Past Event:

16th May 2025

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Professor Jeffry Frieden in conversation with ASR’s co-founder, David Bowers to explore the following questions: 
 
•    Are there any historical parallels with the challenges to globalisation that we see today?
•    How does today compare to the period of deglobalisation that occurred in the first half of 20th century?
•    What was the historical background to the American turn to unilateralism (i.e. from McKinley to the present)
•    How do we understand the goals of the Administration’s trade policy?
•    What does the Administration’s trade policy portend for the future of the international trading system?
•    What are the financial implications of the Administration’s policies, both generally and with respect to monetary and financial policy.
•    What are the Administration’s goals with respect to the international standing and role of the dollar?
•    What are the implications of Administration trade and other policy for the future of the international monetary system?
 
Jeffry Frieden is Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science at Columbia University. He specializes in the politics of international economic relations. 
Frieden is the author of Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century (2007; second updated edition 2020); Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy (2015); and the co-author (with Menzie Chinn) of Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery (2012). Frieden is also the author of Debt, Development, and Democracy: Modern Political Economy and Latin America, 1965-1985 (1992), of Banking on the World: The Politics of American International Finance (1987), and the co-author or co-editor of over a dozen other books on related topics. Do take a look at Jeffry Frieden's piece in the Bruegel Essay and Lecture Series: Will Global Capitalism Fall Again?