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Kevin Gallagher

Professor of International Relations, BU Pardee School of Global Studies College of Arts & Sciences at Boston University

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Dr. Kevin P. Gallagher is a professor of global development policy at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, where he co-directs the Global Economic Governance Initiative and the Global Development Policy Program.

Kevin P. Gallagher is the author or co-author of six books: The China Triangle: Latin America’s China Boom and the Fate of the Washington Consensus; Ruling Capital: Emerging Markets and the Reregulation of Cross-Border Finance; The Clash of Globalizations: Essays on Trade and Development Policy; The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization(with Roberto Porzecanski); The Enclave Economy: Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Mexico’s Silicon Valley(with Lyuba Zarsky); Free Trade and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond.

Gallagher has edited or co-edited a number of books, including Rethinking Foreign Investment for Sustainable Development: Lessons from Latin America(with Daniel Chudnovsky) and Putting Development First: the Importance of Policy Space in the WTO and IFIs.

He is the co-chair of the Task Force on Regulating Capital Flows and has served as an advisor to the Department of State and the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States, as well as to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Gallagher has been a visiting or adjunct professor at the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico; Tsinghua University in China, and the Center for State and Society in Argentina.

Gallagher is co-editor of the Review of International Political Economy and writes regular columns in the Financial Times and the Guardian.

Follow him on twitter @KevinPGallagher.

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Trump team bashes China but offers no alternative in African nations

March 15, 2018

The Hill Kevin Gallagher The now former Secretary of State Tillerson’s talking points for his hastily-arranged trip to Africa last week accused China of fostering dependency, with “opaque contracts, predatory loan practices, and corrupt deals that mire nations in debt,” hurting growth and local employment… Expert quote: “The Trump administration would have a better argument […]

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China sees an opening as Trump loses confidence of Latin America

February 9, 2018

CNN Money Kevin Gallagher Trump has imposed tariffs on Latin American countries, demanded that Mexico pay for a border wall, put thousands of people at risk for deportation and proposed to cut American aid to the region… Expert quote: “Literally and figuratively, the Trump administration is building walls against Latin America. The Chinese are proposing […]

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Tillerson to Latin America: Beware of China

February 3, 2018

The Atlantic Kevin Gallagher Rex Tillerson has made 18 foreign trips since he was confirmed as secretary of state on February 1, 2017: Only one them, a two-day visit to Mexico City early in his tenure, was south of the U.S. border… Expert quote: “Neither China nor the U.S. can make the region prosperous. The […]

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Latin America Needs a China Strategy

December 14, 2017

Bloomberg Kevin Gallagher To judge by the pomp and shuttle diplomacy, Latin America and China are best of friends… Expert quote: “The U.S. is distracted. The World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank have scaled back. No one else is offering this kind of financing that the Chinese are at the moment.” View full article

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As Beijing Joins Climate Fight, Chinese Companies Build Coal Plants

July 2, 2017

New York Times quoting Kevin Gallagher, Pardee School of Global Studies/ College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences “When China halted plans for more than 100 new coal-fired power plants this year, even as President Trump vowed to “bring back coal” in America, the contrast seemed to confirm Beijing’s new role as a leader in the […]

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As the US Retreats, China Is Taking the Lead on Green Energy

April 25, 2017

The Globalist By Kevin Gallagher, Pardee School of Global Studies “Finance ministers from across the world will converge on Washington this week for the annual meetings of the World Bank and IMF…” View full article. 

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Mexico’s Revenge

April 25, 2017

The Atlantic Kevin Gallagher, Pardee School of Global Studies “When donald trump first made sport of thumping Mexico—when he accused America’s neighbor of exporting rapists and “bad hombres,” when he deemed the country such a threat that it should be contained by a wall and so clueless that it could be suckered into paying for […]

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Latin American petro-states struggle with China debts, need new solutions

April 18, 2017

Dialogo Chino Kevin Gallagher, Pardee School of Global Studies “As Chinese loans continue to pour into Latin American countries, concerns over how this money is being spent and how will it ever be repaid are growing on both sides of the bargaining table…” Expert quote: “China can’t be the one to trigger [more] sustainability, but […]

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China Steps Into the Latin American Void Trump Has Left Behind

March 7, 2017

Foreign Policy By Kevin Gallagher, Pardee School/College of Arts & Sciences View full article (Subscription required)

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Is the U.S.’s Withdrawal, China’s Gain in Latin America?

March 2, 2017

ChinaFile by Kevin Gallagher, Pardee School of Global Studies “Latin Americans can’t afford to wait four years to see when the United States will be willing to have an honest and reciprocal conversation about economic prosperity in the Western Hemisphere…” View full article.   

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