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Ngaire Woods

Ngaire Woods

Writing for PS since 2013
62 commentaries
2 videos & podcasts

Ngaire Woods is Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford.

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  1. What If the US Leaves the IMF and the World Bank?
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    What If the US Leaves the IMF and the World Bank?

    Feb 20, 2025 Ngaire Woods thinks the Trump administration’s approach jeopardizes America’s geopolitical and economic interests.

  2. A Politics of Hope Is Our Best Hope
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    A Politics of Hope Is Our Best Hope

    Dec 30, 2024 Ngaire Woods highlights the need for governments to be more ambitious in addressing the causes of citizens’ frustrations.

  3. Working-Class Antiheroes
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    Working-Class Antiheroes

    Oct 21, 2024 Ngaire Woods advocates using domestic labor legislation that supports unionization – not tariffs – to protect workers.

  4. Do Political Leaders Deserve a Break?
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    Do Political Leaders Deserve a Break?

    Aug 28, 2024 Ngaire Woods cites research showing that fatigue erodes judgment, undermining officials' ability to make sound decisions.

  5. Why Young Europeans Are Embracing the Far Right
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    Why Young Europeans Are Embracing the Far Right

    Jun 28, 2024 Ngaire Woods urges policymakers to reconsider both their message and their medium to reach disaffected younger voters.

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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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    Asia Must Unite to Survive Trump 2.0

    Lee Jong-Wha highlights ways the region's economies can boost their resilience and global influence.
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    Europe and the Next World Order

    Sigmar Gabriel & Peter Eitel observe that the continent has once again become the fulcrum of global politics.
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    Trump’s $16 Trillion Trade Blind Spot

    Ricardo Hausmann identifies the fundamental flaw in the administration’s efforts to dismantle the postwar international order.
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    A World Turned Inside Out

    Stephen S. Roach

    The geostrategic shock that has accompanied Donald Trump’s return to the White House is the functional equivalent of a full-blown crisis. It is likely to have a lasting impact on the US and Chinese economies, and the contagion is almost certain to spread throughout the world through cross-border trade and capital flows.

     likens Donald Trump’s reversal of America’s global leadership role to a full-blown crisis, similar to COVID-19.
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    Jorge Heine on the BRICS, active non-alignment, the US dollar, and more

    Jorge Heine urges the Organization of American States to demonstrate leadership in Haiti, shows how small countries can implement a foreign policy based on active non-alignment, calls on China and Europe to diversify the global monetary system, and more.
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    Financial Inclusion Must Reach the Last Billion

    Wolfgang Fengler explains why economic growth alone is not enough to extend the ladder of opportunity to all.

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