A major contributor to public policy debates, Daniel Drache has written widely on globalization and the limits of markets, trade blocs, employment and economic integration. He has written or edited (with others) twelve books in the recent period. Among his recent publications are: The Market or the Public Domain: Global Governance and the Asymmetry of Power, Routledge, 2001; Health Reform: Public Success, Private Failure (Routledge 1999, and Terry Sullivan); States Against Markets: The Limits of Globalization (Routledge 1996, and Robert Boyer); and The Changing Workplace: Reshaping Canada’s Industrial Relations System (Lorimer 1994, and Harry Glasbeek)

His work has been recognized internationally and he has been a research associate at the European University Institute, Florence; a professor invité at the Centre pour la Recherche Economique et ses Applications-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CEPREMAP-CNRS), Paris; a visiting scholar at Macquarrie University, the University of Western Sydney and the Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales; and a guest lecturer at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). In June 2003, he was the Australia-Canada Millennium Lecturer in Sydney, Australia. He has won major Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) research awards and is currently principal investigator, along with co-investigators Seth Feldman and Fred Fletcher, of a SSHRC Research Development Initiative entitled, “Global Cultural Flows, New Information Technologies and Re-Imagining the National Community."

His current research is on the political economy of dissent and the end of trade determinism post-Cancun. He is examining the role of counterpublics, skeptics and contrarians as a worldwide phenomenon politicizing and mobilizing civil society. Most recently, he has focused his attention on the World Trade Organization, poverty eradication and the Doha Development Round.

Professor Drache is a regular commentator on national news for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and other networks. His latest book is entitled Borders Matter: Homeland Security and the Search for North America, Halifax: Fernwood Books, 2004. It is being translated into Spanish and French in 2007.