In a new article for the London Review of Books, economic historian Adam Tooze argues that the era of globalisation that existed up to the great financial crisis of 2008 has finally died and instead an era of great power politics has returned. This existed under Biden equally as it did under Trump's first and now second administration.

You can read the article here.

UPDATE

• I will be now be running a livestream Q&A for students on Friday November 22nd. You can access it here, subscribe to the channel to get your reminder.
• https://youtube.com/live/knBuNLBD-bU?feature=share (in case the link doesn't work)

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