Francine McKenzie

I am an international historian interested in the history of global trade, the workings of international organizations, the British Commonwealth, Canadian involvement in world affairs, and global order. I am the author/co-editor of 5 books and have written extensively on these different areas of interest.
I am Canadian and completed my BA and MA at the University of Toronto. My doctorate at Cambridge explored the British Commonwealth (Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa) during the Second World War, with a focus on their trade relations which I in turn used to understand the drivers, interests, values and identities that defined their relationship with one another and with Britain.

My forthcoming book with CUP is called GATT and Global Order in the Postwar Era. I explore the institutional and international history of a significant but incompletely understood organization through case studies of the Cold War, the EEC and regionalism, agriculture, and development. I explain how economic and political factors and objectives defined trade policies, relations, and negotiations, explore the dynamic between nationalism and internationalism, show that the liberal order was progressive and conservative, fluid and rigid, and demonstrate that there were multiple and competing visions of global order.