Faltering Multilateralism: Today, Let’s start with Trade
It would be hard to make this stuff up. When I was deep into trade policy issues in the late 80s and early 90’s before China’s accession to the WTO,…
Multilateralism: It is Just Largely Talk Now
While you will see that the main focus of this Substack is on multilateralism, and its current failure, I couldn’t let Trump’s disrespect for the President of South Africa, Cyril…
A Tribute to Joseph S. Nye Jr. and Multilateralism Threatened: The G20 in South Africa.
He passed on May 6th. He was a longstanding leader in international relations. So at 88 Joseph Nye, Joe to most in the international relations community, passed away. Joe was…
Is there Order? The Growing Confusion
As we’ve already pointed out in a previous Substack Post from Alan’s Newsletter, focusing on Trump’s dramatic tariffs, reveals a growing global order confusion. Do we have a continuing ‘great…
What is This? Trump and His Tariffs
With the 100 days now reached, and just passed by Trump and his second administration, there is a desperate search to uncover a logic and goal or goals in Trump’s…