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Edoardo Campanella

Edoardo Campanella

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Edoardo Campanella, Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, is co-author (with Marta Dassù) of Anglo Nostalgia: The Politics of Emotion in a Fractured West (Oxford University Press, 2019).

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  1. America’s Many Chip Vulnerabilities
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    America’s Many Chip Vulnerabilities

    Mar 27, 2025 Edoardo Campanella & John Haigh explain why the Trump administration is making a strategic mistake with its approach to semiconductors.

  2. The US Election and the Crisis of Whiteness
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    The US Election and the Crisis of Whiteness

    Oct 24, 2024 Edoardo Campanella sees long-term demographic trends driving the country’s increasingly divisive politics.

  3. Venice’s Beauty Curse
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    Venice’s Beauty Curse

    Aug 26, 2024 Edoardo Campanella marvels at how an extractive tourism industry has crowded out investments in the iconic city’s future.

  4. Which AI Risks Matter?
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    Which AI Risks Matter?

    Feb 23, 2024 Edoardo Campanella considers three leading experts’ assessments of the technology’s future capabilities and their implications.

  5. Economic Self-Reliance Is a Dangerous Delusion
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    Economic Self-Reliance Is a Dangerous Delusion

    Jan 17, 2024 Edoardo Campanella thinks the push for inward-looking policies will inevitably lead to more global instability and fragmentation.

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    Trump’s Tariffs Will Accelerate America’s Economic Decline

    Kaushik Basu draws parallels between the administration’s policies and those that led to Argentina’s decades-long slump.
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    Trump, Tariffs, and the Fate of the Dollar

    Mark Blyth

    Donald Trump’s attempt to reindustrialize the US economy by eliminating trade deficits will undoubtedly cause pain and disruption on a massive scale. But it is important to remember that both major US political parties have abandoned free trade in pursuit of similar goals.

    argues that America’s protectionist policies reflect a global economic reordering that was already underway.
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    Trump’s Old World Order

    Ahmet Davutoğlu warns that the US administration’s reckless conduct may destroy the last vestiges of multilateral cooperation.
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    Crippling America’s Innovation Economy

    William H. Janeway

    Donald Trump and Elon Musk's reign of disruption is crippling research universities’ ability to serve as productive partners in innovation, thus threatening the very system that they purport to celebrate. The Chinese, who are increasingly becoming frontier innovators in their own right, will be forever grateful.

    warns that the pillars of US dynamism and competitiveness are being systematically toppled.
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    America’s AI Iron Curtain

    Soňa Muzikárová explains how US export controls are harming allies and potentially helping Russia and China.
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    What Rebalancing the US Economy Really Requires

    Glenn Hubbard thinks US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is neglecting the need for spending cuts in major federal programs.
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    America’s Voice No Longer Speaks for Democracy

    Heela Rasool-Ayub explains why authoritarians worldwide are celebrating Donald Trump’s renunciation of democratic advocacy.
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    Insurers Must Embrace Geospatial AI

    Pierre du Rostu touts the technology’s benefits for an industry that must shift its focus from paying claims to managing risk.
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    It’s Time to Abandon Trump’s Flawed Negotiation Playbook

    Michele Gelfand points out that the best dealmakers strive for win-win outcomes, not zero-sum Pyrrhic victories.

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