News — “Economists can explain the negative effects of a tariff and who the winners and losers will be but what President Trump is doing with the tariffs directed at Mexico and Canada is more about foreign policy than economics, linking migration and the drug trade to tariff policy as a negotiation tactic. It’s a risky game that easily could backfire, especially if we get into a full-blown trade war in North America that then spreads around the globe,” said James Hollifield, professor of political science at SMU.
Hollifield is available for media interviews about this topic and can be reached at (214) 768-2825 and [email protected].
, acting director of the John Goodwin Tower Center for Public Policy and International Affairs and professor of political science at SMU.
214-768-2825, [email protected]
Hollifield can discuss:
- Foreign economic and trade policy
- Refugee and asylum policy
- Immigration
- Global migration
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