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Daniel W. Drezner & Elmira Bayrasli
consider whether the pandemic will be the final nail in the coffin of the Westphalian system, built on the sovereignty of the nation-state.
Opinion Has ItJul 28, 2020Daniel W. Drezner & Elmira Bayrasli
consider whether the pandemic will be the final nail in the coffin of the Westphalian system, built on the sovereignty of the nation-state.
Opinion Has ItJul 14, 2020Lisa D. Cook & Elmira Bayrasli
discuss the lack of diversity in economics, and its effects on US policy over the last century.
Opinion Has ItJun 16, 2020Minxin Pei & Elmira Bayrasli
discuss where China’s crackdown in Hong Kong will lead, and how it will affect the legitimacy of the Communist Party of China.
Opinion Has ItJun 4, 2020Khalil Gibran Muhammad & Elmira Bayrasli
discuss the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man, and its aftermath.
Opinion Has ItMay 5, 2020Michael Ignatieff & Elmira Bayrasli
discuss the emergence of authoritarian tendencies as countries race to combat the coronavirus.
Opinion Has ItMar 31, 2020Frank Snowden & Elmira Bayrasli
discuss how global health crises have restructured societies in the past, and what lessons we can take from them in dealing with COVID-19.
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s incendiary anti-China speech in late July provides a useful guide to the official thinking underlying the burgeoning Sino-American cold war. But Pompeo’s Christian millenarian worldview is not necessary to explain the two sides’ battle for technological supremacy.
With governments spending trillions of dollars amid the COVID-19 crisis, there is no better time to revisit the thinking of John Maynard Keynes and the people who influenced him. Recent books about the great economist and the young Cambridge genius Frank Ramsey offer the complete tour.
reviews recent books on Frank Ramsey, John Maynard Keynes, and a highly consequential meeting of minds.
