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Trump’s Alaska Folly
Timothy Snyder, Project Syndicate
US President Donald Trump believes that foreign leaders can be dealt with like Americans, with fantastic promises and obnoxious bullying. But the empty offer of a “beautiful” future does not move dictators like Vladimir Putin, who has in mind his own specific…
Aug 17, 2025, 5:06 PM
The Trump Global Fallout
Laura Tyson, Project Syndicate
Donald Trump’s second-term policies have already been detrimental to America’s economy and national security. While his administration has delivered a massive gift to China, there is still a chance for Europeans and others mourning the loss of US global leade…
Jun 15, 2025, 12:05 AM
Trump Is Creating a Post-Western World
Amitav Acharya, Project Syndicate
Some might hope that Donald Trump’s alienation of US allies can be reversed under the next administration. Yet regardless of how his trade wars, territorial claims, and coercive tactics play out, the damage to the West as an idea and organizing principle of w…
Jun 15, 2025, 12:05 AM
The Future of American Soft Power
Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Project Syndicate
If Donald Trump thinks he can compete with China while weakening trust among American allies, asserting imperial aspirations, cutting aid budgets, and otherwise diminishing American soft power, he is likely to fail. Though restoring what he has destroyed will…
Jun 15, 2025, 12:05 AM
Exporting the Oligarchy
Gabriel Zucman, Project Syndicate
As US income taxation comes under threat, and as the effects of US policies are exported abroad, the concentration of wealth could accelerate worldwide. But it is not too late for other countries to step in and halt the globalization of plutocracy.
Jun 15, 2025, 12:05 AM
The Post-Liberal Disorder
Benn Steil, Project Syndicate
The net effect of Trump’s wayward tariffs, refusal to confirm WTO appellate judges, and repeated invocation of “national security” to cloak mercantilism is likely to erode global trade norms that were built up over eight decades. The result will be a rapid di…
Jun 15, 2025, 12:05 AM
Multilateralism in a Post-American World
Joel Ng, Project Syndicate
Multilateral organizations may be facing their most severe challenges to date, but the multilateralists have not suddenly disappeared. Many leaders still recognize the inescapable logic of the modern world, and bottom-up efforts at rule-making and regional co…
Jun 15, 2025, 12:05 AM
A New Nuclear Calculus?
Thorsten Benner, Project Syndicate
With Donald Trump's return to the White House having cast doubt on longstanding security guarantees, some policymakers and strategists across the American alliance network are considering whether they will need their own nuclear deterrence. Is the global nucl…
Jun 15, 2025, 12:05 AM
What China Wants
Yu Jie, Project Syndicate
Notwithstanding Chinese leaders' stated global vision, the regime's diplomacy must serve the interests of its domestic political economy first and foremost. Filling a sudden void in global leadership left by America's withdrawal is not necessarily aligned wit…
Jun 15, 2025, 12:05 AM
The Resilience of World Trade
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Project Syndicate
For all the proclamations of the end of free trade, the global flow of goods and services has reached new highs in recent years, and the global trade-to-GDP ratio remains substantially higher than it was in 2000. While tariffs pose a major challenge to the sy…
Jun 15, 2025, 12:05 AM