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Carla Norrlöf

Carla Norrlöf

Writing for PS since 2020
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Carla Norrlöf, Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, is a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.

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  1. How Much “Weaponization” Can the Global Economy Take?
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    How Much “Weaponization” Can the Global Economy Take?

    Mar 21, 2025 Carla Norrlöf worries that major powers’ understandable reliance on economic coercion will go too far.

  2. Trump, Bitcoin, and the Future of the Dollar
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    Trump, Bitcoin, and the Future of the Dollar

    Mar 11, 2025 Carla Norrlöf doubts the US administration can preserve the greenback’s status while pursuing its trade and crypto policies.

  3. Tariff Man’s Risky Bet
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    Tariff Man’s Risky Bet

    Feb 4, 2025 Carla Norrlöf thinks Donald Trump's trade policies will undermine the very goals they aim to achieve.

  4. The Scramble for Syria
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    The Scramble for Syria

    Dec 12, 2024 Carla Norrlöf explains how America and its allies should respond to the demise of the country's longstanding dictatorship.

  5. The Decline and Fall of the Petrodollar?
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    The Decline and Fall of the Petrodollar?

    Jul 5, 2024 Carla Norrlöf considers whether Saudi Arabia would ever move away from invoicing its oil trade in US dollars.

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    Developing Countries Need a New Strategy

    Rabah Arezki touts industrial policies that welcome multinational corporations' participation, but on fairer terms.
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    How the World Can Keep Trump 2.0 in Check

    Anne-Marie Slaughter outlines five steps that foreign entities should take to counteract the US president’s radical agenda.
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    How Trumpism Ends

    Chris Patten urges current and former policymakers to speak out against the US president’s reckless policies.
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    Inside Turkey’s Executive Coup

    Umut Özkırımlı

    It is too soon to tell whether the current wave of popular anger and disillusionment in Turkey will evolve into a coherent movement capable of mounting a credible opposition to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. But one thing should be obvious to the main opposition party: When the game is rigged, the only hope is to flip the board.

     explains why popular resistance to the Erdoğan regime has sidelined the opposition parties.
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    Can COP30 Succeed Where COP29 Failed?

    Montek Singh Ahluwalia says that the future of climate action depends on developed countries exceeding their financial pledges.
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    America’s Many Chip Vulnerabilities

    Edoardo Campanella & John Haigh explain why the Trump administration is making a strategic mistake with its approach to semiconductors.
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    What Trump’s Tariff Critics Are Getting Wrong

    Lori Wallach laments the Democratic Party’s misguided criticism of a potentially effective policy tool.
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    Europe’s Security Depends on a European Energy Union

    Ana Palacio advocates a pragmatic approach to reviving the EU’s competitiveness and bolstering its strategic autonomy.
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    Authoritarianism Is Turkey’s Biggest Economic Risk

    Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan

    More than just a popular mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu is a national symbol of the political pluralism and democratic possibility that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has sought to quash. Given the precarious state of the Turkish economy, his sudden arrest and imprisonment may prove to be the last straw.

     believes the current mass protests are about more than the arrest of the country’s leading opposition figure.

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