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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. Europe’s Next Gas Crisis
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    Europe’s Next Gas Crisis

    Mar 6, 2023 Edoardo Campanella explains how the continent can prepare for an all-but-inevitable supply squeeze.

  2. The Microchips Are Down
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    The Microchips Are Down

    Jan 13, 2023 Edoardo Campanella recounts how semiconductors became both economically and geopolitically central to today's world.

  3. Saudi Arabia Swings Toward Russia
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    Saudi Arabia Swings Toward Russia

    Oct 13, 2022 Edoardo Campanella explains the broader implications of the Kingdom’s decision to embrace its swing-producer role.

  4. Understanding the US-China Rivalry
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    Understanding the US-China Rivalry

    Aug 12, 2022 Edoardo Campanella reviews five recent books on the recent history, and worrisome future, of the Sino-American relationship.

  5. Nostalgia Dies Last
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    Nostalgia Dies Last

    May 3, 2022 Edoardo Campanella explains how and why appeals to an illusory past will continue to shape politics in the years ahead.

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    Hell in the Holy Land

    Carl Bildt fears that the stage is set for another major violent conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
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    The Fed Must Not Flinch

    Michael R. Strain urges the US central bank to continue raising interest rates, despite signs of financial-sector fragility.
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    Reimagining Development

    Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng argue that grassroots engagement and social enterprise are crucial to achieving countries' aspirations.
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    What the World Bank Can Do About Climate Change

    Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg explains how the institution can maximize its contribution to the global net-zero agenda.
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    Richard Haass on Russia, Taiwan, and US democracy

    Richard Haass explains what caused the Ukraine war, urges the West to scrutinize its economic dependence on China, proposes ways to reverse the dangerous deterioration of democracy in America, and more.
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    Price Stability vs. Financial Stability?

    Willem H. Buiter

    If the US Federal Reserve raises its policy interest rate by as much as is necessary to rein in inflation, it will most likely further depress the market value of the long-duration securities parked on many banks' balance sheets. So be it.

    thinks central banks can achieve both, despite the occurrence of a liquidity crisis amid high inflation.
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    Fifty Years of Floating Currencies

    Jeffrey Frankel

    The half-century since the official demise of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates has shown the benefits of what replaced it. While some may feel nostalgic for the postwar monetary system, its collapse was inevitable, and what looked like failure has given rise to a remarkably resilient regime.

    explains why the shift toward exchange-rate flexibility after 1973 was not a policy failure, as many believed.
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    What Do America’s Spies Really Think About China?

    Kent Harrington thinks the intelligence community’s annual threat assessment should have delved deeper on the issue.
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    Waking Up to the World’s Water Crisis

    Quentin Grafton, et al. see three overarching priorities for the first global water conference in almost a half-century.

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