In 1917, in the aftermath of the sinking of U.S. merchant ships, President Woodrow Wilson told Congress in his request for a declaration of war on Germany that “the world must be safe for democracy...

In a new book, Niklas Swanström, Fredrik Erixon and Mrittika Huha Sarkar take a deeper look at key geoeconomics issues and ask what the US and the EU can do to improve economic security in a world...

By acclamation in Europe and USA, globalisation is either dead or fundamentally changing. Yet much resulting government action, such as subsidies and extra-territorial regulation, is not new, and...

Fredrik Erixon talks to Erik van der Marel about what kind of changes are arising in the global economy and in globalisation itself. They touch upon the notion of...

Western liberal globalisation needs a reboot. Over the past years, the West and its institutions have distanced themselves from the outside world, while becoming entangled in their own economic...

In this online conversation Jacki Davis talks to Jörgen Warborn, a Member of the European Parliament and its Committee on International Trade. They discuss the importance of...

The response of the West to the Russian war in Ukraine has been to isolate the Russian economy. And although it might seem like they have been successful, given the scale and severity of the...

With the rapidity of events in the last month full analysis of the long-term implications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for global politics or economics feels premature, especially given the...

In response to sanctions levied by the US after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russia has effectively halted the supply of key rocket engines to the US. Since the 1990s, Russia has supplied 122...

This piece was co-authored with Isabel Pérez del Puerto, a journalist and communicator in financing for development.  In the last quarter of 2021, fear of Covid-19 was temporarily overtaken by...