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How do you see the ideas of domestic positioning and like-minded countries working in the G7?
"Like-mindedness" only goes so far when domestic politics get involved. Draper explains the tension between high-level international diplomacy and local, "low politics" realities. Using the stalled Australia-EU trade agreement over agricultural quotas as a prime example, he illustrates why international economic agreements ultimately live or die based on a leader's ability to keep their domestic constituencies happy.
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