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Understanding Trump’s Tariff Blunder

April 07, 2025

How and why Donald Trump's tariff war will impose heavy costs the United States.

By George R. Tyler

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Why Do States Criminalize Consumer Boycotts?

April 6, 2025

By Ezgi Başaran

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How and Why Poverty May Increase in Asia

April 4, 2025

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How Trump’s Trade Policy Resurrects COMECON, U.S.-Style

April 1, 2025

By Stephan Richter

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The First Day of a Darker Turkey: Could Your Country Be Next?

March 20, 2025

By Ezgi Başaran

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Putin, Trump and Kim: Love Is in the Air

February 23, 2025

By Alexei Bayer

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Democracy in Decline?

February 5, 2025

Rethinking Europe

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Germany is Not “Lurching to the Right”

February 26, 2025

By Denis MacShane

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Erdogan Forever: Behind Turkey’s Latest Crackdown

February 12, 2025

By Ezgi Başaran

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Rome: City of the Sinless?

January 19, 2025

By Benjamin MacShane

Rethinking America

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How Trump’s Trade Policy Resurrects COMECON, U.S.-Style

April 1, 2025

By Stephan Richter

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Trump’s Betrayal of the U.S.’s Social Contract and Global Standing

March 24, 2025

By Alon Ben-Meir

Global Democracy

The U.S. Founder’s Urgent Message for 2025: A Republic — If You Can Keep It

March 22, 2025

Rethinking Asia

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Vietnam’s Booming Consumer Class

February 14, 2025

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How China Loses Economic Steam and Global Appeal

January 28, 2025

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What Happened to the Asian Century?

January 16, 2025

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The Turkification of the United States of America (2017!)

March 25, 2025

By Stephan Richter

Global Pairings

What If Turkey Wanted Crimea Back?

March 17, 2025

By Alexei Bayer

Global Conflict

U.S. Demands on Ukraine: War Support for Profit?

February 18, 2025

By Ryan O’Connell

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Global Politics

Trump: Macron’s Puppet in the Pursuit of Europe’s Strategic Autonomy

March 10, 2025

By Stephan Richter

Global Politics

After Assad: The Hopeful Global Scenario

December 10, 2024

By Stephan Richter

Global Pairings

Donald “L.” (as in Louis) Trump: The Sun King Reloaded?

December 6, 2024

By Stephan Richter

Just The Facts

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How and Why Poverty May Increase in Asia

April 4, 2025

By The Globalist

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Will Germany’s New Government Tackle the Key Economic Challenges?

March 31, 2025

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Cocoa and Globalization

March 30, 2025

By The Globalist

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The Global History of Mustard

February 16, 2025

By Julia Watson

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Globalization and the Death of Blueberries

February 9, 2025

By Julia Watson

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Combatting Your Hangover: Global Culinary Solutions

December 31, 2024

By Julia Watson