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Dmitri Trenin

Dmitri Trenin

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Dmitri Trenin, a former director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, is the author, most recently, of Russia (Polity, 2019). 

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  1. War Games Are No Game
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    War Games Are No Game

    Sep 8, 2021 Dmitri Trenin, et al. call on NATO, Russian, and Chinese military leaders to activate neglected confidence-building mechanisms.

  2. China’s Victory in Ukraine
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    China’s Victory in Ukraine

    Jul 31, 2014 Dmitri Trenin says that only one major country stands to gain from Russia's conflict with the West.

  3. Securing the Sochi Olympics

    Securing the Sochi Olympics

    Feb 4, 2014 Dmitri Trenin warns that Russia's effort to prevent terrorist attacks at the Winter Olympics could leave the rest of the country vulnerable.

  4. Integrating Russia’s Post-Imperium
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    Integrating Russia’s Post-Imperium

    Nov 2, 2011 Dmitri Trenin

  5. Russia Hits the Reset Button
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    Russia Hits the Reset Button

    May 31, 2010 Dmitri Trenin

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    Trump at the Gates

    Joschka Fischer urges Europeans to recognize that they are now on their own in an increasingly dangerous world.
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    The End of Progress?

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Though the United States has long led the world in advancing basic science and technology, it is hard to see how this can continue under President Donald Trump and the country’s ascendant oligarchy. America’s rejection of Enlightenment values will have dire consequences.

     predicts that Donald Trump’s second administration will be defined by its rejection of Enlightenment values.
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    China’s Trump Dilemma

    Yanis Varoufakis

    Will the China hawks in Donald Trump’s administration railroad him into a confrontation that transcends tariffs and embraces financial sanctions of the type the US and the European Union imposed on Russia? If they do, China's leaders will have to decide whether to decouple from the dollar-based international monetary system.

     thinks the real choice facing Chinese leaders may be whether to challenge the dollar's hegemony head-on.
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    The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap

    Pascal Lamy, et al. explain how investments in African agri-food systems can advance many of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.
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    Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami hears echoes of the Monroe Doctrine in the US president's threats to acquire Greenland.
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    How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

    Glenn Hubbard urges policymakers to focus on the three pillars of increased productivity.
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    Trump’s First Test Will Be the Bond Market

    Jim O'Neill wonders if recent market signals will keep the new administration’s radicalism in check.
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    The TikTok Boomerang

    Angela Huyue Zhang thinks the US government's ban on the app has left it in an untenable position.

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