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Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Ruth Ben-Ghiat

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University, is the author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present (W.W. Norton & Company, 2020).

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  1. The New-Old Authoritarianism
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    The New-Old Authoritarianism

    Jun 10, 2024 Ruth Ben-Ghiat explains how Donald Trump and other “strongmen” leaders are dismantling democracy.

  2. The New-Old Authoritarianism
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    The New-Old Authoritarianism

    Jun 7, 2024 Ruth Ben-Ghiat explains how Donald Trump and other “strongmen” leaders are dismantling democracy.

  3. An Interview with Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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    An Interview with Ruth Ben-Ghiat

    Feb 23, 2021 Ruth Ben-Ghiat suggests how the Biden administration can combat democratic erosion, highlights the international nature of white supremacy, and draws lessons from Italy on how not to address corruption.

  4. American Democracy’s Moment of Truth
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    American Democracy’s Moment of Truth

    Nov 2, 2020 Ruth Ben-Ghiat explains why the impact that Donald Trump has had on American politics will not easily be reversed.

  5. The Trump Contagion
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    The Trump Contagion

    Mar 25, 2019 Jeffrey D. Sachs, et al. recommend five urgent steps to counter the grave threat the US president poses to global security.

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    The Trade Shifts Redefining Economic Development

    Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg & Michele Ruta consider the long-term implications of three major trends that could reshape globalization.
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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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