
Harold James
Harold James is Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University. A specialist on German economic history and on globalization, he is a co-author of The Euro and The Battle of Ideas, and the author of The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle, Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm, Making the European Monetary Union, The War of Words, and, most recently, Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization (Yale University Press, 2023).
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Alternatives to Trump’s Russia Appeasement
Alternatives to Trump’s Russia Appeasement
Feb 14, 2025 Harold James explains how France and Britain can guarantee Ukraine’s security now that America has effectively surrendered.
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How Trump’s Anti-Globalism Could Backfire
How Trump’s Anti-Globalism Could Backfire
Jan 27, 2025 Harold James thinks the new administration's approach could jeopardize the foreign capital flows that America depends on.
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Shock Therapy for Multilateralism
Shock Therapy for Multilateralism
Jan 2, 2025 Harold James considers what another Donald Trump presidency will, and will not, mean for global cooperation.
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Is America the Next Soviet Union?
Is America the Next Soviet Union?
Nov 28, 2024 Harold James sees parallels between the United States’ political dysfunction and that of its twentieth-century adversary.
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Fascism in Our Time
Fascism in Our Time
Oct 28, 2024 Harold James emphasizes the similarity of US business leaders’ behavior to that of their counterparts in 1930s Germany.