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Todd Nathaniel Tucker (born 1979) is an American academic, political scientist, and political commentator who is director of governance studies at the Roosevelt Institute, where he specializes in the study of trade agreements and international law.
Tucker was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of Baptist missionaries who worked in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A Gates Scholar, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from George Washington University and a PhD from the University of Cambridge.
His work focuses on the legal, economic and political implications of the World Trade Organization (WTO), North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and other trade agreements and debt relief issues.
He is a media commentator on international economic and policy issues who has been cited and published by radio, print and Internet outlets such as the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The Nation, Dissent Magazine, Foreign Policy In Focus, and other publications.
In 2018, his book Judge Knot was published by Anthem Press.
He was research director of Public Citizen…
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