South China Seas

Radio interview where I discuss issue of South China Seas and China- US relations in a time of Trump

https://soundcloud.com/radiosputnik/south-china-sea-dispute-can-figure-into-broader-bilateral-talks-and-access-to-markets-john-short

Travels in Central America

Fishermen in Santa Marta, Colombia

Cartagena, Colombia

Curacao

Rainforest resident in Costa Rica

New locks, Panama Canal

(All photos © John Rennie Short)

Globalization and its Discontents

My essay on globalization and its discontents first appeared in The Conversation. It was republished in Hippo Reads, Newsweek, PBS Newshour,  Raw Story, Salon and  US News and World Report.

Collapse of TPP and South China Sea Disputes

Interviewed about East Asia, APEC meeting, collapse of TPP and disputes in South China Seas. The interview by Sputnik Radio is available here.

Election Analysis 2016

Have a chapter in new book analyzing the 2016 US Election. Here is my chapter on the politics of de-legitimacy.  The text, with 83 different contributors all trying to make sense of it all, is here.

CityLab in Miami

I spent two days in Miami at the CityLab conference. Really interesting. Lots of very smart people: city mayors and politicians; not for profit organizations doing good work; private market folks looking to make money in funding socially responsible ventures. After the dry desiccation of most academic conferences this was a fertile setting for a frank exchange of ideas and information.
Here are some photos from Miami and Miami Beach.

Miami (©John Rennie Short)

Miami (©John Rennie Short)

Miami (©John Rennie Short)

Miami Beach (©John Rennie Short)

Container ship sailing into Miami (©John Rennie Short)

Arguments for permanent site of Summer Olympics: radio discussion

I was interviewed by the CBC radio show The Current. The topic: should we have a permanent site for the Olympic Games?  I and an Olympic Games historian, Robert K Barney from Western University, debated the issue. Sometimes, in these radio interviews your comments are edited down to a few phrases or sometime left out all together, as happened to me when I was interviewed a month ago by the BBC. I heard some of my arguments but not in my voice or even with a mention. This CBC program is a rare case of allowing the interviewees enough space to make their arguments. You can access the program here.  

Olympic Park in Montreal (© John Rennie Short)