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Antara Haldar

Antara Haldar

Writing for PS since 2019
41 commentaries
1 videos & podcasts

Antara Haldar, Associate Professor of Empirical Legal Studies at the University of Cambridge, is a visiting faculty member at Harvard University and the principal investigator on a European Research Council grant on law and cognition.

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  1. What Is MAGAnomics?
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    What Is MAGAnomics?

    Feb 10, 2025 Antara Haldar tries to make sense of the new US administration's internally contradictory economic-policy program.

  2. COVID’s Lessons Have All Been Forgotten
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    COVID’s Lessons Have All Been Forgotten

    Dec 30, 2024 Antara Haldar laments the world's return to business as usual without having absorbed anything essential from the pandemic.

  3. Trump’s Victory Over the Rule of Law
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    Trump’s Victory Over the Rule of Law

    Dec 11, 2024 Antara Haldar considers whether a defining component of American democracy has been lost for good.

  4. Why Do Countries Prosper?
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    Why Do Countries Prosper?

    Nov 4, 2024 Antara Haldar considers what this year’s Nobel Prize-winning economic research gets right, and what it overlooks.

  5. The Bloody Path of Alberto Fujimori’s Neoliberalism
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    The Bloody Path of Alberto Fujimori’s Neoliberalism

    Oct 4, 2024 Antara Haldar assesses the former Peruvian president’s legacy of free-market reform and death-squad dictatorship.

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    A Reformed WHO Should Make Its Case to America

    Gordon Brown wants to reassure the Trump administration that a revamped organization could serve US and global interests.
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    The Age of Multipolarization

    Tobias Bunde & Sophie Eisentraut think a better future depends on whether a world with more poles can find ways to mitigate dangerous divisions.
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    Will US Export Restrictions Work?

    Barry Eichengreen

    Perhaps US efforts to cut off China’s access to advanced semiconductors will be more successful than analogous restrictions on tech exports to France in the 1960s. But we now have at least one data point – DeepSeek – that suggests otherwise.

    questions the effectiveness of efforts to limit China’s access to advanced semiconductors.
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    Trump’s Trade War Is About More Than Trade

    Nancy Qian considers the domestic and global implications of the new US administration’s tariff policies.
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    What Is MAGAnomics?

    Antara Haldar tries to make sense of the new US administration's internally contradictory economic-policy program.
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    PS Events: AI Action Summit

    PS editors present the AI Action Summit event.
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    Europe Can and Must Resist Trump

    Zaki Laïdi explains how the European Union should respond to American imperial nationalism.
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    Bending the Arc of AI Development Toward Shared Progress

    Anne Bouverot outlines the French government's objectives for the AI Action Summit in Paris.
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    Developing Countries Need a New Approach to Long-Term Financing

    Hannah Wanjie Ryder & Kate Hampton propose reforms that would facilitate low-interest lending to fund critical climate and development goals.

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