, examined faulty assumptions underlying Western business approaches and provided key recommendations for survival and growth in the global market.

Moderated by Alex Boome, Hinrich Foundation Trade Education Program Director.

Industrial competitiveness and economic development

Allen Morrison

29 May 2026

2 min read

Empires of Trade book

Jonathan Saunders on Empires of Trade: The Ruthless Battle for Global Wealth

The Hinrich Foundation Trade Book Talk hosted a discussion with Jonathan Saunders, author of Empires of Trade: The Ruthless Battle for Global Wealth. Drawing on insights from the book, the session explored how trade, resources and negotiation have shaped global power from ancient markets to today’s large corporations. It will also link these historical trends to current challenges, including supply chain disruptions and the increasing role of economic strategy in global affairs.

Moderated by Alex Boome, Hinrich Foundation Trade Education Program Director.

Geopolitics of Trade

Jonathan Saunders

26 May 2026

2 min read

Marc Levinson - The box and Outside the Box

Jonathan Saunders on Empires of Trade: The Ruthless Battle for Global Wealth

Marc Levinson on geopolitics, shipping, and the impact of their collision on global trade

The Hinrich Foundation hosted a Trade Book Talk for a discussion with Marc Levinson, author of The Box and Outside The Box to explore how the shipping container revolutionized global trade and how globalization is now shifting from the movement of goods to the flow of services, information, and ideas.

Moderated by Chuin Wei Yap, Hinrich Foundation Program Director, International Trade Research, the discussion explored the rise of global supply chains, the forces reshaping them today, and what the next phase of globalization could mean for businesses and policymakers.

Trade Logistics and Services

Marc Levinson

23 April 2026

2 min read

Marc Levinson on geopolitics, shipping, and the impact of their collision on global trade

Marc Levinson - The box and Outside the Box

Dinny McMahon on China's Great Wall of Debt

The Hinrich Foundation hosted a Trade Book Talk on 19 March 2026 with Dinny McMahon, Head of China Markets Research at the advisory Trivium China. Dinny is the author of the book China's Great Wall of Debt: Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loads and the End of the Chinese Miracle.

Moderated by Chuin Wei Yap, Hinrich Foundation Program Director, International Trade Research, the discussion will provide an inside look at the risks behind China’s rapid growth and why they matter for the global economy.

INDUSTRIAL COMPETITIVENESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Dinny McMahon

19 Mar 2026

2 min read

Dinny McMahon on China's Great Wall of Debt

Dinny McMahon on China's Great Wall of Debt

Peter Draper on The Elgar Companion to the G7

The Hinrich Foundation hosted a Trade Book Talk on 12 February 2026 with Peter Draper, Professor and Executive Director of the Institute for International Trade at the University of Adelaide. Draper is co-editor with Andreas Freytag of The Elgar Companion to the G7.

Moderated by Chuin Wei Yap, the discussion examined the G7’s 50-year legacy, its responses to global crises and its continued relevance in today’s fractured world economy.

TRADE GOVERNANCE

Peter Draper

23 Jan 2026

2 min read

Peter Draper on The Elgar Companion to the G7

Peter Draper on the Elgar Companion to the G7

Michael Pembroke on Silk Silver Opium: The Trade with China that Changed History

The Hinrich Foundation hosted a book talk with Michael Pembroke on 23 January 2026. Michael is a writer and historian working at the intersection of law, global affairs and history. He is a former NSW Supreme Court judge, Chair of Red Room Poetry, and an award-listed author of five books on the forces that shape our world. The Trade Book Talk features his new book Silk Silver Opium: The Trade with China that Changed History.

GEOPOLITICS OF TRADE

Michael Pembroke

23 Jan 2026

2 min read

Michael Pembroke on Silk Silver Opium: The Trade with China that Changed History

Michael Pembroke on Silk Silver Opium: The Trade with China that Changed History

David Marsh on Can Europe Survive? The Story of a Continent in a Fractured World

The Hinrich Foundation hosted a book talk with David Marsh, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), on 24 November, featuring his new book Can Europe Survive? The Story of a Continent in a Fractured World.

GEOPOLITICS OF TRADE

David Marsh

02 Dec 2025

2 min read

can europe survive , David Marsh

David Marsh on Can Europe Survive? The Story of a Continent in a Fractured World

Alex Capri on Techno-Nationalism: How It’s Reshaping Trade, Geopolitics, and Society

Alex Capri on Techno-Nationalism: How It’s Reshaping Trade, Geopolitics, and Society

Hinrich Foundation Research Fellow Alex Capri’s new book, Techno-Nationalism: How It’s Reshaping Trade, Geopolitics, and Society, is available now. The book draws largely from Capri’s years of research commissioned by the Foundation on these themes.

GEOPOLITICS OF TRADE

Alex Capri

07 Nov 2024

1 min read

Alex Capri on Techno-Nationalism: How It’s Reshaping Trade, Geopolitics, and Society

The World Turned Upside Down: America, China, and the Struggle for Global Leadership

The World Turned Upside Down: America, China, and the Struggle for Global Leadership

In this well-received book, Clyde Prestowitz describes the key challenges posed by China and the strategies America and other liberal democracies must adopt to meet them. He argues that these approaches must be more sophisticated and comprehensive than a narrowly targeted trade war, and that they don't have to contravene international or domestic law.

GEOPOLITICS OF TRADE

Clyde V. Prestowitz and Jr.

07 Dec 2020

2 min read

The world turned upside down

Where Great Powers Meet: America and China in Southeast Asia

Where Great Powers Meet: America and China in Southeast Asia

In his new book, Where Great Powers Meet: America and China in Southeast Asia, Professor Shambaugh examines how the United States and China are engaged in a broad-gauged and global competition for power.

GEOPOLITICS OF TRADE

David Shambaugh

19 Nov 2020

1 min read

Where great powers meet

China, Trade and Power

China, Trade and Power

Stewart Paterson's timely book, “China, Trade and Power: Why the West’s Economic Engagement Has Failed”, promotes reasoned and informed debate on the trade relationship between the West and China.

GEOPOLITICS OF TRADE

Steward Paterson

12 Sept 2016

2 min read

China trade and power

Developing China: The Remarkable Impact of Foreign Direct Investment

Developing China: The Remarkable Impact of Foreign Direct Investment

Commissioned by the Hinrich Foundation to Professor Michael J. Enright, this book provides a powerful analysis of China’s policies toward foreign direct investment.

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT

Michael Enright

12 Sept 2016

2 min read

Developing China: The Remarkable Impact of Foreign Direct Investment