If sectoral trade flows obey structural gravity, countries' bilateral trade imbalances are the result of macro trade imbalances, “triangular trade”, or pairwise asymmetric trade barriers. Using data ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. The Joe Biden administration’s first major trade initiative, the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), is generating its most intensive ...

Powered by coal and iron, it transformed the nation into the world’s workshop, while its navy secured global commerce. The triangular trade of the 1600s — raw materials and enslaved Africans taken ...

This article was originally published by the Council on Foreign Relations on Aug. 1, 2025. One of the hardest jobs of a policymaker is to weigh trade-offs. Few policies are clean, absolute, and ...

After months of turmoil since U.S. President Donald Trump reignited his trade war with China, a deal between the world’s two biggest economies could be on the verge of pacifying globally upended ...

President Donald Trump, the dealmaker-in-chief, has said for weeks that at least one trade deal is imminent with one of the dozens of countries in active negotiations with the United States to avoid ...

I see memorialization as the physical manifestation of our collective experience, memory and history. Our engagement with these spaces allows us to simultaneously reach back into the past and project ...

The visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Addis Ababa this week marks more than a diplomatic milestone.

Sugar's history is far from sweet. What we now see as a basic pantry staple used to be a rare luxury. For centuries, it was ...