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Anne-Marie Slaughter

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Anne-Marie Slaughter, a former director of policy planning in the US State Department, is CEO of the think tank New America, Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, and the author of Renewal: From Crisis to Transformation in Our Lives, Work, and Politics (Princeton University Press, 2021).

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  1. How the World Can Keep Trump 2.0 in Check
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    How the World Can Keep Trump 2.0 in Check

    Mar 27, 2025 Anne-Marie Slaughter outlines five steps that foreign entities should take to counteract the US president’s radical agenda.

  2. Middle Powers and the Art of the Deal
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    Middle Powers and the Art of the Deal

    Jan 24, 2025 Anne-Marie Slaughter foresees the world under Donald Trump becoming like a bazaar, to the benefit of multi-aligned countries.

  3. How to End the Scourge of Maternal Mortality
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    How to End the Scourge of Maternal Mortality

    Nov 26, 2024 Anne-Marie Slaughter & Mary-Ann Etiebet propose a global impact hub that could develop measurable milestones and scale up effective solutions.

  4. A Summit Caught Between Past and Future
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    A Summit Caught Between Past and Future

    Sep 24, 2024 Thomas Hale & Anne-Marie Slaughter look past the platitudes in the UN’s Pact for the Future and glimpse the contours of a new multilateral system.

  5. Anne-Marie Slaughter on US polarization, the Ukraine war, AI, and more
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    Anne-Marie Slaughter on US polarization, the Ukraine war, AI, and more

    Sep 24, 2024 Anne-Marie Slaughter urges the EU to begin preparations for a prolonged, but not permanent, division of Ukraine, considers the prospect of “democratic artificial intelligence,” describes necessary reforms to US electoral systems, and more.

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    Trump’s Misguided Tariff Formula

    Shang-Jin Wei criticizes the administration's crude calculations, which disregard textbook macroeconomic principles.
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    The US Must Change Course on Myanmar

    Brahma Chellaney outlines a policy approach that would promote stability, rather than perpetuating criminality and violence.
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    Europe Must Move Faster to Defend Itself

    Anastassia Fedyk, et al. outline four steps European leaders can take to accelerate rearmament and mitigate the Russian threat.
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    Will the IMF Get Played by Javier Milei?

    Martín Guzmán

    In pursuing a new loan from the International Monetary Fund, Argentinian President Javier Milei's government has made no secret of its self-interested political motivations. If the world's lender of last resort falls for the ploy, it could suffer a loss of credibility from which it might not recover.

     worries that the Fund will damage its credibility by issuing another politically motivated loan to Argentina.
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    There Is No Method to Trump’s Tariff Madness

    Andrés Velasco sees no merit in any of the rationales the White House has advanced for launching a global trade war.
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    Navigating the Trump Storm

    Michael Spence

    With a variety of larger forces driving profound changes, the outlook for the global economy was cloudy even before Donald Trump's return to the White House added to the uncertainty. But one thing is clear: the previous era of global interdependence based on efficiency and mutually beneficial arrangements is over.

     considers the US administration's policy shake-up against the backdrop of larger global trends.
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    Up Against Trump’s Tariff Wall

    Ian Bremmer explains why US trade policy is tantamount to an unprecedented economic “own goal.”
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    Is a North-South Divide Opening in India?

    Shashi Tharoor fears that the government’s push to redraw the electoral map will favor poorer, more populous states.
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    American Suicide

    Joschka Fischer mourns the loss of the United States and the relative peace and prosperity that its global leadership enabled.

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