The Politics of Globalization

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There are two ways of thinking about the politics behind globalization. There's what I call small bore protectionism, some of it can be quite big. The biggest example was Donald Trump's trade policy which was not actually addressed at anything big strategically. Trade becomes essentially an instrument of and a consequence of bigger conflicts, possibly even war. And we've seen that most dramatically, as you mentioned, with the Ukraine war.

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