Congratulations to Stephen Clarkson on his successful SSHRC

May 8, 2014

Professor Stephen Clarkson has been awarded a 5-year SSHRC grant for his project titled, “North America’s Engagement in a World of Regions: Bilateralism vs. Regionalism in Foreign Investment Protection Regimes (1988-2018)”. Clarkson’s most recent project addressing the inter-regional diffusion of rules and institutions promoting trans-national corporations’ investments in the Euro-American Triangle was supported by the 2013 Konrad Adenauer Research Award sponsored by the German von Humboldt Foundation. Clarkson’s current project will expand upon this research by examining how North America can deal with a changing international system.

Building on four of Clarkson’s books on North American integration and foreign investment protection, published or co-authored from 2002 to 2011, his SSHRC project will determine in what way North America plays a role on the world stage as the United States, Mexico, and Canada negotiate investment rules with counterparts in three types of region overseas — the sophisticated European Union, South America’s three ideologically differentiated sub-regions, and the “trans-region” known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).