Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Bob McCauley is a non-resident senior fellow at Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center and associate ...

Sagong Il, Honorary Chairman of the World Economy Research Institute, diagnosed that the global economy is falling into the ‘Kindleberger Trap’ due to an international leadership vacuum. He argued ...

CAMBRIDGE ― As US President-elect Donald Trump prepares his administration’s policy toward China, he should be wary of two major traps that history has set for him. The “Thucydides Trap,” cited by ...

The 2010s-20s are looking a lot like the 1930s. That’s the view of some serious Western commentators. I don’t know if they are right; I certainly hope not, given what happened after 1939 in Europe, ...

Henry Kissinger, the American geostrategy and foreign policy stalwart, in the book "On China" shows how China's national psyche is shaped by its 5,000-year-old written history and the mythology that ...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi delivers a speech at the China Development Forum 2017 in Beijing, capital of China, March 20, 2017. (Xinhua/Li Xin) BEIJING, March 20 (Xinhua) -- China and the United ...

Professor Joseph Nye Jr. raised an important new concept of the “Kindleberger trap” weeks ago. It follows late MIT professor Charles Kindleberger’s classical arguments that the Great Depression in the ...

The remedy for both the Thucydides and Kindleberger Traps is to promote an efficient and just multilateral system grounded in legitimacy and confidence in its rules, writes Mahmoud Mohieldin Caught ...

CAMBRIDGE – As US President-elect Donald Trump prepares his administration’s policy toward China, he should be wary of two major traps that history has set for him. The “Thucydides Trap,” cited by ...