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Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis

Writing for PS since 2015
125 commentaries
5 videos & podcasts

Yanis Varoufakis, a former finance minister of Greece, is leader of the MERA25 party and Professor of Economics at the University of Athens. 

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  1. The Case Against European Rearmament
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    The Case Against European Rearmament

    Mar 6, 2025 Yanis Varoufakis argues that Europe's security depends above all on forging the democratic union that true strength requires.

  2. Technofeudalism Is War’s Handmaiden
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    Technofeudalism Is War’s Handmaiden

    Feb 6, 2025 Yanis Varoufakis explains how the rise of cloud capital is steering the world toward well-known strategic traps.

  3. China’s Trump Dilemma
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    China’s Trump Dilemma

    Jan 21, 2025 Yanis Varoufakis thinks the real choice facing Chinese leaders may be whether to challenge the dollar's hegemony head-on.

  4. The West Is Not Dying, but It Is Working on It
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    The West Is Not Dying, but It Is Working on It

    Dec 19, 2024 Yanis Varoufakis argues that Western power is alive and well, but the lofty values that once sustained it have been abandoned.

  5. America’s Trade Deficit Is Not Afraid of Donald Trump
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    America’s Trade Deficit Is Not Afraid of Donald Trump

    Dec 2, 2024 Yanis Varoufakis shows why the incoming US administration can’t eliminate the negative balance – and wouldn’t even if it could.

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    Developing Countries Need a New Strategy

    Rabah Arezki touts industrial policies that welcome multinational corporations' participation, but on fairer terms.
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    How the World Can Keep Trump 2.0 in Check

    Anne-Marie Slaughter outlines five steps that foreign entities should take to counteract the US president’s radical agenda.
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    How Trumpism Ends

    Chris Patten urges current and former policymakers to speak out against the US president’s reckless policies.
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    Inside Turkey’s Executive Coup

    Umut Özkırımlı

    It is too soon to tell whether the current wave of popular anger and disillusionment in Turkey will evolve into a coherent movement capable of mounting a credible opposition to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. But one thing should be obvious to the main opposition party: When the game is rigged, the only hope is to flip the board.

    explains why popular resistance to the Erdoğan regime has sidelined the opposition parties.
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    Can COP30 Succeed Where COP29 Failed?

    Montek Singh Ahluwalia says that the future of climate action depends on developed countries exceeding their financial pledges.
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    America’s Many Chip Vulnerabilities

    Edoardo Campanella & John Haigh explain why the Trump administration is making a strategic mistake with its approach to semiconductors.
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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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