BA (University of Toronto), MA (Queen’s University)

As director of the Robarts Centre between 1994 and 2003, he established the Centre’s reputation in the field of public policy. A major contributor to public policy debates, Daniel Drache has written widely on globalization and the limits of markets, trade blocs, employment and economic integration. He has written or edited (with others) twelve books in the recent period. Among his recent publications are: The Market or the Public Domain: Global Governance and the Asymmetry of Power, Routledge, 2001; Health Reform: Public Success, Private Failure (Routledge 1999, and Terry Sullivan); States Against Markets: The Limits of Globalization (Routledge 1996, and Robert Boyer); and The Changing Workplace: Reshaping Canada’s Industrial Relations System (Lorimer 1994, and Harry Glasbeek) Most recently, he has focused his attention on the WTO, poverty eradication and the Doha Development Round.

His work has been recognized internationally and he has been a research associate at the European University Institute, Florence; a professor invité at CEPREMAP-CNRS, Paris; a visiting scholar at Macquarrie University, the University of Western Sydney and the AGSM, University of New South Wales and a guest lecturer at UNAM, Mexico. In June 2003 he was the Australia-Canada Millennium Lecturer in Sydney Australia. He has won major SSHRC research awards and is currently principal investigator, along with co-investigators Seth Feldman and Fred Fletcher of a SSHRC Research Development Initiative, entitled, “Global Cultural Flows, New Information Technologies and Re-Imagining the National Community in 2003. His current research is on the political economy of dissent and the emergence of counterpublics post-Cancun.

As well, Professor Drache is a regular commentator on national news for the CBC and other networks. His latest book is entitled Borders Matter: Homeland Security and the Search for North America, Halifax: Fernwood Books, 2004. Here is a link to Prof. Drache's new Book, entitled Borders Matter: Homeland Security and the Search for North America.

Selected Publications

For working papers on Trade Politics, Counterpublics and Global Governance, go to http://www.robarts.yorku.ca/projects/wto/index.html.

For working papers on Global Cultural Flows, New Information Technologies and Re-Imagining National Communities, go to http://www.robarts.yorku.ca/projects/global/index.html

Drache can be contacted at drache@yorku.ca; by phone 1.416.736.5415; by fax 1.416.736.5739