global political economy

As we saw during the last financial crisis, the “smart” players aren’t always so smart. One thing we know: The world economy will never be the same.

A major outbreak and looming recession in the United States has transformed the 2020 campaign—and could have major consequences for the future of great power politics.

Paul Krugman and other mainstream trade experts are now admitting that they were wrong about globalization: It hurt American workers far more than they thought it would. Did America’s free market economists help put a protectionist demagogue in the White House?

A Chinese-financed project to connect the Estonian and Finnish capitals has hit a snag as Europe ponders how to deal with Beijing’s economic heft.

Despite inequality, debt, and a tariff war, the U.S. economy is still the strongest.

The economic blow to Tehran will be compounded if it fails to comply with global financial transparency rules.

On the podcast: The United States’ last big trade war was in 1930. It did not end well.

Endless elections, unqualified leaders, uninformed voters, and short-term thinking are impeding economic growth.

Trump thinks he has a strong hand. In fact, Washington is far more vulnerable than Beijing.

Mohammed bin Salman's consolidation of power is making Saudi Arabia a more unpredictable U.S. ally than ever before.

Once a shining beacon, the United States now offers an excuse for behaving badly.

"Made in Germany" used to mean reliability. Now it means collusion.

On militarism, exhaustion, and decadence.

One country’s moral evangelism is the rest of the world’s intolerable smugness.

Unfortunately, that’s exactly what the Trump administration seems to be doing.

The good times may not last long, the IMF warns.

If it ain’t broke, sure, try to fix it.

Spoiler alert: The United States gets the biggest slice of the pie.

Liberal democracy and market capitalism are taken for granted as the best form of government. That bubble may be about to burst.