Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

A ‘golden age’ of global free trade is over. Smaller alliances can meet the moment

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par Armin Steinbach, Professor of Law and Economics, HEC Paris Business School

The global trade landscape is shifting, and not in the way free traders had hoped. For decades, the belief that economic openness could foster peace and stability reigned supreme. Trade, it was argued, could transform authoritarian regimes into more peaceful players. But Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shattered this way of thinking. Rather than mourning the end of a multilateralism based on states’ commitments to jointly agreed trade rules, we should see it as a necessary adjustment to a world where economic security takes precedence over market efficiency, and resilience over cost minimization.

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